The Stroll is a staggering work of conjuration, revealing the trans history and lives in and around New York’s Meatpacking District. panther_BL's review of the HBO documentary:
The Stroll
is a ghost story. As we walk with Kristen and her fellow former sex workers along what they used to call “The Stroll”—their little section of 14th Street in New York City’s meatpacking district where transwomen once lived, worked and formed a community—the spirits of the past emerge from the margins.
This is a documentary that acknowledges the traumas and dangers of sex work while dedicating more time to the necessities of sex work, the risks and rewards, and the bond that transwomen form by seeing themselves as both family and coworkers. That bond became the bulwark of survival as New York endured the AIDS crisis, 9/11 and the Guliani/Bloomberg administrations, whose policies dramatically increased transwomen’s criminality.
With this in mind, Lovell makes one thing clear: This is a trans film. It’s not a gay film, and it’s not a queer film that talks about “all walks of life” and surreptitiously privileges the cis experience. That would be too much like how queer history has so often been written.
Many in the Gay Liberation movement perceived transwomen and sex workers as “criminal” and “confused,” and they were marshaled to the side in order to present a whitewashed front that would appease the dominant culture. This has never gone away. We still see cis gays wanting to “
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