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There is a raw, dangerous yet distinctly unapologetic demeanor to the grainy archival footage in the documentary film The Stroll, now streaming on HBO, where transgender sex workers bravely walk the streets of New York City and solicit potential customers cruising by in their cars. Winner of the Special Jury Award – Clarity of Vision at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, The Stroll is the story of director Kristen Lovell’s experience living on the streets in the ‘90s and making money as a sex worker in the Meatpacking District of lower Manhattan.
When Lovell began her transition in New York in the 1990s she was fired from her job, a common occurrence for transgender women of color. Lacking other professional opportunities, and to make ends meet, she began doing sex work in an area known as “the stroll.”
“It’s where trans women congregated and forged a deep camaraderie to protect each other from harassment and violence” on those lower Manhattan streets at the time, as HBO notes. Now just a historical symbol, today’s gentrified Meatpacking District is neither a meat trade hub (save for a few original meat companies now located in Chelsea Market), nor a place to do business for transgender sex workers.
For a number of reasons, Lovell wanted to move on from sex work.
“I couldn’t go on another 10 years of this [sex work],” she says. “I was actively trying to make the changes and gain employment as a trans woman. I wanted to become a filmmaker and set out on that course as my next career path, and I did.”
The Stroll marks Lovell’s directorial debut and she teamed up with filmmaker Zackary Drucker (HBO’s The Lady and The Dale) to co-direct the documentary. She says she knew Drucker would be the right person to help glue
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Hello and welcome to the Scene 2 Seen podcast. I am Valerie Complex, and today we’re talking about the HBO documentary The Stroll with its directors Kristen Lovell (in her directorial debut), and Zackary Drucker, and one of the film’s subjects Carey Smith about the making of the film, how “The Stroll” became a tight knit community, and the repercussions of changes that exist in the Meatpacking District today. Here is a bit more info regarding today’s guest!
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