Focus / Events
In German.
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Swiss Premiere Documentary
Some of these 14- to 22-year-old boys wear stilettos or carry Louis-Vuitton bags, others use lipstick or mascara. As discriminated gays in Washington D.C. they also carry knives, knuckle-dusters and pepper spray, as they are known to have been shot at, beaten or raped. Themselves former victims of hate crimes, they have joined forces in a violent gangster group named «Check It», and for ten years now have been fighting against society’s ignorance and discrimination in the US-Capital, often on the thin line between legality and illegality.
A moving, profound and encouraging documentary about poverty, prostitution and fighting spirit in the Afro-American milieu.