This documentary’s title is at least a little contradictory, because the four people it’s about, all cultural touchstones and pioneers for transgender rights, really are New York.
At least if we mean the real New York, which has naught to do with its status as a business center. Gustavo Sánchez, the Spanish director, spent a decade chronicling the lives of Amanda Lepore, Sophia Lamar, Chloe Dzubilo and T De Long.
Lepore and Lamar emerged from the milieu of what were once called “club kids,” while Dzubilo was a punk rock band leader (her group was called the Transisters, very clever) who became an AIDS activist for the same reason so many other AIDS activists did: because she had to.