Jenny Petit-Frère

The film entitled “Disclosure” is about transgender people in today’s culture and their lives. Although i was only able to watch the trailer. Watching it reminded me one of the worst films i have ever seen. The name of the film is entitled “Boys don’t cry” is about a female who fail in love with another woman. However, one of them have decided to be a lesbian without the other partner knowing. Things took a different turn at the end when people found out she was lying about her sex. She had her girlfriend thinking that she was a man. She even changed her identity. When her lovers’ friends discovered this, she was raped and murdered. The trans man’s man in the movie was Brandon Teena and the girlfriend’s name was Lana. This movie is inspired by a true event that happened. After watching this movie, I am double sided because although i feel bad for Brandon for being raped, beaten and later murdered, I also don’t think she should have lied about her identity and pretended to be a man. I feel like this is what led to her death. Another person this reminded of is Jazz Jennings. Jazz Jennings is an American YouTube personality and LGBT rights activist. On her YouTube channel she describes how challenging it was for her to transition. 

I believe that sometimes the LGBT community forces people to accept them. Many people are not in support of lesbians, transgenders, and gays. I feel like the LGBT community is a little similar to what african americans because we were fighting for our rights, for our voices to be heard, and for the discrimination to end. Like the  LGBT community African-Americans also get treated differently from everyone else. Many of our black men get shot because of police brutality, get sentenced to jail for years while a white man would get a couple of years for committing the same crime. Therefore the LGBT community and the black community have a lot in common because both communities are targets. 

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