Peruvian Film Director Portrays an Example for LGBT Youths

Peruvian Film Director Portrays an Example for LGBT Youths
 It’s a story of a family like any other, with its challenges, achievements, laughter and tears. It’s the life of a Mexican single mom bringing up her kids in the US, including one transgender child,” Alencastre told EFE from Los Angeles before taking off for Lima to debut the movie there. “I was filming Zoey’s 13th and 14th years...just when they won a lawsuit against her elementary school to keep it from expelling her for saying she was a transgender girl,” he said. With the help of her mother Ofelia Barba, her older sister Letty and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Zoey avoided expulsion from school in Downey, California, revealed her case to the world and set a precedent for other school boards.


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