QUEEN OF LAPA – Review by Diane Carson

Luana, a sex worker since age, is a nationally recognized activist who established a safe hostel where transgender sex workers to live and work. Filmmakers Theodore Collatos and Carolina Monnerat hang out in the hostel, following the ladies day to day, overhearing conversations, watching brief performances and visiting the streets. What becomes obvious, and as one says, “We’re like a family. . . we cry, we love, we fight.”

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