Sunday, August 25 • 7:30pm – 8:43pm
73 mins
Documentary
Larger-than-life actress, cabaret performer, activist, and proud sex professional since the age of eleven, Luana Muniz – arguably one of Brazil’s most famous transgender personalities – shaped a new reality in her hostel by providing a safe working environment for generations of young transgendered girls in neighborhood of Lapa in Rio de Janeiro. Queen of Lapa explores the women’s day-to-day lives, quests for love, the Brazilian political climate, housemate rivalries, all under matriarch Muniz’s watchful and guiding eye.

SHOUT Programming is sponsored by AIDS Alabama.