3/10 7:45 PM San Jose Repertory Theatre, 3/11 4:45 PM San Jose Repertory Theatre

In October of 2002, a group of young men and women socializing in an abandoned house discovered that one of the attractive young girls they’d been hanging out and fooling around with was biologically male. The men in the group became outraged and beat and strangled the girl to death. Her name was Gwen Araujo, and the case made headlines across the nation. Director Shelly Prevost has gathered interviews from Gwen’s family, experts on transgender issues, lawyers on both sides of the murder trial, and folks on the street to examine not only the events and the trial of Gwen’s murderers but the implications of the murder and the way our culture views gender. What does it mean to be a man? What does it mean to be a woman? How do we behave when our expectations are challenged?
This important film is of particular interest to Bay Area residents, as the murder took place in Newark, just a little ways up the freeway from the screenings here at Cinequest.