*PHOTOS OF ANGIE Highly Recommended by Video Librarian! ★★★1/2*

PHOTOS OF ANGIE tells the tragic story of Angie Zapata, a Mexican-American
transgender teen who was murdered in a hate crime in 2008. Angie's case was
the first time the murder of a transgender person was successfully
prosecuted under hate crime laws in the United States.

*"In July, 2008, 18-year-old Angie Zapata was beaten to death in an
apartment in Greeley, CO. Angie was a transgender victim, and prosecutors
in the politically conservative Denver suburb made history by charging her
killer, Allen Andrade, with a hate crime in connection to her death.
Filmmaker Alan Dominguez offers a sincere study of Angie's brief life and
violent death, including a lengthy review of the contentious murder trial
of Andrade. The murder victim was born Justin Zapata, but began to
self-identify as a female at a very young age and is referred to by the
Zapata family throughout the film as being female. Despite hostility from
the extended Zapata family, Angie insisted on being a woman, but would
claim that she always identified her actual biological state in social
settings. Angie met Andrade through the Internet, and he visited her
apartment for sex, later arguing that he beat her to death out of panic
when he discovered that she was a biological male. During the trail, the
prosecution repeatedly referred to Angie as female, but Andrade's defense
insisted on calling the victim Justin, stating that the deceased was male.
But Andrade proved to be his own worst enemy, at one point joking in a
tape-recorded prison telephone conversation that "all gay things must die";
later evidence also showed that he frequented bisexual community sites
online and socialized with Angie prior to their fatal encounter. The
successful conviction of Andrade has been celebrated by LGBT activists as a
milestone in promoting a new era of civil rights protections. PHOTOS OF
ANGIE offers a powerful examination of how Angie's tragic death became a
legal and sociological turning point. Highly recommended."* --P. Hall,
Video Librarian

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