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Kristen Lovell and Zackary Drucker's moving documentary offers an excitingly revisionist slice of New York City's transgender history. Queer history is an act of digging. Telling stories about the LGBTQ community, and transgender people in particular, necessarily requires examining archives that are utterly hostile to those they document. In “The Stroll,” a new HBO documentary directed by Kristen Lovell and Zackary Drucker, the filmmakers dig through decades of footage to tell the story of trans sex workers in New York City's Meatpacking District. Seemingly a slice of local history for an increasingly gentrifying city that sees marginalized people as easily disposable, “The Stroll” is an empathetic portrait of a community still fighting for its own survival. Directors: Zackary Drucker, Kristen Lovell Star: RuPaul The film opens with footage of a young Lovell, taken from the 2007 documentary "Queer Streets," in which she talks about how she first turned to sex work...