2023·Documentary·1h 26m
7.1
★
The history of New York’s Meatpacking District, told from the perspective of transgender sex workers who lived and worked there. Filmmaker Kristen Lovell, who walked “The Stroll” for a decade, reunites her community to recount the violence, policing, homelessness, and gentrification they overcame to build a movement for transgender rights.
Directed by Kristen Parker Lovell and Zackary Drucker
new york city
lgbt
sex work
transgender
Trailer
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Cast
Kristen Parker Lovell
Self
Ceyenne Doroshow
Self
Egyptt LaBeija
Self
Sylvia Rivera
Self (archive footage)
Marsha P. Johnson
Self (archive footage)
RuPaul
Self (archive footage)
Rudolph Giuliani
Self (archive footage)
Michael Bloomberg
Self (archive footage)
Laverne Cox
Self (archive footage)
Zohran Mamdani
Self (archive footage)
Crew
Kristen Parker Lovell
Director
Zackary Drucker
Director
James Newberry
Original Music Composer
Matt Wolf
Producer
Lisa Heller
Executive Producer
Sara Rodriguez
Executive Producer
Nancy Abraham
Executive Producer
Popular Reviews
30 reviews
Josie Faas
8.0★ · 03/22/26
Such a beautiful documentary, very informative and heartbreaking
Such a beautiful documentary, very informative and heartbreaking
River
So powerful
So powerful
minjonss
8.0★ · 01/04/26
told by the people who lived it
I hope their tyres BUST!
I hope their tyres BUST!
told by the people who lived it
I hope their tyres BUST!
I hope their tyres BUST!
Spence
9.0★ · 11/21/25
Finished this a little late, but watched for Transgender Day of Remembrance in honor of all of our fallen transgender sisters, brothers, and siblings. Your lives mattered.
Finished this a little late, but watched for Transgender Day of Remembrance in honor of all of our fallen transgender sisters, brothers, and siblings. Your lives mattered.
stef
8.0★ · 10/23/25
Wow. I'm at a loss for words about this documentary, unsure how to comment about it while still doing it justice.
It features several archival pieces, interviews, and so many heavy, intimate narratives from the experiences that these transwoman have felt. It is honestly refreshing to have a documentary that comes from a person who lived in the Meatpacking District. I think a documentary like this could not have been beautifully executed and portrayed this way through an outside observer or someone who has never had to experience the sex work scene.
There are so many moments of joy, of vulnerabilities, of realness, of grief, of community. The Stroll really puts into perspective who these black trans-women are outside of sex work, even when sex work has become such an integral part of their identity and a survival strategy.
I honestly did not know the history of how intertwined gentrification and sex work were for New York and how it pushed for the black and trans movement. I learned so much from this documentary, and I cannot thank it enough for making me confront the uncomfortable.
It features several archival pieces, interviews, and so many heavy, intimate narratives from the experiences that these transwoman have felt. It is honestly refreshing to have a documentary that comes from a person who lived in the Meatpacking District. I think a documentary like this could not have been beautifully executed and portrayed this way through an outside observer or someone who has never had to experience the sex work scene.
There are so many moments of joy, of vulnerabilities, of realness, of grief, of community. The Stroll really puts into perspective who these black trans-women are outside of sex work, even when sex work has become such an integral part of their identity and a survival strategy.
I honestly did not know the history of how intertwined gentrification and sex work were for New York and how it pushed for the black and trans movement. I learned so much from this documentary, and I cannot thank it enough for making me confront the uncomfortable.
Wow. I'm at a loss for words about this documentary, unsure how to comment about it while still doing it justice.
It features several archival pieces, interviews, and so many heavy, intimate narratives from the experiences that these transwoman have felt. It is honestly refreshing to have a documentary that comes from a person who lived in the Meatpacking District. I think a documentary like this could not have been beautifully executed and portrayed this way through an outside observer or someone who has never had to experience the sex work scene.
There are so many moments of joy, of vulnerabilities, of realness, of grief, of community. The Stroll really puts into perspective who these black trans-women are outside of sex work, even when sex work has become such an integral part of their identity and a survival strategy.
I honestly did not know the history of how intertwined gentrification and sex work were for New York and how it pushed for the black and trans movement. I learned so much from this documentary, and I cannot thank it enough for making me confront the uncomfortable.
It features several archival pieces, interviews, and so many heavy, intimate narratives from the experiences that these transwoman have felt. It is honestly refreshing to have a documentary that comes from a person who lived in the Meatpacking District. I think a documentary like this could not have been beautifully executed and portrayed this way through an outside observer or someone who has never had to experience the sex work scene.
There are so many moments of joy, of vulnerabilities, of realness, of grief, of community. The Stroll really puts into perspective who these black trans-women are outside of sex work, even when sex work has become such an integral part of their identity and a survival strategy.
I honestly did not know the history of how intertwined gentrification and sex work were for New York and how it pushed for the black and trans movement. I learned so much from this documentary, and I cannot thank it enough for making me confront the uncomfortable.