Independent Lens | Two Spirits | The Changing Ones: A Two Spirits Companion | PBS
Duration: 04:57
Program:
Independent Lens #1225
Broadcast Date: Jun. 14, 2011
Historical explorations of gender inspired the first gay organization in the U.S.
The world struggles for an understanding of what the terms "gay, straight, bisexual, and transgender" mean. But Native American beliefs about the spectrum of the masculine and feminine also connect with a gender-bending tradition from the Middle Ages in Europe.
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Fred Martinez was a Navajo youth slain at the age of 16 for identifying as a two-spirit. Two Spirits is the tragic... 02:02
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