ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives

ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives A special screening of the work in progress of "Two Spirits", a documentary interweaving the tragic story of a mother's loss of her son with a revealing look at a time when Native American cultures held places of honor for people of integrated genders. Filmmakers Lydia Nibley and Russell Martin and special guests will ...be in attendance.

"Two Spirits" interweaves the tragic story of a mother’s loss of her son with a revealing look at the largely unknown history of a time when the world wasn’t simply divided into male and female and many Native American cultures held places of honor for people of integrated genders.

Fred Martinez was nádleehí, a male-bodied person with a feminine nature, a special gift according to his ancient Navajo culture. He was one of the youngest hate-crime victims in modern history when he was brutally murdered at sixteen by a young man who bragged to friends that he had “bug-smashed a fag.” Two Spirits explores the life and death of a boy who was also a girl and the essentially spiritual nature of gender and sexuality. The film makes the case that in the twenty-first century we need to return to traditional values.

The official trailer for TWO SPIRITS is on the TWO SPIRITS YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/TwoSpiritsOrg.