Director: Monika Treut
Year: 2021
Duration: 88 minutes
Category: Documentary Feature
Language: English 


More than two decades after "Gendernauts" (1999), Monika Treut returns to California to meet the protagonists of her groundbreaking queer film classic. Sandy Stone, Susan Stryker, Stafford and Max Wolf Valerio were once the young pioneers of the trans movement and almost all lived in the then outsider metropolis of San Francisco. Today, they are between 58 and 84 years old, and hardly anyone can afford to live in the city. But the energy of the gendernauts and their supporters Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens is unbroken.

How has her life changed? As civil rights activists, how do they deal with right-wing conservative policies that threaten the long-fought rights of minorities? "Genderation" takes a utopian look back and shows the creative resistance of the gendernauts against the threatening living conditions in the US of A.