This week arrives to theaters a proposal full of great queer latinxs artists to represent fragments of similar or opposing universes among the streets of Los Angeles.

Trans Los Angeles is an anthology composed of four short films directed and written by transgender director Kase Peña. Each of them addresses the daily existence of different trans characters.

Carmen Carrera, Stephanie Beatriz and YaYa Gosselin are part of the cast in the short Period, which focuses on Vergara (Carrera) when she is just out of prison and gets a part-time job as a babysitter for a little girl (Gosselin). In parallel, she keeps up the sex work that got her behind bars in the first place.

It's clearly a bid for queer from a director with a track record for telling gritty, honest stories, but it's still a surprise in the broader Hollywood landscape.

It's the work of Peña's own production company, Trans Los Angeles LLLC, along with Evelyn Martinez and Kristi Lugo, who also worked side by side on another HBO-acquired short, Full Beat.

Carmen Carrera is a transgender icon and well-known activist who appeared on RuPaul's Drag Race, its spin-off RuPaul's Drag U and the sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine. We will see her again before the end of the year alongside Lin-Manuel in the musical In The Heights.

Carmen Carrera, Stephanie Beatriz and YaYa Gosselin have joined the ensemble cast of Kase Peña’s debut feature TRANS LOS ANGELES.

The anthology film takes place in different parts of LA, offering a glimpse into the daily life of a different Trans character. pic.twitter.com/ljJ7ybRw2J

— Screen Queens (@screenqueenz) March 24, 2021

 In response to the sadly frequent transphobic attacks in Latin America and many other countries, a whole series of productions starring transgender characters are emerging, seeking to give visibility to the collective and tell stories in which they can see themselves represented. 

For example, the award-winning Pose or The Politician, which plays with the resources of humor.