Premium Content:

'Check It': Steve Buscemi documentary focuses on homeless LGBT gang

♦ Actor Steve Buscemi premieres documentary on homeless LGBT gang at Tribeca

buscemi

Cult icon Steve Buscemi has premiered a new production at Tribeca Film Festival that focuses on the lives of a group of homeless LGBT youth in Washington DC.

- Advertisement -

‘Check It’ is a documentary film that follows a gang of black transgender and gay youth known as The Check It. The gang have “had to band together out of necessity, and instead of running away from the dangers that they face daily they decide to fight back.”

The film documents the gang attempting to make positive changes in their lives, moving forward from being victims of violence and turning to crime – working to launch a fashion label and forge paths as models and designers.

“It’s happening in DC just a couple miles from the White House, and I don’t think these kids or their problems are really known,” Buscemi told Indiewire.

“When people are not exposed to gay and transgender people they can form an opinion that’s not really based on anything real, that’s just based on fear.”

The film has reportedly been in the production phase for four years now, finally nearing completion. Buscemi is airing the film at New York’s Tribeca Film Festival to raise funds for the film’s release.

Buscemi will also put some of the funds raised towards helping the featured kids set up their fashion label.

Watch two clips from Steve Buscemi’s ‘Check It’ below.

 


Sources

Latest

On This Gay Day | In 1986 New Zealand decriminalises homosexuality

On this day in 1986, New Zealand passed the Homosexual Law Reform Act that decriminalized homosexuality removing British colonial laws.

Polari Prize longlist announced but authors launch protest action over inclusion of John Boyne

Authors and judges have complained saying Boyne's statements about trans people should have excluded him from consideration.

US revokes approved early retirement of trans service members, removing their benefits

In January when US President Donald Trump returned to...

LGBTIQ+ groups join forces to denounce discrimination against trans women

"We reject damaging public narratives that seek to divide us and deny the long and connected history of our movement for equality and justice."

Newsletter

Don't miss

On This Gay Day | In 1986 New Zealand decriminalises homosexuality

On this day in 1986, New Zealand passed the Homosexual Law Reform Act that decriminalized homosexuality removing British colonial laws.

Polari Prize longlist announced but authors launch protest action over inclusion of John Boyne

Authors and judges have complained saying Boyne's statements about trans people should have excluded him from consideration.

US revokes approved early retirement of trans service members, removing their benefits

In January when US President Donald Trump returned to...

LGBTIQ+ groups join forces to denounce discrimination against trans women

"We reject damaging public narratives that seek to divide us and deny the long and connected history of our movement for equality and justice."

Rising star Georgina Hopson takes the lead in ‘Anastasia’ musical

The hit Broadway musical will have its Australian premiere at the Regent Theatre in Melbourne before touring to Perth and Sydney in 2026.

On This Gay Day | In 1986 New Zealand decriminalises homosexuality

On this day in 1986, New Zealand passed the Homosexual Law Reform Act that decriminalized homosexuality removing British colonial laws.

Polari Prize longlist announced but authors launch protest action over inclusion of John Boyne

Authors and judges have complained saying Boyne's statements about trans people should have excluded him from consideration.

US revokes approved early retirement of trans service members, removing their benefits

In January when US President Donald Trump returned to power he issued an executive order saying that transgender personnel serving in the armed forces...