UPDATE/Transgender film festival spotlights health concerns

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Cape Cod Times



Transgender film festival spotlights health concerns


By Mary Ann Bragg, mbragg@capecodonline.com | April 20, 2012


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PROVINCETOWN — A new film festival begins today that has an ulterior motive: to help educate transgender people about the kind of health care they deserve.

The New England Transgender Film Festival runs for two days at the Crown & Anchor in Provincetown. Cape resident Alejandro Marcel organized it after running an unexpectedly successful festival in Brookline more than a decade ago. At the Brookline event, about 1,000 transgender people showed up, Marcel said Wednesday. He'd be happy with even a quarter of that for what he plans as an annual festiva

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Cape advocate educates about transgender isues
By Mary Ann Bragg
April 22, 2012

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PROVINCETOWN — When Alejandro Marcel moved to Cape Cod two years ago, he had a lot of experience educating people about how to treat transgender people respectfully. But Marcel was caught off-guard at a physician's office when he was turned away at the front desk.

Marcel, 57, is a man who was born "female-appearing," and he is a consultant on minority public health. He organized Friday and Saturday's first New England Transgender Film Festival. The festival at the Crown & Anchor highlighted films by, for and about transgender people and at the same time focused on health care.