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'Two Spirits' tells story of murder of Fred Martinez
by Joe Hanel
Herald Denver Bureau
Article Last Updated; Sunday, November 22, 2009 12:10AM
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DENVER - Fred Martinez was anything but simple.
He was, at various moments, a boy, a girl, a Navajo, a Montezuma-Cortez High School student, gay, transgendered, nadleehi.
In June 2001, in a ravine just south of Cortez, he became a murder victim.
Now, he's the subject of a movie, and, if the filmmakers have their way, he will become a window onto a view of gender that is at once new to American society and older than America itself.