Vestida de azul by Antonio Giménez-Rico was the first Spanish documentary starring six transgender women to be released in commercial theaters. Today, 35 years later and with the perspective that the passage of time provides, journalist Valeria Vegas examines how the media and cinema addressed transgender identity in a truly hostile era for a group as exposed as it was small.
Through the circumstances surrounding Eva, Loren, Tamara, Josette, Nacha, and Renée, the author explores aspects such as prostitution, performance, social exclusion, and oppressive laws. Their lives are also those of many other women for whom democracy was not always synonymous with freedom.
