Ithaca College

The Out of the Closet and Onto the Screen LGBT themed film series will host a showing of the documentary “Two Spirits” on Tuesday, Nov. 4. Free and open to the public, the screening will take place at 7 p.m. in Textor 101.

“Two Spirits” interweaves the tragic story of a mother’s loss of her son with a revealing look at a time when many Native American cultures held places of honor for people of integrated genders. Fred Martinez was nádleehí, a male-bodied person with a feminine nature, a special gift according to his ancient Navajo culture. But the place where two discriminations meet is a dangerous place to live, and Martinez became one of the youngest hate-crime victims in modern history when he was brutally murdered in 2001 at the age of 16.

Aired on PBS as part of its Independent Lens series, the documentary demonstrates that between tradition and controversy, sex and spirit, and freedom and fear, lives the truth — that the bravest choice you can make is to be yourself.

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Out of the Closet and Onto the Screen is sponsored by the Ithaca College Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Education, Outreach, and Services. For more information, visit www.ithaca.edu/lgbt.

Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Luca Maurer at lmaurer@ithaca.edu or (607) 274-7394. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.