The poster for the premiere of the groundbreaking but largely unrecorded, and completely undistributed, documentary "Transexuals," featuring S.T.A.R. founder Sylvia Rivera and activist Deborah Hartin - along with a film about Earth Peoples Park commune in the Lower East Side. 
A pioneering documentary of the lives of trans women in America before 1971, featuring extensive interviews with Deborah Hartin, Esther Reilly, and Sylvia Rivera. Rivera, interviewed on the street during a demonstration, explores identity and identification, drawing a distinction between hormone treatments and surgery, and elucidating some of the many forms of transness available to gender non-conforming people. 

 
Further, the movie was made collectively, and in a format-"video"-that at the time, few had a real concept for. Hartin, one of the subjects of the documentary, struggled for years to find gender affirming surgery in the United States, traveling to Casablanca shortly before the documentary's screening, and discussing the experience in the documentary. In the years following, she became aotable trans advocate in New York, and in 1971, shortly after the release of this film, Hartin sued the city overnment for refusing to update her sex designation on her birth certificate. Transexuals documented both the material, legal, and social conditions facing trans women in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and afforded a platform for discussions of healthcare equity, and. Because of technical limitations, "Transsexuals" could not be broadcast on commercial television. It was never distributed and rarely shown publicly. 

 
Also premiering at the same screening was a documentary on the Lower East Side commune, located at 13 Second Avenue, the Earth People's Park. Very few records of this urban commune exist; however, it was a predecessor to Earth People's Park Inc., which bought land in Vermont at around this time, and continued for several decades. Across the country, many urban communes went rural as the '60s bled into the 70s, such as the Diggers and Morningstar Ranch, and the Lavender Hill Commune, which started in Staten Island before moving to Ithaca. 

 
Global Video was a groundbreaking video art space, founded by artists John Reilly and Rudi Stern, providing popular video workshops and other resources to the Black Panther Party, the Gay Activists Alliance, incarcerated people, artist peers, and other community organizers and marginalized groups. These two films were produced as part of their courses on community video production at the New School. 

 
No records of this flier or screening located in OCLC as of April 2026, and very little documentation of either work in general. 

 
"It's a fact of life that homosexualism and transsexualism are with us and have been since the beginning of time." - Esther Reilly, in the film.