Daniel Peddle’s seminal twin documentaries on queer life, The Aggressives and Beyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later, have been picked up by The Criterion Channel and are now available to stream.
The Aggressives first premiered in 2005 at SXSW and has since become a landmark piece of non-fiction filmmaking for its intimate portrait of masculine-presenting lesbians and trans men of color living in New York City at the turn of the millennium.
In 2023, Peddle returned with Beyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later, revisiting four of the original participants—Kisha, Trevon, Octavio, and Chin—to explore how their lives, and
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