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Tranny Fag

2018 Brazilian documentary film

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ50192217 ↗
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Tranny Fag (Portuguese: Bixa Travesty) is a 2018 Brazilian documentary film directed by Claudia Priscilla and Kiko Goifman about Linn da Quebrada, a travesti Brazilian musician and activist whose tactics for confronting homophobia and transphobia include radical performance art, film, and music.

The film had its theatrical premiere at the 2018 Berlin International Film Festival, where it won a Teddy Award as the best LGBTQ-themed documentary film of the festival.

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“Tranny Fag” enters the record as 2018 Brazilian documentary film. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Tranny, Brazilian and documentary can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q50192217. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from “Tranny Fag” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.