Brazilian trans poet Anderson Bigode Herzer lived a wild life full of loss and struggle, which he utilized to create literary art. While confined to a youth correctional facility for most of his teen years, Anderson wrote one of the first trans masculine memoirs in his poetry collection A queda para o alto. He passed at 20 after taking his own life, a sadly still-occurring outcome for today’s trans youth. Through her aGLIFF-supported program at AFS, Queer Cinema Lost and Found, Elizabeth Purchell screens Sérgio Toledo’s Vera – a fictionalized biopic of Anderson described by Purchell as “a critically acclaimed, yet sadly underseen, piece of trans cinema history.” – James Scott
