I Hate New York is kind of a bookend to “Paris Is Burning” (1990). Between that movie and this one, the much-bruited late-’90s “cleanup” of Manhattan steamrolled much of transgender social life — popular Times-Square-adjacent transgender hangouts such as Cats II and Sally’s Hideaway were shut down — and more. Here we have survivors of that attack, and of so much more, still standing. They are engaging, funny, brave people.

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