A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story

Starring J.D. Pardo and Mercedes Ruehl.

Directed by Agnieszka Holland.

Foto:Gwen Araújo tinha 17 anos quando foi assassinada

[USA]
Strong story of transgender teen shouldn't be missed
It's an incredibly moving story about a loving and largely traditional Latino family.

Foto: J. D. Pardo plays the Newark Transgender

[USA]
A toothless treatment of a complex case: transgender teen Gwen Araujo's murder
There were several ways a TV movie about the tragic and short life of transgender teen Gwen Araujo could have turned out.

Foto: Mercedes Ruehl as Sylvia Guerrero and J. D. Pardo as Gwen Araújo

[USA]
Lifetime's film on Gwen Araujo exceeds expectations
Earlier this year, Michael Magidson and Jose Merel, convicted of murdering Newark transgender teenager Gwen Araujo in October of 2002, stood in a courtroom in Hayward and were given the maximum sentence of 15 years to life.

[USA]
Transgender teen's tale is honest if simplistic
To some transgender individuals, Gwen Araujo might have been living out a fantasy. Born Eddie Araujo, with male genitalia, she won acceptance within her immediate family as a girl. In Lifetime's ``A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story," her mother, Sylvia, and her sister, Chita, fully embrace the teen who wanted to wear makeup and be called Gwen. At one point, Chita asks Gwen to serve as the maid of honor at her wedding -- before their disapproving grandmother forbids it.

[USA]
This gender switch has little power
The title of tonight's Lifetime telemovie, "A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story," bestows upon its subject the identity and dignity so often denied in life.

[Malaysia]
SpotLight: ‘Third gender’ living in legal limbo
They are the non-entities of society. Their misery is deepened by the reluctance of the authorities to recognise them as transsexuals. Yet they cling to the hope that society will one day accept them for who they are.