Every Body's Sean Saifa Wall, River Gallo, & Alicia Roth Weigel

Emmy-winning RBG co-creator and co-director Julie Cohen’s documentary Every Body made waves at the Tribeca Film Festival this year for showcasing the lives of an often-overlooked part of the LGBTQIA+ community: intersex folks.

Every Body shines a light on the misconceptions about intersex people and how they are treated by society. It also helps intersex folks see that, despite being underrepresented in media (and society at large), there is a global community. The film follows three amazing subjects who are helping make a difference in the world: River Gallo, an actor, filmmaker, writer, and activist; Alicia Roth Weigel, a writer, activist, and human rights commissioner for the city of Austin; and Sean Saifa Wall, an activist, researcher, and the former president of interACT, an advocacy organization that works with and for intersex youth.

“LGBTQ+ equality should not be an afterthought, especially as we are witnessing the rise of authoritarianism, which is threatening freedoms for many of us,” Wall says of their message for equality. “When we fight for the dignity of queer, trans, and intersex communities, we are actually fighting for all of us to live with dignity and respect.”

“Love is always the answer and real love often looks like healing oneself,” Gallo says. “I think certain people fear the paradigm shift that queer, trans, and intersex people represent and which causes them to desperately cling to traditional patriarchal values. However, the key to equality is for all people to cultivate a sense of radical compassion, recognizing our collective oneness and the humanity and community we can find in that oneness.”

“It’s LGBTQIA+ equality,” Weigel reminds us. “The ‘I’ stands for intersex, not invisible!” @xoxy_alicia @rivergallo @saifaemerges