Check It (2016)

Fed up with being pushed around a group of gay and trans teens of color form a gang and fight back on the brutal streets of Washington DC They call their gang Check it and this group of onetime victims of bullying rape and abuse have turned the tables on anyone trying to hurt them The group formed to provide its members safety in numbers and let people know that if they jump a queer kid in DC they may get beaten into a coma This raw and intimate portrait follows three childhood friends as they struggle to survive and claw their way out of gang life through an unlikely avenue fashion