See Laverne in the feature film Musical Chairs opening in New York City and Miami March 23, 2012 and in Chicago and Los Angeles March 30, 2012. Click on the headline to read Laverne on her role in "Musical Chairs"  

It’s a film about wheelchair ballroom dancing, but it’s also a beautiful story about love and family and about anything being possible. Dance has always been a huge part of my life and the story is told so beautifully through dance in this film. I play Chantelle who is a trans woman and is also paraplegic, but she is also sassy, sexy and wise. Learning to ballroom dance in a wheelchair was an intense and wonderful challenge for me. Working on this character and trying to embody truthfully the experience of being disabled, I developed such a sense of respect and admiration for the courage and strength that people with disabilities have, what it means to not only exist but to thrive with dignity in a world that is not really designed for you. I thought I knew this as a trans woman but it went so much deeper working on this film.