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Judy Shepard. Matthew Wayne Shepard (December 1, 1976 – October 12, 1998) was a gay American student at the University of Wyoming who was beaten, tortured, and left to die near Laramie on the night of October 6, 1998. [1] He was taken by rescuers to Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins, Colorado, where he died six days later from severe ...
Rural people are commonly depicted in media and otherwise as un-intelligent, dirty, and intolerant; these stereotypes and myths persist largely through well-publicized rural hate crimes (e.g. Brandon Teena's assault and murder) that seemingly support stereotypes of rural people as violent bigots and of rural LGBT people as mere victims.
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Mary Christine Brockert (March 5, 1956 – December 26, 2010), known professionally as Teena Marie, was an American soul and R&B singer, songwriter, and producer. She was known by her childhood nickname Tina [2] before taking the stage name Teena Marie and later acquired the nickname Lady T , [3] given to her by her collaborator and friend Rick ...
She reported on the Brandon Teena story, and her Village Voice article on the subject was said by director Kimberly Peirce to have been the original inspiration for the film Boys Don't Cry. Awards and honors. Minkowitz won a GLAAD Media Award. Newsweek Magazine listed her as one of "30 gay power brokers" in the country in 1993.
Hilary Ann Swank (born July 30, 1974) is an American actress and film producer. Swank first became known in 1992 for her role on the television series Camp Wilder and made her film debut with a minor role in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992). She then had her breakthrough for starring as Julie Pierce in The Next Karate Kid (1994), the fourth ...
Assault and murder of Brandon Teena. Brandon Teena was a trans man who was raped and murdered in December 1993 in Humbodlt, Nebraska. His death, alongside two of his friends, Phillip DeVine and Lisa Lambert, is thought to be a hate crime motivated by his status as a transgender man. His murderers, Marvin Nissen and John Lotter forced Teena to ...
The documentary film Paragraph 175, a joint German–British–American production, publicized the effects of the law on concentration camp internees. Gad Beck (left) and Pierre Seel at the German premiere of Paragraph 175 in Berlin (2000) Paragraph 175 is a 2000 documentary film, directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, [1] and narrated ...