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Sandra Annette Bland (February 7, 1987 – July 13, 2015) was from Naperville, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, and was one of five sisters.She attended Willowbrook High School in Villa Park, Illinois and graduated in 2005, then Prairie View A&M University outside Hempstead in Waller County, Texas, where she was a member of the Sigma Gamma Rho sorority.
On the Weekend Update aired on February 24, 1996, Macdonald joked about John Lotter's sentencing for the murders of Brandon Teena and two others: [36] "And finally, in Falls City, Nebraska, John Lotter has been sentenced to death for attempting to kill three people in what prosecutors called a plot to silence a cross-dressing female who had ...
Brandon Teena was an American transgender man who was raped and murdered in Humboldt, Nebraska in 1993. [note 3] [117] [118] His life and death were the subject of the Academy Award-winning 1999 film Boys Don't Cry, which was partially based on the 1998 documentary film The Brandon Teena Story.
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December 25, 1993 – Brandon Teena, a trans man, was raped and, six days later, killed when Richardson County, Nebraska police revealed that he was AFAB to male friends of his. [63] His attacker, John Lotter, was sentenced to death. The events leading to Teena's death were depicted in the movie Boys Don't Cry. [64]
Boys Don't Cry is a 1999 American biographical film directed by Kimberly Peirce, and co-written by Peirce and Andy Bienen.The film is a dramatization of the real-life story of Brandon Teena (played by Hilary Swank), an American trans man who attempts to find himself and love in Nebraska but falls victim to a brutal hate crime perpetrated by two male acquaintances.
Brandon is a masculine given name that is a transferred use of a surname and place name derived from the Old English ... Brandon Teena (1972-1993), American murder ...