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Brandon Teena. Brandon Teena[note 1] (December 12, 1972 – December 31, 1993) was an American transgender man who was raped and later, along with Phillip DeVine and Lisa Lambert, murdered in Humboldt, Nebraska, by John Lotter and Tom Nissen. [2][3] His life and death were the subject of the films The Brandon Teena Story and Boys Don't Cry.
Lana M. Tisdel (born May 28, 1975) [2] is an American woman whose early life and involvement with the December 1993 murders of Brandon Teena, Lisa Lambert, and Phillip DeVine at the hands of John Lotter and Tom Nissen is chronicled in the 1998 documentary The Brandon Teena Story and the 1999 film Boys Don't Cry (which left out DeVine). [3] She was portrayed in the film by Chloë Sevigny, who ...
John Phillip Devine (born October 3, 1958) is an American attorney and judge who is a justice on the Supreme Court of Texas. [1] A Republican, he was a judge on a Texas District Court from 1995 to 2002. Since 2013, he has been on the Texas Supreme Court. According to The Texas Tribune, Devine's juridicial philosophy is strongly "shaped by his religious beliefs and deeply conservative politics ...
In dissenting from the majority of the court, Justices John Phillip Devine and Jimmy Blacklock said they would have granted Paxton's request to block his deposition along with those of First ...
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. The film co-stars Chloë ...
Assault and murder of Brandon Teena Brandon Teena was a trans man who was raped and murdered in December 1993 in Humbodlt, Nebraska. [39] 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.
Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood is a 1976 American comedy film directed by Michael Winner, and starring Bruce Dern, Madeline Kahn, Teri Garr and Art Carney. Spoofing the craze surrounding Rin Tin Tin, the film is notable for the large number of cameo appearances by actors and actresses from Hollywood's golden age, [3][4] many of whom had been employees of Paramount Pictures, the film ...
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer) The Divine Invasion is a 1981 science fantasy novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. It is the second book in the gnostic VALIS trilogy, and takes place in the indeterminate future, perhaps a century or more after VALIS. The novel, originally titled Valis Regained, was nominated to the BSFA Award.