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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]
Brandon Teena was an American transgender man who was raped and killed by two men in Nebraska after they discovered his female anatomy. His life and death inspired the films The Brandon Teena Story and Boys Don't Cry, and drew attention to hate crime laws in the US.
Boys Don't Cry is a biographical film about Brandon Teena, a trans man who was murdered in Nebraska in 1993. Hilary Swank won an Oscar for her portrayal of Brandon, who falls in love with Lana Tisdel, played by Chloë Sevigny.
Boys Don’t Cry: Hilary Swank and Chloë Sevigny as Brandon Teena and Lana Tisdel (Getty) Swank has said words to this effect in several interviews over the years, always in a manner that ...
The film is based on the life of Brandon Teena, a trans man who was beaten, raped, and murdered in 1993 after his male acquaintances found out that he was transgender. Hilary Swank stars as Teena and Chloë Sevigny plays his girlfriend Lana Tisdel. [1] [2] Peter Sarsgaard and Brendan Sexton III portray Teena's two murderers.
[42] [43] Sevigny played Lana Tisdel, a young woman who fell in love with Teena, initially unaware of the fact that he was a transgender man and continued the relationship after learning about his gender identity. [44] Boys Don't Cry received high praise from critics, and was a moderate box-office success. [45]
Sylvia Guerrero is the mother of Gwen Araujo, a transgender teenager who was murdered in 2002 by four men who discovered her sex. The article describes the background, confrontation, and aftermath of the crime, as well as the legal proceedings and controversies involving the defendants and the "trans panic defense".
She went on to appear in several independent features, including two directed by her then-boyfriend, Harmony Korine (writer of Kids): Gummo (1997) and Julien Donkey-Boy (1998), before obtaining a lead role as Lana Tisdel in Boys Don't Cry (1999), a fact-based drama about the murder of trans man Brandon Teena.