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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 ...
The Brandon Teena Story is a 1998 American documentary film directed by Susan Muska and Greta Olafsdottir. [1] The documentary features interviews with many of the people involved with the 1993 murder of Brandon Teena as well as archive footage of Teena. [2]
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 ...
Swank came to international recognition for her performances as Brandon Teena in Kimberly Peirce 's Boys Don't Cry (1999) and as Maggie Fitzgerald in Clint Eastwood 's Million Dollar Baby (2004). Both performances earned her widespread critical acclaim and numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards for Best Actress and two Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress in a Motion Picture ...
An article in The Conversation by finance professor Brandon Cline showed that around half of the 1500 largest public companies in the U.S. force their CEOs to retire when they turn 65 or so because of declining performance, with nearly 70% of S&P 500 companies having mandatory retirement ages for their boards in the mid-70s. Cline noted that a ...
The family of Donald Trump, 45th president of the United States (2017–2021) and owner of the Trump Organization, is an American family of German and Scottish descent. [1] They are active in business, entertainment, politics, and real estate. Donald Trump, his third wife Melania, and their son Barron were the first family for the duration of ...
Gwen Amber Rose Araujo (February 24, 1985 – October 4, 2002) [ 1 ] was an American teenager who was murdered in Newark, California, at the age of 17. [ 2 ] She was murdered by four men, two of whom she had been sexually intimate with, who beat and strangled her after discovering that she was transgender. [ 1 ][ 3 ] Two of the defendants were convicted of second-degree murder, [ 4 ] but not ...