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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.
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]
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] After its theatrical release, it aired on Cinemax as part of its Reel Life series.
This is a worldwide list of people who were killed for being transgender, from 1991 to 2021. It includes some cases of trans panic defense, hate crimes, and murders by serial killers.
Learn about the biographical film directed by Kimberly Peirce, starring Hilary Swank as Brandon Teena, a trans man who faces hate crime in Nebraska. The article covers the plot, production, reception, awards, and legacy of the film.
This web page covers the assaults, legal responses, and hate crime statistics of LGBT people in the United States since the 1969 Stonewall riot. It does not mention any specific cases of gay teens murder or shock the nation, but it provides some general information on the prevalence and causes of violence against LGBT community.
JoAnn Brandon, Teena's mother, was upset that the filmmakers failed to explain that for several years when Teena was a young girl, Teena had been sexually molested by a man. JoAnn said that Teena sought counseling in 1991, and began to dress in men's clothing and date women as a defense strategy.
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