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The documentary film Paragraph 175, a joint German–British–American production, publicized the effects of the law on concentration camp internees. Gad Beck (left) and Pierre Seel at the German premiere of Paragraph 175 in Berlin (2000) Paragraph 175 is a 2000 documentary film, directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, [1] and narrated ...
In December 1993, Humboldt was the site of a triple murder, including the rape and murder of Brandon Teena, a transgender man. [6] Three Ball Charlie, pictured on the cover of The Rolling Stones ' album Exile on Main St. , grew up in Humboldt.
Carrie Brown (c. 1834 – April 24, 1891) was a New York City prostitute who was murdered and mutilated in a lodging house. She is occasionally mentioned as an alleged victim of Jack the Ripper. Although known to use numerous aliases, a common practice in her occupation, she supposedly won her nickname of Shakespeare for her habit of quoting ...
In 1995, after the murder of transgender youth Brandon Teena, Nangeroni helped organize one of the first national actions against trans violence. The demonstration was held outside of Falls City, Nebraska, and was attended by over 40 trans activists, including Leslie Feinberg and Kate Bornstein.
She reported on the Brandon Teena story, and her Village Voice article on the subject was said by director Kimberly Peirce to have been the original inspiration for the film Boys Don't Cry. Awards and honors. Minkowitz won a GLAAD Media Award. Newsweek Magazine listed her as one of "30 gay power brokers" in the country in 1993.
Brandon Teena (1972–1993), American murder victim. Teena Marie (1956–2010), American singer, songwriter, and producer. Teena Rochfort-Smith (1861–1883), British Shakespeare scholar and philologist. Fictional characters. Teena (comic strip), a cartoon panel series and comic strip created by Hilda Terry. Teena Mulder, from The X-Files ...
Murder of Janet Brown. Janet Brown (27 January 1944 – 10 April 1995) was an English nurse who was murdered by an intruder in her house in Radnage, Buckinghamshire in 1995. The case remains unsolved, and the investigation remains open. A link has been suggested between her murder and that of 50-year-old Carolanne Jackson 10 miles away in ...
Rural people are commonly depicted in media and otherwise as un-intelligent, dirty, and intolerant; these stereotypes and myths persist largely through well-publicized rural hate crimes (e.g. Brandon Teena's assault and murder) that seemingly support stereotypes of rural people as violent bigots and of rural LGBT people as mere victims.