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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.
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 ...
In her generous smile, there are flashes of Brandon Teena, the young transgender man she portrayed to devastating perfection in Kimberly Peirce’s Boys Don’t Cry.
Brandon Teena was an American transgender man who was raped and murdered in Humboldt, Nebraska in 1993. [note 3] [117] [118] His life and death were the subject of the Academy Award -winning 1999 film Boys Don't Cry, which was partially based on the 1998 documentary film The Brandon Teena Story.
1993 – Brandon Teena, a trans man, was raped and later killed when his birth gender was revealed by police to male friends of his. His attacker, John Lotter, was sentenced to death. The events leading to Teena's death were depicted in the movie Boys Don't Cry .
In 1993, Brandon Teena was raped and later killed after his transgender identity was revealed. Two men that Teena had thought were his friends were the assailants. The reporting on Teena's murder was also transphobic, often misgendering him.