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The film Boys Don't Cry chronicles the case of Brandon Teena, a transsexual man who was raped and murdered after his status was discovered. In 1999 Brandon was memoralised in the first Transgender Day of Remembrance . [ 98 ]
He was the lead in Hurricane Streets [3] [4] and Desert Blue and also appeared in Boys Don't Cry, Black Hawk Down, and Just Like the Son, as well as the cult films Empire Records and Pecker. He also starred in The Marconi Bros. alongside Dan Fogler and in Jonathan Blitstein's Let Them Chirp Awhile alongside Justin Rice.
Many mainstream representations of transgender and non-binary people or characters have been portrayed by cisgender actors, such as Hilary Swank's portrayal of Brandon Teena in Boys Don't Cry and Eddie Redmayne's portrayal of Lili Elbe in The Danish Girl, leading to some controversy surrounding the ethics of who should be acting the parts of ...
Boys, US (2016) Boys Don't Cry, US (1999) Boys in Brazil (Do Lado de Fora), Brazil (2014) The Boys in the Band, US (1970) The Boys in the Band, US (2020) Boys in the Sand, US (1971) Boys Love (ボーイズ ラブ), Japan (2006) Boys Love, the Movie (ボーイズ ラブ 劇場版), Schoolboy Crush, Japan (2007) The Boys of San Francisco, US (1980)
Both the song and its video were inspired by Boys Don't Cry, a 1999 film starring Hilary Swank, which told the story of Brandon Teena, a trans man who was raped and murdered in Nebraska in 1993. The British Columbia Teachers' Federation listed the "Brandon" video as a recommended resource for teachers, relating to LGBTQ social justice issues. [29]
Boys Don't Cry is the second album by Rumer, produced by Steve Brown. It was released on 28 May 2012. The album is a selection of songs by artist/writers from the 1970s period. Rumer covers works by male artists such as Jimmy Webb, Todd Rundgren, Terry Reid, Tim Hardin, Richie Havens, Gilbert O'Sullivan and others. [1]
Boys Don't Cry is the Cure's first compilation album. [1] Released in February 1980, this album is composed of several tracks from the band's May 1979 debut album Three Imaginary Boys (which had yet to see a US release) with material from the band's 1978–1979 era.
In 1993 Brandon Teena, a transgender man, was raped and murdered in Nebraska. In 1999 he became the subject of a biopic entitled Boys Don't Cry, starring Hilary Swank as Brandon Teena, for which Swank won an Academy Award.