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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. [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]
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.
Jake Gyllenhaal (brother-in-law) John Peter Sarsgaard ( / ˈsɑːrzɡɑːrd /; born March 7, 1971) is an American actor. He studied at the Actors Studio, before rising to prominence playing atypical and sometimes villainous roles in film and television. He made his film debut with Dead Man Walking (1995). He gained recognition for his role in ...
The Tecumseh State Correctional Institution ( TSCI) is a medium / maximum security state correctional institution for the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services. The TSCI is in Nemaha Township, Johnson County, about two miles north of Tecumseh, Nebraska, it was established in 1997. Construction began in 1998, and the TSCI began accepting ...
The J.J. Nissen Bakery building is an historic bakery building in Portland, Maine, USA. Located at 75 Washington Avenue on Munjoy Hill, it was built in 1924 for the John J. Nissen Baking Company. In August 1995, the building was purchased by philanthropist Elizabeth Noyce. [1]
John L. Notter (born 1935) is an American financier and developer who manages and has substantial interests in a wide variety of companies, including Westlake Properties, Inc., and Sailview Associates, Inc., of Westlake Village, California; and Clark Road Development, LLC and Sherwood Holdings LTD. of Sarasota, Florida.
Roy Huggins (July 18, 1914 – April 3, 2002) was an American novelist and an influential writer/creator and producer of character-driven television series, including Maverick, The Fugitive, Hunter, and The Rockford Files. He became a noted writer and producer using his own name, but much of his later television scriptwriting was done using the ...