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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 .
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.
Lana M. Tisdel (born May 28, 1975) 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).
Kimberly Ane Peirce [2] (born September 8, 1967) is an American filmmaker, best known for her debut feature film, Boys Don't Cry (1999), which won Hilary Swank her first Academy Award for Best Actress. Peirce's second feature, Stop-Loss, was released by Paramount Pictures in 2008. Her third film Carrie was released on October 18, 2013.
Joyce Napier (sister-in-law) Norman Gene Macdonald [i] (October 17, 1959 [ii] – September 14, 2021) was a Canadian stand-up comedian, actor, and writer whose style was characterized by deadpan delivery and the use of folksy, old-fashioned turns of phrase. [1] [2] [3] He appeared in many films and was a regular guest on late-night talk shows ...
Boys Don't Cry is a 2010 novel by Malorie Blackman. [1] The novel explores the experience of Dante as he discovers that he is the father of a child by his ex-girlfriend. [1] In The Guardian, Mary Hoffman described the novel as "a good book and a great story." [1] Hoffman says that "how Dante comes to terms with fatherhood and his ...
Written by band members Michael Dempsey, Robert Smith and Lol Tolhurst, the lyrics tell the story of a man who has given up trying to regain the love that he has lost, and tries to disguise his true emotional state. In an interview with the NME, Smith stated: And as an English boy at the time, you’re encouraged not to show your emotion to any ...
Blonde (Frank Ocean album), working title Boys Don't Cry, 2016; Songs "Boys Don't Cry" (The Cure song), 1979, also covered by Nathan Larson for the 1999 film soundtrack "Boys Don't Cry" (Moulin Rouge song), 1987 "Boys Don't Cry", by MC Chris from Eating's Not Cheating, 2004 "Boys Don't Cry", by Natalia Kills from Trouble, 2013 "Boys Don't Cry ...