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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 .
The Brandon Teena Story. 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] After its theatrical release, it aired on Cinemax as part of ...
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]
While gay rights activism gained greater attention and support, the hate crime murders of Brandon Teena, a young transgender man, in 1993 and Matthew Shepard in 1998 shook the country.
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 .
2019 – Chynal Lindsey, 26, an African American transgender woman, was murdered by Ruben Alvarado in Dallas, Texas. Alvarado met with Lindsey for a sexual encounter, and killed her upon discovering that she was a trans woman. He was convicted of first degree murder, and sentenced to 37 years in prison.
The opening sentence in the lead says "Brandon Teena (December 12, 1972 – December 31, 1993) was an American trans man who was raped and murdered in Humboldt, Nebraska." Trans man means "male who was asigned 'female' at birth" i.e. born biologically female but self-identifies as male.
Brandon Teena (December 12, 1972 - December 31, 1993) was a transgendered person, born with female sexual characteristics but self-identifying as male. Born Teena Renae Brandon in Lincoln, Nebraska but known simply as Brandon, he was raped and eventually murdered in one of the most infamous American hate crimes of the 1990s...