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Both McKinney and Henderson were convicted of the murder, and each received two consecutive life sentences. Shepard's murder, along with that of Brandon Teena, led to increased lobbying for hate crime laws in the United States. [120] [121] Rita Hester was a transgender African American woman who was murdered in Allston, Massachusetts in 1998. [139]
She reported on the Brandon Teena story, and her Village Voice article on the subject was said by director Kimberly Peirce to have been the original inspiration for the film Boys Don't Cry. Awards and honors. Minkowitz won a GLAAD Media Award. Newsweek Magazine listed her as one of "30 gay power brokers" in the country in 1993.
Teena may refer to: People. Brandon Teena (1972–1993), American murder victim; Teena Marie (1956–2010), American singer, songwriter, and producer; Teena Rochfort-Smith (1861–1883), British Shakespeare scholar and philologist; Fictional characters. Teena (comic strip), a cartoon panel series and comic strip created by Hilda Terry
Queer anti-urbanism manifests in practice in a variety of ways, which Herring refers to under the umbrella term of "critical rusticity." Some examples include the rural, all-female "Lesbian Separatist" communities that consciously spurned "the city" in favor of rural alternatives to a subjugated status under metronormative, white-male-centric, upper-middle-class gay culture.
Teena may refer to: People. Brandon Teena (1972–1993), American murder victim; Teena Marie (1956–2010), American singer, songwriter, and producer; Teena Rochfort-Smith (1861–1883), British Shakespeare scholar and philologist; Fictional characters. Teena (comic strip), a cartoon panel series and comic strip created by Hilda Terry
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. The Transgender Day of Remembrance was founded in 1998 by Gwendolyn Ann Smith , an American transgender graphic designer, columnist, and activist, [ 79 ] to memorialize the murder of transgender woman ...
Brandon Tholmer (born 1949) is an American serial killer and rapist responsible for at least 12 murders of elderly women. The killings occurred between January 1981 and October 1983 in Los Angeles ' West Side , which earned Tholmer the nickname of The West Side Rapist . [ 1 ]
The murder of Cassie Jo Stoddart was a thrill killing that occurred in Pocatello, Idaho, on September 22, 2006. [1] Stoddart, a 16-year-old high school student, was stabbed and murdered by her classmates Brian Draper and Torey Adamcik both 16, in her aunt and uncle's house.