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	Brandon Teena Story
		Brandon Teena was a handsome boy who had tremendous success with women because he always seemed to know exactly what they wanted.
		Perhaps it helped that Brandon Teena was born Teena Brandon, a young woman who desperately wanted to be a man. But Brandon lived in a small Midwestern town, where his sexual identity crisis wasn't tolerated, inciting two so-called friends to brutally murder him and two other innocents.
		This insightful film is both fascinating and horrifying, as we are treated to news footage and interviews with Brandon's family, friends, former girlfriends, as well as the two men who are in jail (one on death row) for the rape and later murder of Brandon.
	www.oxfordcoach.com /bs/teena.html (394 words)

	glbtq >> social sciences >> Teena, Brandon
		Teena's life and death eventually became the subject of two critically acclaimed films: the 1998 documentary The Brandon Teena Story (directed by Susan Muska and Greta Olafsdottir) and the 1999 feature Boys Don't Cry (directed by Kimberly Peirce), for which Hilary Swank, as Brandon, won an Academy Award as Best Actress.
		Brandon Teena, a biological female, was born Teena Renae Brandon on December 12, 1972 in Lincoln, Nebraska.
		During childhood, Teena was a tomboy, and as an adolescent he wrestled with both gender identity and sexual orientation issues.
	www.glbtq.com /social-sciences/teena_b.html (1065 words)

	Brandon Teena
		Teena was forced to attend counseling where it came out that she had been molested when she was younger.
		Brandon told her that he was a hermaphrodite and that he was planning to have a sex change.
		Brandon was shot twice in the head and stabbed to 'make sure he was dead.' Lisa Lambert was shot in the chest and in the eye.
	brandonteena0912.tripod.com /id4.html (628 words)

	The Brandon Teena Story \| The Onion - America's Finest News Source (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Teena is clearly bizarre, but her—yes, her—terrible death is in many ways overshadowed by the more unusual elements of her life.
		Brandon Teena was actually Teena Brandon, a young Nebraska woman who lived her life as a young man. With eerily boyish looks and a knack for treating women well, she dressed as a man and went by the name Brandon Teena.
		Why Brandon tried to settle down in a depressing and economically depressed community rife with domestic violence, homophobia, and general intolerance is never made clear, though filmmakers Susan Muska and Gréta Olafsdóttir make it abundantly clear that her untimely death was tragically predictable.
	www.theonion.com /content/node/754 (326 words)

	Brandon Teena
		Teena was hanging around with a group of friends that thought she was male.
		Their views, which have often been reported in the news media, include the belief that Teena was murdered because she was living her life as a boy, that she was having sexual relations with other girls including the ex-girlfriend of one of the men who murdered her.
		The day before her murder, Teena was supposed to go to the police station for a followup interview, however, when she arrived, she saw that John was there, so she never actually went inside.
	home.comcast.net /~corkymcg/crime/teena.html (2052 words)

	Brandon Teena
		Brandon Teena was someone who was trying to live his own life in the only way he knew how.
		Brandon Teena, whose birth name was Teena Brandon, was originally from Lincoln, Nebraska, and moved to nearby Humboldt in 1993, shortly after beginning to live full-time as a man in preparation for eventual sex-change surgery.
		Brandon passed easily as a man in Humboldt, but was discovered to be biologically and legally female by local police who arrested him on a misdemeanor check forgery charge two weeks prior to his slaying.
	songweaver.com /gender/teena-sentencing.html (1068 words)

	Boys Don't Cry (1999)
		The story of the life of Brandon Teena, a transgendered teen who preferred life in a male identity until it was discovered he was born biologically female.
		Miscellaneous: Near the beginning of the movie when Teena's wallet spills to the floor, her license clearly is an Iowa driver's license.
		Hilary Swank, who did receive an Oscar, pulls off an absolute barnstormer of a performance as Brandon Teena, it is easily one of the boldest and most memorable performances I saw in the 20th century.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0171804 (598 words)

	The Brandon Teena Story Tells a Tragic Tale of Intolerance and Murder in America's Heartland
		On December 31, 1993, Teena Brandon, Lisa Lambert and Philip DeVine were found shot to death in a farmhouse in rural Humbolt, Nebraska.
		THE BRANDON TEENA STORY examines this young victim's life, one made especially difficult by a gender identity crisis that was compounded by the fear and prejudice many people exhibit towards non-heterosexuals.
		Brandon Teena's story began in Lincoln, Nebraska, where Teena Brandon grew up with her mother and older sister.
	www.timewarner.com /corp/newsroom/pr/0,20812,667359,00.html (591 words)

	Brandon Teena (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Brandon Teena, whose birth name was Teena Brandon, was originally from Lincoln, Nebraska, and moved to nearby Humboldt in 1993, shortly after beginning to live full-time as a man in preparation for eventual sex-change surgery.
		Brandon passed easily as a man in Humboldt, but was discovered to be biologically and legally female by local police who arrested him on a misdemeanor check forgery charge two weeks prior to his slaying.
		One week later, on Christmas Day 1993, Brandon was raped and assaulted at a Christmas party by two men, whom he identified to local police as Nissen and Lotter, despite the fact that they had threatened to kill him if he reported the incident to the police.
	data.club.cc.cmu.edu /~julie/text/teenarage.html (963 words)

	AMCTV.com SHOW - The Brandon Teena Story
		This gripping documentary reconstructs the life and the murder of Brandon Teena in rural Nebraska.
		Teena was born a female, "Teena Brandon," in Lincoln, Neb. At age 20 she began living as a man in Falls City, Neb., never revealing to new friends that, anatomically, he was a woman.
		Once his secret was uncovered, he was the victim of a brutal rape; shortly after Teena reported that rape to the police, he and two others were found murdered on New Year's Day 1993.
	www.amctv.com /show/detail?CID=59708-1-UTC (103 words)

	Brandon Teena - AskTheBrain.com
		In 1993, Brandon Teena was a fresh-scrubbed young man of twenty who moved to the small town of Falls City, Nebraska.
		She is the mother of Brandon Teena, a female-to-male transgendered person who was raped and murdered when the fact that he was not born male was discovered.
		As Brandon Teena, she lived as a man even having girlfriends who didn't know or chose to ignore the truth.
	www.askthebrain.com /brandon_teena-.html (344 words)

	The Brandon Teena Story \| The A.V. Club
		Teena is clearly bizarre, but her—yes, her—terrible death is in many ways overshadowed by the more unusual elements of her life.
		Brandon Teena was actually Teena Brandon, a young Nebraska woman who lived her life as a young man. With eerily boyish looks and a knack for treating women well, she dressed as a man and went by the name Brandon Teena.
		Why Brandon tried to settle down in a depressing and economically depressed community rife with domestic violence, homophobia, and general intolerance is never made clear, though filmmakers Susan Muska and Gréta Olafsdóttir make it abundantly clear that her untimely death was tragically predictable.
	www.avclub.com /content/node/754 (342 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: The Brandon Teena Story
		Brandon Teena, see, was really Teena Brandon — a young woman masquerading as a young man to gain the affections of lonely female hearts from Lincoln to Falls City.
		Brandon's masquerade finally ended with a gang rape and, a few days later, a gunshot in the face as part of a gruesome triple-homicide.
		Some of these interviews are arresting examples of provincial minds wrestling with sexual aberration and horrific crime — such as the local sheriff's hostile interrogation of Brandon after her rape, or another murder victim's father rambling about his hydraulic clutch the day he lost his daughter.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/b/brandonteena.q.shtml (345 words)

	Print this Article: Brandon Teena case back in court \| Advocate.com
		The years-long battle to secure justice and accountability for the murder of Brandon Teena--a transgendered 21-year-old who was brutally raped and then killed by his rapists after law enforcement officials failed to intervene--reaches the Nebraska supreme court for the second time Tuesday, when justices will hear arguments over financial damages awarded to the victim's mother.
		"Brandon Teena was devalued as a human being by his murderers.
		Even though the supreme court had ruled unanimously that the minimal damages awarded to JoAnn Brandon "shocks the conscience," the lower court recently awarded just $7,000 for the emotional distress suffered by Teena before his death and just $5,000--less than even the funeral expenses--for the loss to the mother.
	www.advocate.com /print_article_ektid13829.asp (263 words)

	Justice Junctions Judicial Injustice - Brandon Teena - A Life That Should Have Been Lived by Anna M. Griffy
		Brandon had been living in a small town called Falls City,Nebraska, drifting here and there, avoiding her family and people who had given her warnings to stay away from the local girls.
		Brandon was Teena, and her own family was horrified by everything she had kept from them.
		Brandon shrieked and fought but it was two on one and Brandon was a slight figured man. A woman.
	www.justicejunction.com /judicial_injustice_brandon_teena.htm (963 words)

	DVD Empire - Item - Brandon Teena Story / DVD-Video (Site not responding. Last check: )
		By the time Teena Brandon was 21, she was living in Falls City, Nebraska, and assuming a new identity as a young man. Now Brandon Teena, he dated several women, showering them with flowers, gifts and compliments.
		The Brandon Teena Story is a very honest, open look at the story of the life and death of Brandon Teena, a teenager with a gender-identity crisis.
		Brandon Teena was born Tina Brandon, but assumed his life as a male during adolesence.
	www.dvdempire.com /Exec/v4_item.asp?item_id=10944&partner_id=83144778 (291 words)

	The Brandon Teena Story. - movie reviews Advocate, The - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Murdered in 1993 at the age of 21, Brandon Teenas was born Teena Brandon but as a teenager decided to live as a male.
		While Teena's romantic deceptions ("He treated the girlfriends really well when he wasn't cheating on them," says Olafsdottir) and history of pretty theft make him a less-than-angelic victim, the filmmakers believe he was not that different from many young people confused about their sexuality.
		Brandon was not a bad person but definitely had a lot of problems and didn't know how to get help the right way.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1589/is_n769/ai_21152510 (520 words)

	MetroActive Movies \| The Brandon Teena Story
		Those born between sexes, as Teena Brandon was in Nebraska in 1973, have a sort of secret knowledge that the rest of us can only guess at it, bounded as we are by the fact of our own gender.
		The young Brandon, who switched his/her name to Brandon Teena when taking a male identity, is the subject of the harrowing documentary The Brandon Teena Story, playing at the Castro Feb. 19-25.
		Brandon was good-looking, had plenty of charisma and lots of girlfriends--"he was a girl's dream," says one of them.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sfmetro/02.15.99/brandonteenstory-9905.html (668 words)

	Teena Brandon / Brandon Teena - Boys Don't Cry
		Teena's mother, JoAnn Brandon, was upset that Hilary Swank referred to her daughter in her speech as Brandon Teena, her daughter's male alter ego.
		JoAnn Brandon, Teena's mother, was upset that the filmmakers failed to
		The two men were convicted of the murder of Teena Brandon, who used the alias Brandon Teena when she posed as a man. They killed the 21-year-old in an attempt to silence her after she told the police that they raped her when they learned her true gender.
	www.chasingthefrog.com /reelfaces/boysdontcry.php (825 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| Boys Don't Cry
		For those who don’t know, Teena Renae Brandon (1973-1992) was born a girl but saw herself increasingly as a boy — not as a dyke who loved women but as a heterosexual male.
		Her Brandon is gentle and engaging in an almost "girlish" way, comfortable with and charismatic to women, but drawn to the look — sports shirts and wrangler jeans — and rituals of men.
		She balances Brandon’s swagger and seemingly uncrackable optimism with quietly devastating moments when Brandon is forced to acknowledge Teena — desperately binding her breasts, checking her underwear, nervously stuffing socks down her pants, practicing boy smiles and boy leers in the mirror.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /27/boysdontcry.html (858 words)

	THE BRANDON TEENA STORY previously at Film Forum in New York City
		When 20 year old Brandon Teena arrived in rural Falls City, Nebraska, in 1993, his handsome good looks and boyish charm won him several friends in town and even a pretty young girlfriend.
		But only three weeks later, on Christmas Eve, Brandon was brutally raped and beaten by two of his friends, who became enraged when they discovered that he was actually a woman.
		Brandon's story is that of a gentle character whose sexuality makes him a target of redneck intolerance and violence in a peaceful but conservative middle American community.
	www.filmforum.org /archivedfilms/teena.html (383 words)

	Amazon.com: The Brandon Teena Story: Video: JoAnne Brandon,Kate Bornstein,Lana Tisdel,John Lotter,Tom Nissen,Brandon ...
		Brandon Teena was a handsome boy who had tremendous success with women because he always seemed to know exactly what they wanted.
		Perhaps it helped that Brandon Teena was born Teena Brandon, a young woman who desperately wanted to be a man. But Brandon lived in a small Midwestern town, where his sexual identity crisis wasn't tolerated, inciting two so-called friends to brutally murder him and two other innocents.
		This insightful film is both fascinating and horrifying, as we are treated to news footage and interviews with Brandon's family, friends, former girlfriends, as well as the two men who are in jail (one on death row) for the rape and later murder of Brandon.
	www.amazon.com /Brandon-Teena-Story-JoAnne/dp/B000035P98 (484 words)

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