I recently re-watched Susan Muska and Greta Olafsdottir's Emmy-nominated 1998 documentary The Brandon Teena Story, which unearthed this excruciating exchange. After all, transgender rights and visibility have increased significantly since 1993. The men responsible for those lost livesJohn Lotter and Tom Nissenare still sitting on death row today. He was studying to be a tattoo artist and died around 2015. The Brandon Teena Story. Rough crowd has its privileges. They went on to say that Teenas interview was not unusually callous. 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). Aphrodite Jones was writing a screen play and in her movie, bad people would live in bad houses. Reese Witherspoon starred in some of the 90s' most famous films, including "Man on the Moon," "Cruel Intentions," "Election," and more. He introduced Teena Brandon to a biker friend of his father, this was a grown man with a felony assault conviction about a decade older than Tom Nissen. Lana Tisdel is an American woman whose early life and involvement with the 1993 murder of Brandon Teena was chronicled in the 1998 documentary The Brandon Teena Story and the 1999 film Boys Don't Cry.She was portrayed in the film by Chlo Sevigny, who was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance as Tisdel.. The Tisdel sisters, Lana and her elder sibling, Leslie, were a Falls City itch that every local stud at loose ends . I wish I could have finished it though but I figured you were getting ready to let the transphobia start flying. where anyone can say/read anything for free! There is a photo of Linda Gutierrez taken shortly before her death with her grown kids at Leland Tisdels funeral. After Teena was assaulted at the Christmas party, she went with Lana to the lobby of a local big hotel practically across the street from Nissens house. He went to the wrong town (Falls City) & ran with the wrong crowd. Well, here we are. That was a lie. Teena Brandon from another time and place, saddled with demons few know about, and treated like dirt by the people cared for most including the love of her life, Gina Bartu, who utterly rejected her, with extreme prejudice, because Teena was marginalized and emotionally unstable to a point where she did not care if they lived in the open as a lesbian man and wife, man and wife arrangement was part of the unacceptable arrangement to Bartu, it seems. Excellent intelligence on the buildup to the rape and murder, BB. Another thing to keep in mind is that when Nissen and Lotter beat Teena they were hitting and kicking her in the belly, you should do your own research into what this means, but this is a hallmark of violence against women and indicates beaters utter contempt for the woman, and of another thing, I will not get into here. If you aint one of them? Thanks much for sending me the link. Based on the killing of transsexual Brandon Teena/Teena Renae Brandon in 1992, the film is a double portrait of sympathy and misanthropy; Brandon and her lover find a fragile peace with the truth of who they both are - and two young men . Its elements positively resonate with the real world case. Mental health and mental outlook play a big role. People who get brutally tortured are further traumatized by real or imagined abandonment. Lana already knows that, so she doesnt care, but when she relates this in her Court testimony, Lana uses interesting language she is asked, what she thought about this revelation and Lanas response is really interesting she is just an outsider, who cares what she says. The Tisdel family appeared on the TV shows Maury and A Current Affair, to discuss Brandon Teena and the trial proceedings. Lana Tisdel would convince Brandon Teena to go to an emergency room and where the doctor would be more interested in her sexuality than the actual rape. Which means that if Teena jumped bail, the County would sell Lanas house, take the rest of the bail money, $2,250.00 and give the rest of the proceeds to the Tisdels, after taking out the taxes and processing fees. Thereafter Kimberly Peirce would spin a false story about how the lawsuit actually happened. According to Wikipedia, Forbes, IMDb & Various Online resources, famous Celebrity Lana Tisdel's net worth is $1-5 Million at the age of 45 years old. There is deeper background still, but this offers a better glimpse than media into what was going on with the bail money. Worse yet, she gave them the location, where Teena was hiding out, but it wasnt her who was looking for Teena from December 28, when they found out that Teena reported the rape, until the night she was murdered. Lana Tisdel (dated Brandon) talking about what happened the night at the Christmas party at Tom Nissen's. Credit: the Brandon Teena Story (This account is for information only and a tribute account. Laux worked with Teena to trace the route through Nebraska countryside and to the location where she was raped. Another noteworthy moment in the Brandon Teena story is Linda Gutierrez showing classic signs of lying on camera. The Trail To Brandon Teena - CURVE The Brandon Teena Story | Documentary Heaven I believe that Teena acted more violent and tougher than Nissen, and intimidated him for a time. Does anyone know where I can watch the Maury Povich & Current Affair shows about the Teena Brandon case? Regarding the recently paroled convict Nissen (at the time), you say he had no employment but supported 3 kids while living in a pricey house in a pricy area. Linda Gutierrez, Lanas mother, may deserve credit here as well, since she was likely a better parent than first appears and she was likely trying to protect Lana from the street. I still dont like to talk about 9/11, too soon. Why did the shark bite the leg off a surfer? The sex was good, according to Tisdel, she also claimed that he stood up to pee. Brandon Teena's Legacy And The Devastating Hate Crime That Took His Teena was at the pay phone dialing numbers desperately trying to get a ride out of town. Did you work it up for him? and not pay At the time, she was seriously underweight . Thanks. The police described the crash like this: Brandon left his hometown of Lincoln, Nebraska, for Falls City at the age of 20, hoping to start a new life in a community where no one knew him. Soon Ill have anybody I want, and Ill give them the love that I have. why ya lookin so dismal? In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, Lana Tisdel of Falls City, Neb., claims that the film defames her and invades her privacy by using her real name without paying for it and . Part of the reason UK was skinnier than US but is now catching up is the economic stress of not being able to pay your bills or of an unexpected expense sending you into free-fall. "Brandon was nicer and looked better than any boy I'd ever been with," Tisdel later told journalist Donna Minkowitz in the original Village Voice article that launched mainstream awareness of Teena's story. That would be around December 7. Both Lana Tisdel and Tom Nissen knew that Teena was a girl before anybody else. They flesh out good and bad habits, and not all of it is self-evident or common sense. If Tom Nissens biker brother was in the same club as the biker who threatened Nissen, then his brother could protect him. What everyone forgets is that when Tom Nissen posted $250.00 bail for Teena, he was putting 10% down and the rest was putting up Lanas house as a collateral. It is a fraud felony to knowingly sign away anothers property. What Happened to Brandon Teenas Most Famous Ex? There is a really interesting research, a longitudinal study that tracked children born in 1940 and how they lived and how they died of old age. Lana M. Tisdel (born March 28, 1975) is an American woman whose early life and involvement with the 1993 murder of Brandon Teena was chronicled in the 1998 documentary The Brandon Teena Story and the 1999 film Boys Don't Cry. Well, 71 IS relatively (operative word) young given that average age of death of males is approaching 85 today (and has not been been 70-odd for several decades). Adults, namely Linda Gutierrez, acted on camera, like the two were crazy kids and she was the adult in the room. Teena Brandons rape was addressed during the murder trial, and in it, there is testimony Teena Brandon told one of the women that she was raped (not Lana), and that woman told everyone. Liz Owen, the communications director of PFLAG National in Washington D.C., arranged for Ellen James of the Omaha chapter to train Houser and his staff. Brandon Teena (right) with Lana Tisdel in 1993. Despite ample evidence, Laux neglected to apprehend and charge Lotter and Nissen, giving them the opportunity to plan and execute Brandon's murder twenty years ago today on December 31, 1993. Maybe Lanas mom charged her tenants rent. Definitely a better relationship than Teenas with her own mom and possibly better that Lanas own relationship with mom. In a rural area of the middle of nowhere SE Nebraska, who are they shaking down to finance their enterprise? Lisa Lambert worked two jobs nursing and bartending to pay rent in a small house she lived in. Wrongful death lawsuit documents claim that Teena Brandon cancelled the subsequent rape investigation appointment, because of the way Sheriff Laux was crude to her. I think that Teena Brandon deserves some real credit there. I struggled to define it, but I basically came to the conclusion that a transgender person is whatever they say they are.. I couldn't quite tell if he meant it approvinglyas if gays should avoid public displays of affectionor if he was just reporting. What aspiring mafioso or gang member, you have suggested, in Brandon goes to an area like that? If you were in a mess like this, you would be like oh my God, I dont want to see my parole officer What happens instead is that Nissen tells the Court that he was afraid of Leland Tisdel and what he would do to him for putting up the house as a collateral. Nissen is serving three life sentences at the Lincoln Correctional Center. Also, basic law-enforcement training is an intense 16 weeks at the Nebraska Law Enforcement Training Center in Grand Island, where the curriculum includes a viewing and discussion of the The Brandon Teena Story and staged sexual-assault and domestic-violence scenarios between straight and gay couples. It sounds as though her relationship with Brandon was even more complicated than it seemed. That commonality brought them close together, and Nissen drove Teena around to her Court hearings, etc. Aston was killed in the crash. That same Christmas eve, just before Nissen and Lotter descended on Teena, Nissen went to the local police station and asked that Teena Brandons bail be revoked and that she be taken back in custody. There has been scrutiny that the lack of information about DeVine, who was from Iowa, is because he was African American, and Leslie stated she believed he has been left out of the story because of racism. Teena Brandon / Brandon Teena - Boys Don't Cry - HistoryvsHollywood.com Lanas father, L.L. Tisdel was not present at the time of the murder, as it took place inside Lambert's home in Humboldt, Nebraska, a 30-minute drive away from Falls City, where Tisdel lived with her mother and sister. A law enforcement career in America offers benefits equivalent to Scandinavian socialism, except for six week vacations with pay. Everyone assumes that Teena was raped at the industrial location in the Southeastern part of Falls City. But authorities refused to say if the slayings were the result of the assault charges or Brandon's cross-dressing . Aphrodite Jones reports it wrong. Lana was one of the key witnesses in the case because of her status as Brandon's girlfriend. He started dating Lana Tisdel, and found a family of sorts in her inner circle of friends, including John Lotter and Marvin Tom Nissen. Initially friendly, Lotter and Nissen soon began to harass Teena and Tisdel and scrutinize their relationship. twas it relations gone fizzle? This was explored in great detail during Teena Brandons wrongful death suit. Teena Brandons bail was really $2,500.00 USD, but the Court took the usual 10% with the rest as collateral. Here is the interesting part: Lanas side was able to successfully stop the distribution of Boys Dont Cry in parts of Kansas and Nebraska and Kims side quickly settled for an undisclosed sum. He gave Lana a blank check for a perm, but she used it to pay Brandons $250 in bail instead. Brandon wanted to be accepted & loved for who he claimed to be a man. Why would Linda lie about this? Reese Witherspoon. I asked, hypothetically, if he'd be willing to do a LGBT-sensitivity training session with PFLAG, a queer advocacy group founded in 1972 that has done significant law enforcement outreach in the past, as a way to acknowledge the mishandling of Brandon's case and firmly close that chapter on Falls City's history. Lana Tisdel, left, the last . You are now the manager of this memorial. Learn to take that sort of thing (in a comment on the internet, for crying out loud! Her predicament was dire and in the aftermath, she bore the blame for the triple homicide. Brandon Teena was born Teena Renae Brandon, and raised in Lincoln, Nebraska - smack dab in the middle of the Bible Belt. Falls City PD were willing to arrest Nissen and Lotter for the beating that they subjected Teena after the Christmas party at Tom Nissens house, but Teena repeatedly refused to place charges. They then drove to the house of Lisa Lambert, where Brandon had been hiding out. Teena was going from a person who habitually forged signature on bank checks to being a member of the rough crowd in Falls City, where young women such as Lana Tisdels half sister were playing a support role to local men serving prison time for burglary. To find out how much progress has made its way to the Richardson County Sheriff's Office, I reached out to the current sheriff, Randy Houser, an affable 61-year-old from Omaha. If I find those notes, I will post the link here. She took Lisas car and went to hang out in Falls City. Brandon had dated Lambert and was dating another woman, Lana Tisdel, at the time of his death. . Her boyfriend, Conrad Roy III, had . Lisas surviving son, Tanner, I think he blames Teena for his mothers death and he blocks any Brandon fans who try contacting him for information on social networking sites. Apparently there is Teena's prison letter to Lana, where Teena is morosely doing time, pacing the cell and doing push ups and chin ups. Her obituary didnt disclose her cause of death. Two Decades After Brandon Teena's Murder, a Look Back at Falls City The duo spent more than five years researching and reporting the case, even moving into an apartment in Falls City to attend all the trials and sentencings. Teena Brandon was running away from being the lowest rung of the underworld society. BIRTHDAY STAR: Actress Chloe Sevigny was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, on this day in 1974. Suffice to say that Lana would have expected both parents to make 80+ with average health. Teena was Lanas friend, whatever that friendship was, and Lana betrayed her, by not warning her. Teena said that she wanted to be a commercial artist, but she was a far more talented actress, and when in high school, she took more religious electives than she did art classes. So, we have Leland Tisdel, an agricultural worker living in a very small house, as we would expect. Of course, those in the lower socioeconomic deciles are more likely not to make the average. I take it shes still alive and confused her being dead from the other guy she got in an accident with that died from his injuries from her old town of Falls Cedar. . I was not required to agree with BBs views in any way. Trial transcripts, diaries or books, perhaps? What kind of a person would NOT comfort a young woman who was raped? Marcus, I agree about average age, but thats for the comfortable middle class. Teena started dating Lana Tisdel in 1992, and it seemed he may have finally found his match. "United States Public Records, 19702009," database, FamilySearch (May 23, 2014), Lana M Tisdel, Grant, Nebraska, United States; a third party aggregator of publicly available information. Nissen and Lotter sent their girlfriends and children out of the house to spare them the violence of the sexual violence that they were planning. When I first came across all these facts, I got a distinct inpression that Teena ran into something bigger than the two, maybe the local Ku Klux KLan, but then based on forensic evidence, I now believe that the person who shot the three people was an angry woman hater. This man either recognized Teena as a female or he had something on her, because he started screaming at Teena and left in a huff, promising to beat up Tom Nissen. The big question is whether Lana can be blamed for leaving Teena in the company of her rapists, who had just got done humiliating her at a social gathering. Brandon Teena The Boy Who Should've Stayed Alive. C: [A]fter he pulled your pants down and seen you was a girl, what did he do? Carolyn Gage. The only person who didnt know that her pants were going to get pulled off at that Christmas Party was Teena herself. The Tragic Story Of Brandon Teena Only Hinted At In 'Boys Don't Cry' The Tragic Murder Of Brandon Teena, Whose Case Inspired 'Boys - Ranker Sheriff Laux was attempting to prosecute Tom Nissen for rape, but the rape victim had changed her mind and refused to cooperate after she agreed to press charges and the District Attorneys office was involved. HandMaid's Tale: The Real-Life Partners Revealed! | OSSA Radar With Brandons murder too and a dad who died relatively young, thats much loss. Lana Tisdel - Popular Bio Your Daily Astrology: Thursday, November 18, 2021 for 11/18/21 If call Lotter and Nissen as part of the Rough Crowd in Falls City, then Michelle Lotter, Lana Tisdels half sister, and a couple of others, were the female parts of the rough crowd, and these girls were on record visiting all the acquaintances and Lisa Lamberts distant relatives, canvassing to find out where Teena was hiding, once they found out that Teena was staying with Lisa Lambert, Linda Gutierrez told John Lotter and Tom Nissen, where Lisa Lamberts house was. He has rationalized his role to the point where he's blameless. Lanas dad did not die relatively young. Teena implores, but Lana abandons her. So, what is the big reveal about Lisa Lambert, that she was gay or bi? Falls City is one track minded ppl. Lana Tisdel net worth and salary income estimation The comment did not burn my eyes or convert me into a transphobe who thinks Brandon was just a confused woman. Teena Brandon herself thought that Lana set her up to get raped, and some folks in Falls City, friends of the convicted, actually, who believe that Lana should have been charged along with the other two. I asked, hypothetically, if he'd be willing to do a LGBT-sensitivity training session with PFLAG, a queer advocacy group founded in 1972 that has done significant law enforcement outreach in the past, as a way to acknowledge the mishandling of .