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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 Chloë Sevigny, who was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance as Tisdel. The director of the film, Kimberly Pierce, worked on the script for many years and interviewed Lana and her mother for details on their life. Pierce also drew information from other sources including ''All She Wanted'' by Aphrodite Jones (1996), a biography of Brandon Teena and the lives of those involved with the murders; and a 1994 Village Voice piece written by Donna Minkowitz which was responsible for the story becoming a media sensation in the early 1990s. ==Background== In the fall of 1993, Tisdel, aged 19, met Brandon Teena, 20, through their mutual friends. Teena was new to the close-knit area, from Lincoln, Nebraska, and the local crowd was curious about him. Teena and Tisdel began seeing each other, because Tisdel found Teena attractive, believing he was cisgender male. He was in fact born female, but identified as male. Tisdel has made it clear that her relationship with Brandon Teena was brief and did not include sex; only lasting about two months from their first meeting until the murder. However, the two months of their relationship is described as very intense. Her mother Linda, testified that Tisdel would be with Brandon all day, had trouble sleeping, and their relationship was all she cared about during that time.〔http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1994-01-17/features/9401170002_1_john-lotter-falls-city-lincoln/3 accessed 2/17/2015〕 On December 19, 1993, Brandon Teena was arrested for forging checks, and put in jail for several days. Tisdel found out he was born female after his birth name (Teena Renae Brandon) was printed in the local newspaper in the arrests section. Tisdel paid to get him out of jail, and he told her that he was undergoing sex reassignment surgery. Tisdel has disputed claims that after the truth was revealed to her, they continued a romantic relationship, but instead she told Brandon that they could still be friends. Tisdel defended Teena often, at one point lying to authorities and telling them she had seen him naked and saw his penis, in hopes they would leave him alone. Two people that they were friends with during this time were John Lotter and Tom Nissen. Both young men had criminal records, and Teena had been staying with Nissen. Falls City, Nebraska, being a small town, meant that all of these families were well acquainted, and Lana's best friend was Michelle Lotter, John's sister. Initially friendly, Lotter and Nissen soon began to harass Teena and Tisdel and scrutinize their relationship. During a Christmas Eve party, Lotter and Nissen forced Teena to take off his clothes, to show everyone, including Lana, that he was female-bodied. The two then kidnapped Teena to a rural area and raped and beat him. Afterwards, Teena came to Tisdel's house, and Tisdel and her mother convinced him to speak to the police, and go to the hospital. Lotter and Nissen had told Teena that if they told anyone what they did, they would kill him. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lana Tisdel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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