Brandon Teena Research Paper

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One of such incidents that happened in 1993 in Falls city, Nebraska, narrates the story of Brandon Teena who challenged hegemonic norms, she was murdered so that the traditional ideals of gender and heterosexuality could stay intact and to discipline other transgressors like her. The 21 year woman, Teena Brandon, who dressed like a male, was raped and brutally assaulted by her two friends John Lotter and Marvin Nissen. Almost a week later, Lotter and Nissen broke into the home where Brandon was staying and fatally shot and stabbed Brandon and two others to death who were also present there. But what really caught the news and media’s attention was that Brandon was a girl who had adopted the mannerisms of a man, he dressed like a man, he socialized