Transgender Activism After Falls City
Against The Current vol. 89
Cartwright, Donna
http://www.solidarity-us.org//node/966
Date Written: 2000-11-01
Publisher: Against The Current
Year Published: 2000
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX12953
The critical acclaim for Kimberly Peirce's film "Boys Don't Cry," and Hilary Swank's Academy Award-winning performance in it as Brandon Teena, have focused public attention on a real-life hate crime that both galvanized the nascent transgender activist movement in the mid-1990s and highlighted tensions between that movement and other parts of the queer community.
