Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 08:43:30 -0400 From: Riki Anne Wilchins Subject: IYF - Murder in Cleveland / National Mags Do Gender / Brandon Film Opens --=====================_328427183==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" InYourFace Online News MEDIA ADVISORY - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Editor: Clare Howell, Clare@gpac.org * Transgender Woman Murdered in Cleveland * TIme and Newsweek Do Gender * "Boy's Don't Cry" -- Brandon's Story at Last TRANSGENDERED WOMAN MURDERED IN CLEVELAND =========================================== Contact: Gay People's Chronicle Ohio's Weekly Gay Newspaper chronicle@chronohio.com [Cleveland, OH: 5 Oct 99] ACCORDING TO A SOURCE at the Gay People's Chronicle, the body of Chareka Keys, a transgendered woman, was found on a loading dock at the corner of Central and 69th streets in Cleveland Ohio on the morning of September 27th. The Cleveland Police Department list the cause of death as a blow to the head. There are no suspects. Ms. Keys is the tenth murder this year In what appears to be an escalating cycle of violence against transgendered and gender-different people ### "TIME" AND "NEWSWEEK" DO GENDER =============================== [New York, NY 5 Oct 99] BOTH TIME AND NEWSWEEK this week feature important stories on gender. In a piece titled "He? She? Whatever!" Time Magazine details the firing of Sacramento teacher Dana Rivers when she transitioned from David Warfield, Center High's award-wining journalism teacher and baseball coach. Students and townspeople have already held 2 demonstrations demanding that the school board -- dominated by conservative forces and backed by the right-wing Pacific Justice Fund -- reinstate her. Newsweek Magazine weighs in with a review of Kim Pierce's devastating new film from Fox Searchlight on the murder of Brandon Teena -- "Boy's Don't Cry." This presumeably means the film version of Aphrodite Jones sensationalistic book " All S/he Wanted," optioned by Diane Keaton to star Drew Barrymore (?!?) is will be on permanent hold. [See story below] ### "BOY'S DON'T CRY" - BRANDON' STORY AT LAST ======================================= [New York, NY 1 Oct 99] KIMBERLY PIERCE'S DEVASTATING film of the life and murder of Brandon Teena previewed in New York this evening. Calling it "spectacular," Newseek's David Ansen hailed its "tragic force... agonizing [and] honestly earned." Ms. Pierce was one of forty gender activists and members of Transexual Menace who travelled to Falls City, NB and held a memorial vigil outside the courthouse where killers John Lotter and Tom Nissen went on trial in 1993. "Boy's Don't Cry" is already being cited by critics as a breakthrough film. Gone is the coy condescension and lurid sensationalism of every treatment from books like "All S/he Wanted" to articles in the New Yorker, Playboy and the Village Voice. Shot straight ahead -- with dignity, accuracy, and a knowing compassion -- "Boy's Don't Cry" tells Brandon's life and death as a true-to-life love story of gender, hope, and small-town hatred. Starring the boyishly handsome Hillary Swank ("90210") as Brandon and the sloe-eyed Chole Sevigny ("Last Days of Disco") as his lover, Lana Tisdale, the film opens in New York October 8. RIP, Brandon. ### Subscriptions. Please contact: Subscribe@gpac.org For prior releases, check the GenderPAC website at: http://www.gpac.org (c) 1999 InYourFace GenderPAC's independent online news-only service for gender activism. The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of GenderPAC's Board, Officers, or membership. --=====================_328427183==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" InYourFace Online News

MEDIA ADVISORY - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Editor: Clare Howell, Clare@gpac.org

* Transgender Woman Murdered in Cleveland
* TIme and Newsweek Do Gender
* "Boy's Don't Cry" -- Brandon's Story at Last

TRANSGENDERED WOMAN MURDERED IN CLEVELAND
===========================================

Contact: Gay People's Chronicle
Ohio's Weekly Gay Newspaper
chronicle@chronohio.com

[Cleveland, OH: 5 Oct 99] ACCORDING TO A SOURCE
at the Gay People's Chronicle, the body of Chareka Keys,
a transgendered woman, was found on a loading dock at the
corner of Central and 69th streets in Cleveland Ohio
on the morning of September 27th.

   The Cleveland Police Department list the cause of death as
a blow to the head. There are no suspects.

    Ms. Keys is the tenth murder this year In what appears to be
an escalating cycle of violence against transgendered and
gender-different people

                               ###

"TIME" AND "NEWSWEEK" DO GENDER
===============================

[New York, NY 5 Oct 99] BOTH TIME AND NEWSWEEK
this week feature important stories on gender.

   In a piece titled "He? She? Whatever!" Time Magazine
details the firing of Sacramento teacher Dana Rivers
when she transitioned from David Warfield, Center High's
award-wining journalism teacher and baseball coach. Students
and townspeople have already held 2 demonstrations demanding
that the school board -- dominated by conservative forces and
backed by the right-wing Pacific Justice Fund -- reinstate her.

    Newsweek Magazine weighs in with a review of Kim Pierce's
devastating new film from Fox Searchlight on the murder of
Brandon Teena -- "Boy's Don't Cry." This presumeably means
the film version of Aphrodite Jones sensationalistic book "
All S/he Wanted," optioned by Diane Keaton to star
Drew Barrymore (?!?) is will be on permanent hold.

[See story below]

                             ###

"BOY'S DON'T CRY" - BRANDON' STORY AT LAST
=======================================

[New York, NY 1 Oct 99] KIMBERLY PIERCE'S DEVASTATING
film of the life and murder of Brandon Teena previewed in
New York this evening. Calling it "spectacular," Newseek's
David Ansen hailed its "tragic force... agonizing [and] honestly
earned."

    Ms. Pierce was one of forty gender activists and members
of Transexual Menace who travelled to Falls City, NB and held
a memorial vigil outside the courthouse where killers John
Lotter and Tom Nissen went on trial in 1993.

    "Boy's Don't Cry" is already being cited by critics as a
breakthrough film. Gone is the coy condescension and
lurid sensationalism of every treatment from books like
"All S/he Wanted" to articles in the New Yorker, Playboy
and the Village Voice. Shot straight ahead -- with dignity,
accuracy, and a knowing compassion -- "Boy's Don't Cry"
tells Brandon's life and death as a true-to-life love story
of gender, hope, and small-town hatred.

    Starring the boyishly handsome Hillary Swank ("90210")
as Brandon and the sloe-eyed Chole Sevigny ("Last Days of Disco")
as his lover, Lana Tisdale, the film opens in New York October 8.
RIP, Brandon.

                                   ###

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