Murder of Brandon Teena

Date: December 31, 1993 • Location: Pawnee City, United States

Brandon Teena, an American trans man, was raped and murdered in Humboldt, Nebraska; his death led to increased lobbying for hate crime laws in the United States.

Brandon Teena was an American transgender man who was murdered, along with Phillip DeVine and Lisa Lambert, in Humboldt, Nebraska, by John Lotter and Tom Nissen, in what would become known as the Humboldt Murders. His life and death are the subject of the films The Brandon Teena Story and Boys Don't Cry. The murders, along with that of Matthew Shepard nearly five years later, led to increased lobbying for hate crime laws in the United States.