Each year, people across the country recognize and take part in Transgender Awareness Week, a week-long period dedicated to educating the broader society on transgender topics and the issues they face in the ongoing effort towards social justice. The week typically culminates on November 20th, National Transgender Remembrance Day, which memorializes those transgender/transsexual people who have lost their lives in acts of hatred or transphobia.
Please join Allies & Advocates for a screening of "The Brandon Teena Story" and a Q&A about the legal issues affecting the transgender community, on Tuesday, November 13th, from 7:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. in Room 109
The film is about Brandon Teena (aka Teena Brandon), a transgender person from Lincoln, who was murdered along with two other people in 1993, in Falls City, Nebraska. This documentary is the true story behind the film "Boys Don't Cry," and is told through interviews with people in Falls City and Lincoln, recorded interrogation and trial transcripts, and photographs. The film is 90 minutes long and will start at approximately 8:00 p.m., followed by the Q&A.
Snacks will be provided so please RSVP to prairiepride.unllaw@gmail.com by Monday, November 12th.
For more information, please see the following links.
http://www.queerinjustice.com/
http://www.brandonteena.org/
Estate of Brandon v. Richardson County http://www.brandonteena.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=56:01brandon-estate-of-brandon-v-county-of-richardson&catid=17&Itemid=119
Allies & Advocates is a law student organization created to foster awareness of legal issues that impact lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, and to create a more welcoming environment for GLBTQ law students at UNL.