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A Filmmaker Fictionalizes to Get at Difficult Truths

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Newspaper clipping originally published in the Los Angeles Times on February 7, 2000. The piece features quotes from various people associated with the production of the 1999 film "Boys Don't Cry" and is the a follow-up article to a "truth-in-movies" debate by the same author, published in the LA Times on February 6, 2000. Content warning: This item relates to the death of Brandon Teena, who was murdered and sexually assaulted as the target of gruesome anti-LGBT hate crimes. Brandon's death became a major news item, and the language used to describe his identity and depict the violence he suffered by contemporary press coverage ranges from insensitive to outright cruel.

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