The Brandon Teena Story

Forget about the movie. I wanna talk about the real person who had gone through hell.

Brandon Teena was a gay youth who died in 1993. Her life events are thought-provoking, regretful and inspiring at the same time. When first writing this article, I bawled like a baby because I felt an innocent person who deserved a good life had died unjustly.

Brandon Teena was a female to male transgender. He was born in the wrong body so to speak. What a curse.

This is Brandon Teena.
Brandon Teena is said to be very charming, charismatic and a real ladies man. He was very popular with the girls. I can imagine why:

                                                     gorgeous isn't he?

Name: Teena Renae Brandon
Born: 12th December 1972, Lincoln, Nebraska
Died: 31 December 1993 (aged 21), Humboldt, Nebraska.
Cause of Death: Murder by gunshot.
 Pseudonyms: Billy Brinson, Teena Ray
Nationality: American

This is a cronological order of her life and till death.

*~ Teena was born in Lincoln, Nebraska. His father died before he was born. He has an older sister Tammy. He lived with his mother.
*~ His uncle sexually abused him and his sister when they were young. This can explain his preference for female.
*~ Brandon had always been a tomboy. He began dating a girl in his adolescence.
*~ Brandon wanted to be in the army but was rejected when he labelled his sex as 'male'.
*~ Brandon binded his breasts to look like a boy. He was said to be a very happy person - 'class clown'.
*~ He officially began cross-dressing and had several relationships.
*~ In the new town where he moved with his friends, he met Lana Tisdell, whom he was seriously in love with. He also made friends with John Lotter and Tom Nissen - both whom were ex convicts.
*~ Brandon was convinced by his mother to receive psychiatric evaluation and was diagnosed with having severe gender identity crisis. That was also when he told his mother than he had been raped by his uncle.
*~ In 1993, Brandon was arrested for forging cheques and spent a night in the women's lock-up. Thats when the townsfolk found out he was actually a female. And this was also the start of his disaster.
*~ During a Christmas Eve party, Lotter and Nissen forced Brandon in a bathroom to proof that he was female. They pulled his pants down while Tisdell just looked.
*~ Later that night, Lotter and Nissen forced him into a car, drove to a meat packing factory and brutally raped him. They threatened to silence him permanently if he told anyone.
* They took him to Nissen's house where Brandon escaped through Nissen's bathroom window. Brandon managed to flee and get Tisdell to lodge a police report.
*~ The Sheriff was more interested in Brandon's transexuality and found his questions rude so I guess he never filed a report. =\
*~ Lotter and Nissen managed to know of the report and sought out Brandon, who was staying with two other women. They killed(shot) Brandon and the two other women.
*~ Nissen and Lotter was charged with first degree murder and now serving life sentence.

These are other pictures of him.

      The far right below is Brandon's mugshot after his arrest for cheque forgery.

                Brandon with Lana Tisdell, top and below picture.

This is his resting place:

Honestly, I find this gravestone engraving extremely distasteful. Im sure Brandon would've wanted his gravestone to read "Son, Brother & Friend".

Homophobia has got to stop. It doesnt matter what one's sexual orientation is, love is love. Everyone deserves to experience it! There are many straight people who still aren't open-minded about gays and lesbians. They need to know that their ignorance and hatred and prejudice could one day cause someone's death. THIS HAS GOT TO STOP.

Brandon Teena may had a colorful life but that doesnt mean he deserves to die. He was an innocent young man who had so much in life and would have been someone influential in the gay community. What a wasted lost life. 

Movie Review: The Happening

 
This is one of those movies with a powerful message. You need to have a certain kind of intelligence to watch it. It doesn't shove everything to your face: you need to watch it, put two-and-two together and decipher it.


Storyline is simple: some unknown air-borne chemical radiated from plants is making people display unnatural behaviours - hanging themselves, placing themselves under bulldozers(YIKES!), driving in inhuman speed killing themselves and etc. Speculations goes how it's a sign of apocalypse, how mother nature is angry with us, how some chemical from the sea travelled to land affecting land creatures etc.


A science teacher is on the roads with his wife and friend's daughter trying to escape the calamity. They travel further and further away, witnessing many deaths and mishaps and finally close to the brink of breaking down.

They survived though. How? Watch the movie to find out. =)

Rating: 7/10
Points were deducted for awkward acting and graphic violence.=\

Supplementary Nutrition for Your Dogs

and other pets too. If it doesn't give your type of pets any adverse effect.

1) Evening Primrose Oil
    - This helps a dog to shed less(great for owners with short-haired dogs like mine) hair. It also prevents senility when she/he gets older. Tiffany is 12 years old and she's still so alert and energetic. Introduce this to your pet when she/he gets old enough to chew solid food. On the long run, you will be grateful that you gave her/him that. It also helps to improve their immune system. I can count the number of time we brought her(Tiffany) to the vet. Small dogs tend to get sick easily so this is actually a live saver. Any brand of EPO would do. Im personally giving me her Kordels.

2) Longan Honey(the sugar free kind)
    - This is actually to helps fussy eaters like Tiffany to get to eat her food. Make sure you buy the sugar free ones because sugar is fatal to dogs. Just spread a reasonable amount on your pets kibble/canned food. It helps with the shedding to. It gives your pets a nice glow/sheen to their coat. I give her the brand I buy from Cosway it's good for pets.

                 Note: THESE FUCKERS ARE EXTREMELY UNHEALTHY

3) Raw treats

    - Make sure it is made from the simplest ingredients because those colorful red-white-green-yellow ones have preservatives in them and it's REALLY bad for your dog! Imagine feeding poison to your dog OMG NOOO NOT THE DOG!!! So yeah be very, very careful in choosing a healthy treat for your dog because it can result in nasty allergic reaction/severe shedding and stomach pains. Tiffany's side effect was she shed enough hair to make a whole new dog. =\ We stopped giving her those colorful ones and gave her a pure ingredient treats and her shedding stopped.