All He Wanted BRANDON TEENA a Transgender Boy Who Paid the Ultimate Price
"Living as a transgender man, twenty-one-year-old Teena Brandon hit the dust bowl town of Falls City, Nebraska, on the run from his family in Lincoln--and from the law for forging checks. Handsome and sophisticated, Brandon was an instant success with young women, but when Brandon started to date the beautiful blond Lana Tisdel, his luck ran out. In a terrifying incident on Christmas Eve, Brandon was brutally raped when her female sexual parts were unmasked. Then on New Year's Eve, Teena Brandon, her roommate, and a friend were found shot to death in an isolated farmhouse. Writing with the exclusive cooperation of Brandon's ex-girlfriends, Brandon's family, and the accused murderers, New York Times bestselling author Aphrodite Jones explores the transgender life and violent death of Teena Brandon/Brandon Teena. All HE Wanted is the only book that tells the whole story, from Teena Brandon's early childhood as a girl, her transformation to a boy, his leaving behind his family in Lincoln, to becoming "Brandon" in Falls City. Jones not only chronicles the police investigation and murder trials, the author lays bare an America where young people were boldly experimenting with gender identity, long before it was mainstream. All HE Wanted challenges our ideas of gay, straight, and transgender people, and reveals the kind of intolerance the transgender community suffered in th 1990's. In the end, Brandon Teena wound up paying the ultimate price for sexual freedom, but his death marked a movement that would change America forever."--Back cover