>Date: 04 Jan 94 02:58:38 EST
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AP 01/03 14:26 EST V0911
   FALLS CITY, Neb. (AP) -- People in this small Nebraska city took
Brandon Teena at face value.
   Brandon dressed like a man, talked like a man and dated women.
   Then they learned that Brandon Teena was really Teena Brandon, a
woman.
   About two weeks later, Brandon, 21, and two other people were found
shot to death in a farmhouse three miles south of Humboldt, a town of
1,000 in southeastern Nebraska.
   Also killed were Lisa Lambert, 23, and Phillip DeVine, 22, of
Fairfield, Iowa.
   Two men were arrested in the New Year's Eve slayings.
   John Lotter, 22, of Falls City, was charged Monday with first-degree
murder in the deaths, as well as with kidnapping and sexually
assaulting Brandon on Christmas Day. He was ordered held without bond.
   The other man, Marv Nissen, 21, also of Falls City, was to be
arraigned later Monday, said Richardson County Attorney Douglas Merz,
the prosecutor.
   Security was tight Monday at the courthouse in Falls City, about 25
miles southeast of Humboldt.
   "Brandon had everyone of us fooled," said Kim Gresham, 23, a
convenience store clerk who frequently talked to Brandon when she came
into the store.
   "He was in here all the time with girls, and the girls were hanging
all over him," Gresham said.
   In a snapshot taken in December, Brandon resembled a teen-aged boy,
with a cute smile and a pug nose.
   Friends described her as having a slight, 5-foot-5-inch frame. She
always dressed in men's clothes and kept her black hair close-cropped,
they said.
   She moved to the area about three months ago from Lincoln, about 60
miles away, and lived with Lambert and her infant son in a rented
farmhouse in Humboldt.
   Lambert's son, who was in the house at the time of the slayings, was
unharmed, authorities said.
   DeVine's stepfather, Roy McCain of Fairfield, said his stepson had
been visiting friends in Nebraska.
   Merz declined to speculate on a motive but said he did not believe
Brandon's sexual identity was behind the killings.
   But Michelle Lotter, 21, sister of John Lotter, said her brother and
Nissen were angry after learning about Brandon's deception.
   Lana Tisdel, 19, of Falls City said she dated Brandon for about a
week. She said she didn't find out until about two weeks ago that
Brandon was a woman.
   That's when Brandon was arrested on forgery and alcohol-related
charges.
   "They (authorities) were calling her a female so we started asking
questions," Tisdel said.
   She said she confronted Brandon. "She told me that she had a sex
change and it's not all done," Tisdel said.

AP 01/03 20:22 EST V0067
   BOSTON (AP) -- A city councilor whose stances have angered black and
gay leaders was voted council president Monday, making him the city's
second-ranking official.
   Since being elected a councilor in 1984, James Kelly opposed
affirmative action and voted against the extension of city benefits to
homosexuals' partners.
   In earlier years, as an activist, he opposed court-ordered busing to
racially integrate schools and forced integration of public housing.
   Seven of the council's 13 members voted in favor of Kelly; four
councilors voted for John Nucci while two others voted for themselves.
   As council president, Kelly presides over council meetings and
serves as acting mayor when Mayor Thomas Menino leaves town.
   "He's not the Jimmy Kelly of 10 years ago," said Councilwoman
Maureen Feeney, who voted for Kelly.
   "Jim has very much grown as a man who wants to work together. There
is no one who works harder."
   Councilman Gareth Saunders, who represents the predominantly
minority Roxbury neighborhood, voted for Nucci.
   Saunders said he didn't think Kelly's "past ideas and positions are
in sync with Boston moving forward."
   Jan Platner, executive director of New England Gay and Lesbian
Advocates and Defenders, said Kelly's election "sends a very negative
message to the gay and lesbian community."
   Kelly pledged to work with every Boston resident.
   "They come in all shapes and sizes, different ethnic persuasions,
different religious persuasions.
   "Some of them are gay, some of them are not. I work very well with
them. That's my job," Kelly said.
   Menino said he and Kelly "have probably disagreed more than anyone."
   But, he said, "I think Jimmy Kelly shows us he has the ability to
bring people together."
   Also Monday, the newly-seated City Council elected its first openly
gay president in Fall River, a former mill town about 50 miles south of
Boston.
   Steven A. Camara, who had been a city councilor for 12 years, said
he did not think his sexual orientation was an issue.
   "When you're born and raised in the community where you come out and
where you've been out ... people tend to know about you and know what
your relationships and associations are," Camara said.
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ORDER SHOULD BECOME PERMANENT.  A CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN GROUP OUT OF
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