Boys Don't Cry is a 1999 film based on the story of Brandon Teena, a transgendered man who was raped and murdered by his male friends, after they found out he was assigned a female gender at birth.

Hillary Swank's performance as Brandon Teena earned her the Oscar for best actress in 2001.

Boys Don't Cry is also the title of an album of the band The Cure (1980, compilation, best of Three Imaginary Boys and some singles and The Demo Album of the 1978 demos).

Track list:

  1. "Boys Don't Cry"
  2. "Plastic Passion"
  3. "10:15 Saturday Night"
  4. "Accuracy"
  5. "So What"
  6. "Jumping Someone Else's Train"
  7. "Subway Song"
  8. "Killing an Arab"
  9. "Fire in Cairo"
  10. "Another Day"
  11. "Grinding Halt"
  12. "Three Imaginary Boys"

Boys Don't Cry was also the name of a band of session musicians who had a one-hit wonder in 1986 with "I Wanna Be a Cowboy".