Does that make her a lesbian? The movie ignores an in-depth consideration of this issue, which is unusual. After all, Brandon's murder is motivated, at least in part, because of his homosexuality and refusal to comply with gender norms that would dictate he be attracted to males. Lana is neither murdered nor raped; clearly, the characters in the movie see a difference between Lana and Brandon, even if both of them were, at least by any plain definition of the word, lesbians. Was Lana rewarded for being feminine, even if she was a lesbian? Does this suggest that the filmmaker was saying that females can express...

"Chapter Four: Boys do Cry: Hilary Swank and the Politics of a Pronoun."
Masculinities without Men? Female Masculinity in Twentieth-Century Fictions. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2004. 142-154.