Laurie Weeks is an American writer and performer based in New York City.
She is best known as the screenwriter of Boys Don't Cry, and is the Lambda Literary Award-winning author of the novel Zipper Mouth.
Weeks holds a Master of Arts in Performance Studies from New York University and has taught at The New School in New York City in the creative writing program.
[3] She was the screenwriter of the cult film Boys Don't Cry (1999), which was a retelling of the Brandon Teena murder.
[5] Her name appears in the lyrics of the Le Tigre song "Hot Topic".