C# :: Linq To SQL With Null Value In WHERE Clause

I am trying to query fields in a where clause using LINQ to SQL and for some reason I cannot figure out why it doesn't work:

var qryGetMonsterID = (from students in dbContext.tblStudentPersonals
where (students.givenname.Equals(fn)) && (students.familyname.Equals(ln)) && (students.middlename.Equals(mn)) && (students.email.Equals(e))
select students);

The returned SQL Syntax is:

SELECT [t0].[monsterid], [t0].[givenname], [t0].[middlename], [t0].[familyname], [t0].[homeaddress], [t0].[city], [t0].[state], [t0].[postal], [t0].[primaryphone], [t0].[secondaryphone], [t0].[email], [t0].[username], [t0].[lastmodified], [t0].[modifiedby]
FROM [dbo].[tblStudentPersonal] AS [t0]
WHERE ([t0].[givenname] = @p0) AND ([t0].[familyname] = @p1) AND ([t0].[middlename] = @p2) AND ([t0].[email] = @p3)

Not sure but the values for middle name could be null - because not everyone has a middle name and the same is true for e-mail.