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On October 6, 1998, Matthew Shepard, a twenty-one-year-old gay college student, left a bar in Laramie, Wyoming with Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson. Eighteen hours later he was found tied to a log fence on the outskirts of town, unconscious, severely pistol-whipped, and barely alive. By the time Matthew died a few days later, a soundbite had made his name synonymous with anti-gay hate. Stephen Jimenez went to Laramie to research the murder in...
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[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Relates, from various points of view, events from the night of October 6, 1998, when twenty-one-year-old Matthew Shepard, a gay college student, was lured out of a Wyoming bar, savagely beaten, tied to a fence, and left to die.
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Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"On October 7, 1988, a young gay man was discovered bound to a fence outside Laramie, Wyoming, savagely beaten and left to die in a shocking act of hate. Matthew Shepard's death became a national symbol of intolerance, but for the people of the town, the event was deeply personal. In the aftermath, Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project went to Laramie and conducted more than 200 interviews with its people. From the transcripts,...
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