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Losing Matt Shepard
Language: en
Pages: 210
Authors: Beth Loffreda
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-11-05 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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Explores why the 1998 murder of gay student Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming, set off a media frenzy and continues to haunt the nation, and examines how the
The Meaning of Matthew
Language: en
Pages: 150
Authors: Judy Shepard
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-09-03 - Publisher: Penguin

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“The Meaning of Matthew is Judy Shepard’s passionate and courageous attempt to understand what no mother should have to understand, which is why her son was
Murder, the Media, and the Politics of Public Feelings
Language: en
Pages: 223
Authors: Jennifer Petersen
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-08-12 - Publisher: Indiana University Press

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In 1998, the horrific murders of Matthew Shepard -- a gay man living in Laramie, Wyoming -- and James Byrd Jr. -- an African American man dragged to his death i
The Book of Matt
Language: en
Pages: 384
Authors: Stephen Jimenez
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-09-24 - Publisher: Steerforth

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“Methamphetamine was a huge part of this case . . . It was a horrible murder driven by drugs.” — Prosecutor Cal Rerucha, who convicted Matthew Shepard's k
October Mourning
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Leslea Newman
Categories: Young Adult Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-09-01 - Publisher: National Geographic Books

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A masterful poetic exploration of the impact of Matthew Shepard’s murder on the world. On the night of October 6, 1998, a gay twenty-one-year-old college stud