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I didn't know Matthew Shepard but I think about him often.
On many levels it makes no sense, but I've always felt connected.
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I've often thought "why wasn't it me?"
If you just think about it on a surface level, I was Matthew.
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Matthew was gay, drinking beer at a straight bar in his
college town. Mathew was naive and trusting. He was in search
of friendship and place of acceptance.
Simply because of who he was, Matthew was beaten,
tied to a fence and left for dead.
Replace Laramie, Wyoming, with Ames, Iowa.
Replace Matthew Shepard with Steve Petersen.
It's not as big of a leap as you might want to think.
The Laramie Project
The Laramie Project is a 2000 play by Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project about the reaction to the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard.
The play was made into a powerful movie in 2002.
Here is the movie.
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I realize your time is limited but if you have never seen it,
I recommend you make the time.
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It's 95 minutes that I believe will give you way more than
the time it takes from you.
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NOTE: for some unknown reason in starts a 1:52 .
Just push it arrow back to the begging to view the first 1:52.
You can also just search for it on You Tube.
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