Jul. 20—Convergence Theatre Company is currently seekg performers for a timely productn of the award-wng play "The Laramie Project," directed by s artistic director Matthew DeMert. "The Laramie Project" was wrten by Moisés Kfman and member of the Tectonic Theatre Project rponse to the 1998 murr of Matthew Shepard, a young gay man Laramie, Wyomg, and a stunt at the ...
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- THE TTH BEHD AMERI’S MOST FAMO GAY-HATE MURR
- GAYT PLAC IN WYOMG FOR 2020
- WHAT IT'S LIKE TO GROW UP GAY IN WYOMG AFTER MATTHEW SHEPARD'S MURR
- IT’S STILL DANGERO TO BE GAY WYOMG
- IN WYOMG, SCENE OF FAMO GAY HATE CRIME AN UNLIKELY LGBTQ HAVEN
- ‘LARAMIE PROJECT’ RELLS FATAL ATTACK ON GAY MAN
- GAY DATG WYOMG
THE TTH BEHD AMERI’S MOST FAMO GAY-HATE MURR
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Eighteen hours later, a cyclist found the gay stunt tied to a fence, beaten, burned, and atose wh a actured skull. The horrific killg of Matthew Shepard 1998 is wily seen as one of the worst anti-gay hate crim Amerin history. They pistol whipped him wh a gun then tied him to a fence eezg ndns and set fire to him before leavg him to attack beme a e célèbre: precipated a natnal backlash agast hyper-macho culture and tac tolerance of homophobia.
GAYT PLAC IN WYOMG FOR 2020
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As a rult of Matthew’s ath, many good thgs have happened for the gay muny. Policians and celebri pledged support and fundg to bat anti-gay hate crime.
WHAT IT'S LIKE TO GROW UP GAY IN WYOMG AFTER MATTHEW SHEPARD'S MURR
Universy of Wyomg stunt Matthew Shepard, who was openly gay, was btally beaten October 1998 by Aaron McKney and Rsell Henrson. Shepard died several days later. The cint received ternatnal media verage and ntu to spark ntroversy about hate crim. Shepard’s parents, Judy and Dennis, tablished a foundatn Matthew’s name, which ntu s pro-LGBT tnal work today. * laramie gay *
The Shepard fay have bee mpaigners for gay rights. Jimenez has been acced of beg a revisnist, a cricism ually rerved for extreme rightwg iologu that ny the Holot, and labelled a homophobe.
IT’S STILL DANGERO TO BE GAY WYOMG
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When he started he was nvced that Matthew died at the hands of homophob, but he soon disvered that Matthew’s tragedy began long before the night he was killed. “This do not make the perfect poster boy for the gay-rights movement, ” says Jimenez. But this is not the Matthew Shepard who beme a celebrated figure for the gay-rights movement Ameri.
But the town also has a number of mobile home parks at the edg, some more ndown than the eveng of 6 October 1998, Matthew went to the Firi bar, a lol hangout that was purportedly gay-iendly. It was fairly well known the Laramie muny that McKney wouldn’t be one that was strikg out of a sense of homophobia. They ntacted the Associated Prs and a number of lol gay anisatns that same day.
IN WYOMG, SCENE OF FAMO GAY HATE CRIME AN UNLIKELY LGBTQ HAVEN
Laramie (Uned Stat) (AFP) - Nearly 25 years ago, the btal murr of Matthew Shepard -- a gay llege stunt Wyomg who was beaten, tied to a fence * laramie gay *
Stephen Jimenez is an award-wng journalist and gay man.
So why has he put such time and effort to attemptg to prove that Matthew’s murr was not a hate crime, pecially as has seen him acced of beg an ally to the rightwg Christian fundamentalists who ny the realy of homophobia?
‘LARAMIE PROJECT’ RELLS FATAL ATTACK ON GAY MAN
The 1999 play The Laramie Project explor the te story surroundg the ath of Matthew Shepard, a young gay man who was beaten and left to die Laramie, Wyo., 1998. The se, which beme a landmark symbol for hate crim, still elics varied reactns — which is why on Oct. 12, hundreds of other theaters around the world will perform The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, an Epilogue. * laramie gay *
“The view was that homophobic rednecks walked to a bar and saw an obvly gay man wh money and targeted him and beat him to ath for that reason, ” says Jimenez. That plit the origal story of two strangers walkg to a bar and targetg Matthew – someone they did not know – bee he was gay. “Rsell Henrson ed to hang around wh gay people, ” Johnson told me.
GAY DATG WYOMG
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“Laramie had a big gay populatn. I knew what people’s sexual orientatn was bee my bt iend’s son was gay.
”The police did not vtigate the killers’ relatnship to the gay days after the attack, on 12 October, Matthew died. ”Dark si: anti-gay prottors at Matthew’s funeral. “The se was ed to highlight the fact of vlence agast gay people, ” Wypijewski told me.