"Fear and Loathing and The Laramie Project"

Here's this interesting blog I found written by a woman who was a freshman at the university in 1998, one of Matthew's classmates, who didn't know him personally but was deeply affected by the events and subsequently by "The Laramie Project."
This is how she starts her first entry:
I guess a good way of explaining why I felt the need to start a weblog about The Laramie Project would be with an anecdote. I was walking with a friend to grab some dinner a few weeks ago when he cheerfully replied to something I said with the quip, "Well, tie me to a fence and pistol-whip me." I felt like he slugged me in the stomach. To my friend, who is an out gay male, that image is little more than a cultural reference used just a little too casually among his like-minded friends. To me, I can't see that image in my head without seeing Matt Shepard's face right in front of me and revisiting everything that happened afterward. My friend had no clue how badly that quip shocked me because at the time, I had never told him that I was there.

Recent Denver Post Article

"Matt Shepard needed killing," Aaron McKinney bluntly told Tectonic company member Greg Pierotti for the epilogue, which includes the first interviews with McKinney and Russell Henderson since 2004.

"As far as Matt is concerned, I don't have any remorse," McKinney said during nine hours of talks with Pierotti. "The night I did it, I did have hatred for homosexuals."

McKinney's initial motive was robbery. But he targeted Shepard, he said, because "he was obviously gay. That played a part. His weakness. His frailty."

McKinney now calls himself "the poster child for hate-crime murders."

Rest of article, mostly about Laramie: Ten Years Later

Also like the quote "Laramie is a community, not a project."

Tectonic Blog, 10 Years Later

Here's the blog that members of the Tectonic Theatre Project made while traveling to Laramie in September 2008 to interview people for the epilogue that they would then write. Written as "journal entries."

http://laramieblog.blogspot.com/