Resources from UW

Yay source material! And a lot of Philip DuBois.

NY Times Archives for Laramie Project

"This archive republishes 17 New York Times articles about the murder of Matthew Shepard, who was beaten to death in Laramie, Wyoming, in 1998, as well as the trial of his two assailants and the nationwide debate about hate-crimes legislation that it provoked."

New Details Emerge in Shepard Case

This is from an article based on interviews 20/20 did with McKinney and Henderson in 2004. Really shocking. Definitely read the comments too. Some people back up what is expressed (that the crime had everything to do with drugs and little to do with Matt being gay, but that the defense decided to make that 'gay panic' their motive because they thought it would absolve them...)

New Details Emerge in Matthew Shepard Murder

Other comments totally decry the report, saying it's completely false and shoddy journalism. I think this is the kind of thing we could maybe include outside the theater? If we're going with the "outside forces coming into Laramie" idea.

Also this is a song about Matt with some video/audio of Laramie. It's not that great, but at 4:37, they shown something I haven't heard before.

What is Truth?

So this congresswoman certainly doesn't have her facts straight...but neither really does the guy defending Matthew, who says that he was in a "gay bar" and that he "died out there" on the fence that night. I'm glad he's so outraged, but this is just another example of the story being rewritten as time goes on.
Also an interesting example of how an alternate media (not mainstream) covers the story, I think.


AND this is an amazing find. An interview with Matthew a couple years before his death. I was totally blown away that this existed: