shepard, matthew

Judy Shepard shares personal stories about her son Matthew's life and death, focusing on how she and her husband chose to honor their son's legacy after he was murdered in a brutal hate crime by becoming international gay rights activists.

Romaine Patterson recounts her efforts to stop hatred and homophobia after the murder of her best friend, Matthew Shepard, explaining how she set out to stop Baptist minister Fred Phelps and his followers from picketing the trial of Shepard's killers and supporting the accussed in their actions.

Relates, from various points of view, events from the night of October 6, 1998, when twenty-one-year-old Matthew Shepard, a gay college student, was lured out of a Wyoming bar, savagely beaten, tied to a fence, and left to die.