d. 1998

Explores why the murder of twenty-one-year-old gay University of Wyoming student Matt Shepard ignited a media frenzy and struck a cord with American society.

Examines the events surrounding the 1998 dragging and murder of a forty-nine-year-old African-American man in Jasper, Texas.

Matthew Shepard was murdered because he was gay. His mother shares the story behind the headlines, interweaving her memories of Matthew and the challenges she faced, with her family, confronting his death. She also gives an account of how she and her husband helped prosecutors convict Matthew's murderers.

The author presents eight short stories about his mother and other family members as they grew up in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina.

A play by Moises Kaufman which chronicles life in the town of Laramie, Wyoming, in the year following the brutal murder of Matthew Shepard, who was killed because he was gay.

Explores how the town of Jasper, Texas was forced to face its racist past after three white men chained a forty-nine-year-old African-American man named James Byrd Jr. to the bumper of a truck and dragged him three miles down a country road on June 7, 1998.

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.