October mourning a song for Matthew Shepard
On the night of October 6, 1998, a gay twenty-one-year-old college student named Matthew Shepard was kidnapped from a Wyoming bar by two young men, savagely beaten, tied to a remote fence, and left to die. Gay Awareness Week was beginning at the University of Wyoming, and the keynote speaker was Les...
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Somerville, Massachusetts :
Candlewick Press,
2020.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Prologue: The fence (before)
- Outnumbered
- Recipe for disaster
- Something snapped
- Raising awareness
- Every mother's plea
- The truck
- Road rage
- A sorry state
- Signs of trouble
- The clothesline
- The pistol
- Witness
- The fence (that night)
- What you can do in eighteen hours
- Stars
- The wind
- The doe
- Where is my boy?
- The biker
- The patrol officer's report
- The doctor
- Housekeeper, ICU
- Lame enough
- How to have the worst day of your life
- The journalist
- Vigil: candles in the wind
- The Armbands
- Scared to death
- Heartfelt apology
- October 12, 1998
- Now showing: Matthew's story
- Tree
- Class photo: me in the middle or "What will you be when you grow up?"
- Then and now
- Thirteen ways of looking at Matthew
- The fence (one week later)
- Stand by your man
- Accessory
- Officer of the court
- His shoes
- The frat boys
- The songwriter
- The drag queen
- The cop
- The bartender
- Let's say
- The student
- A father
- A mother
- A chorus of parents
- The church lady
- A protestor
- An angel
- Jury selection
- The prosecutor's job
- The defense's job
- Don't flatter yourself
- Sorry boy
- Logic problem
- Verdict
- Mercy
- What twenty bucks could get you in 1998
- Wounded
- This is the hand
- Once upon a time
- The fence (after)
- Epilogue: Pilgrimage
- Afterword: Imagine.
