The Huffington Post -
20 Sep 2013 22:09
This week I talked with filmmaker Michele Josue about her new documentary Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine. This October will mark 15 years since Matthew Shepard was kidnapped, tortured, tethered to a fence outside Laramie, Wyo., and left to die just because he was gay. Never regaining consciousness, Shepard succumbed to his severe injuries and died on Oct. 12, 1998. Though Shepard has since become a powerful political symbol within the movement for LGBT equality (in 2009 President Obama signed ...
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