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.
year: 2000
call number/section: 306.76
subjects: shepard, matthew, d. 1998, death and burial, gay men, crimes against, laramie, homicide, homophobia, laramie (wyo.), hate crimes, laramie (wyo.), social conditions