Tue, Jun 30
|Online Event
Stephen Jimenez, The Book of Matt: Hidden Truths About the Murder of Matthew Shepard
In conversation with Mark Crispin Miller, journalism professor at NYU. Revised edition with a new chapter (“Ghosts of Laramie”) and new introduction by Andrew Sullivan, Contributing Editor at New York magazine. Event is co-sponsored by News From Underground NYC.
Date, Time & Location
Jun 30, 2020, 6:00 PM MDT
Online Event
About the Event
To join Stephen and Mark in conversation, please click this Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81918418506
Twenty-two years ago, the grotesquely violent murder of Matthew Shepard shocked America. On October 6, 1998, twenty-one-year-old Matthew Shepard left a bar in Laramie, Wyoming with two alleged “strangers,” Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson. Eighteen hours later, Matthew was found tied to a log fence on the outskirts of town, unconscious and barely alive and days later he died.
The crime was a flashpoint in the struggle for gay rights. Overnight, the media painted the picture of a hate crime… before police investigated the real motives. The Truth was far more complicated – and dangerous. Witnesses were gagged. Case records were sealed. Many were afraid to talk.
WHY?
Award-winning journalist Steve Jimenez spent two decades digging deep in Laramie, Wyoming. As a gay man, he felt an added moral imperative to tell Matthew’s story. But what Jimenez eventually…