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Mel White
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Born
James Melville White[1]
 July 26, 1940 (age 73)[1]
Santa Clara, California, U.S.[1]
Occupation
author, clergyman, activist
Spouse(s)
Lyla Lee Loehr (1962–1982)
 Gary Nixon (1982–present)
Children
2
James Melville "Mel" White (born July 26, 1940) is an American clergyman and author. White was a behind-the-scenes member of the Evangelical Protestant movement through the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, writing film and television specials and ghostwriting auto-biographies for televangelists such as Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and Billy Graham. After years of writing for the Christian right, he came out as gay in 1994.[2]

Contents
  [hide] 1 Biography
2 Writings
3 Books under his own name
4 References
5 External links
Biography[edit]
In 1962, White graduated from Warner Pacific College. That same year, he married his wife Lyla. They had two children, one of whom is the actor/comedian and screenwriter Mike White.
After receiving his BA from Warner Pacific College, then graduating with an MA in communications from the University of Portland, White followed with graduate work in communications and film at University of Southern California, UCLA, and Harvard. He received his Doctorate of Ministry from, and was a professor of communications and preaching for over a decade at, Fuller Theological Seminary. During this time he also worked as an evangelical pastor.
After their marriage, White admitted to his wife that he had always been attracted to men. He embarked on a long process of attempted cures for his homosexuality, including psychotherapy, prayer, electroconvulsive therapy, and exorcism. None of these techniques changed his attraction to men, and after he attempted suicide, he and his wife agreed to an amicable divorce. His son Mike is bisexual.[3]
In 1984, White began dating Gary Nixon. In 1994, White wrote his autobiography, Stranger at the Gate: To Be Gay And Christian In America, which detailed his former career in the Religious Right and his struggle coming to terms with his sexuality. His ex-wife wrote the foreword to this book. His latest book, Holy Terror: Lies the Christian Right Tells To Deny Gay Equality was released in hardback as Religion Gone Bad: Hidden Dangers from the Christian Right.
After coming out, White transferred his clergy credentials to the gay-affirming Metropolitan Community Church.
In 1997, White was awarded the American Civil Liberties Union's National Civil Liberties Award for his efforts to apply the "soul force" principles of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. to the struggle for justice for sexual minorities. He founded Soulfource, a gay advocacy group, in 1998.
He produced, wrote, and directed 53 documentary films and television specials on spirituality. He is also an author; among his 16 books (nine bestsellers), he wrote about the Philippines' Ninoy and Corazon Aquino (Aquino), the Jonestown tragedy (Deceived), David Rothenber (a child burned by his father) (David), Lust the Other Side of Love, and talk-show host/producer Mike Douglas (When the Going Gets Tough).
On June 18, 2008 White and Nixon were the first same-sex couple legally married at All Saints Episcopal Church (Pasadena, California) following the May 16, 2008 action of the Supreme Court of California overturning the state's ban on same-sex marriage. They currently reside in Long Beach, California.
In 2009 White appeared on the fourteenth season of The Amazing Race along with his son Mike. The two lasted for seven legs of the race before being eliminated in sixth place in Phuket, Thailand.[4] The team competed once again in The Amazing Race: Unfinished Business, an edition featuring eleven returning teams.[5] They were the second team eliminated and finish in 10th place in Yokosuka, Japan at the end of the third leg. Mel and Mike were eliminated after being hospitalized with hypothermia.
White is also a contributor to the popular DVD program Living the Questions, an introduction to Progressive Christianity. Dr. White is also featured in the popular documentary "For the Bible Tells Me So."
The Cambodian NGO New Future for Children is supported by White.
Writings[edit]
White ghostwrote several books for fellow evangelicals, including Billy Graham (Approaching Hoofbeats), Pat Robertson (America's Date with Destiny), and Jerry Falwell (Strength for the Journey and If I Should Die Before I Wake).[6]
Since 1993, he has devoted himself full-time to minister to lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgender people, working on their behalf in the media, in the political process, and with fellow religious leaders.
White's autobiography, Stranger at the Gate: To be Gay and Christian in America (1994), is still being read widely, especially by LGBTQ people, their families and friends struggling to reconcile faith with sexual orientation. White's latest book, Religion Gone Bad: Hidden Dangers from the Christian Right (2007), is called "A consciousness-raising, must-read book" by Bishop John Shelby Spong. It was reissued later in revised form with the title Holy Terror: Lies the Christian Right Tells Us to Deny Gay Equality.
Books under his own name[edit]
White, Mel (April 1995). Stranger at the Gate. Penguin Group (USA). p. 325. ISBN 0-452-27381-1.
White, Mel (September 2006). Religion Gone Bad. Penguin Group (USA). p. 384. ISBN 1-58542-531-1. Retrieved 2011-11-23.
White, Mel (1978). Lust: The Other Side of Love. Fleming H. Revell. p. 191. ISBN 0-8007-0932-2.
White, Mel (1979). Deceived. Spire Books. ISBN 978-0-8007-8367-9.
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c "California Birth Index, 1905–1995". Ancestry.com. Retrieved December 27, 2011.
2.Jump up ^ Steve Inskeep. Religion, Politics a Potent Mix for Jerry Falwell NPR June 30, 2006
3.Jump up ^ Ferber, Lawrence. White out: writer-producer Mike White comes out and discusses the gay subtext in his new comedy, Orange County, The Advocate (February 5, 2002). Retrieved on January 28, 2008.
4.Jump up ^ "Mel and Mike: Amazing Race". CBS. Retrieved 2009-01-26.
5.Jump up ^ "'The Amazing Race' announces its All-Stars cast". Latimesblogs.latimes.com. January 19, 2011. Retrieved 2011-11-23.
6.Jump up ^ Colker, David (July 26, 1993). "In a State of Grace : Religion: Writer and minister Mel White was a Christian evangelical success story until he came out of the closet. That's when former colleagues including Jerry Falwell and Billy Graham cut him off. But White says he is finding peace: 'I am gay, I am proud and God loves me.'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved July 17, 2013. "The Rev. Mel White ghostwrote Jerry Falwell's autobiography, "Strength for the Journey," and Falwell's book about abortion. He ghostwrote Pat Robertson's "America's Dates With Destiny" and Billy Graham's "Approaching Hoofbeats.""
External links[edit]
Mel White's GLBT organization
Interview with Rev. Candace Chellew, Whosoever.org
Mel White, New Future for Children, Cambodia
Mel White at the Internet Movie Database

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For the Bible Tells Me So

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For the Bible Tells Me So
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Directed by
Daniel G Karslake
Produced by
Daniel G Karslake
Written by
Daniel G Karslake
 Nancy Kennedy
Music by
Scott Anderson
Editing by
Nancy Kennedy
Distributed by
First Run Features
Release date(s)
October 5, 2007
Running time
98 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Box office
$312,751
For the Bible Tells Me So is a 2007 American documentary film directed by Daniel G. Karslake about homosexuality and its perceived conflict with Christianity, as well as various interpretations of what the Bible says about same-sex sexuality.
It includes lengthy interview segments with several sets of religious parents (including former House Majority Leader Dick Gephardt and his wife, Jane, and the parents of Bishop V. Gene Robinson) regarding their personal experiences raising homosexual children, and also interviews with those (adult) children.
The film features an animated segment, "Is Homosexuality a Choice?", in which a summary of the current scientific theories about sexual orientation is given. It is directed by Powerhouse Animation Studios and narrated by Don LaFontaine in one of his last non-trailer narration roles.
The film premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.
Critical reception[edit]
The film received positive reviews from critics. The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that the film received 98% positive reviews, based on 43 reviews.[1] Metacritic reported the film had an average score of 73 out of 100, based on 11 reviews.[2]
Following its premiere in competition at the Sundance Film Festival, For the Bible Tells Me So went on to win a number of prestigious festival awards including the Katherine Bryan Edwards Human Rights Prize at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, and the Best Documentary Audience Awards at the Seattle International Film Festival, the Provincetown International Film Festival, Outfest: The Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, the Milwaukee International Film Festival, and a number of others.
On November 19, 2007, For the Bible Tells Me So was named by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as one of 15 films on its documentary feature Oscar shortlist. However, it did not make the final list of five nominated films as announced on January 22, 2008.[3][4]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "For the Bible Tells Me So - Movie Reviews, Trailers, Pictures - Rotten Tomatoes". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2008-02-20.
2.Jump up ^ "For the Bible Tells Me So (2007): Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 2008-02-20.
3.Jump up ^ Nominees: 80th Academy Awards
4.Jump up ^ "Shortlist for docu Oscar unveiled". The Hollywood Reporter. 2007-11-20. Retrieved 2007-12-21.
External links[edit]
Official website
For the Bible Tells Me So at the Internet Movie Database
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Gene Robinson

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The Right Reverend
Gene Robinson
Bishop of New Hampshire
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Bishop Gene Robinson in 2013
 
Province
Episcopal Church in the United States
Diocese
New Hampshire
Installed
March 7, 2004
Term ended
January 5, 2013
Predecessor
Douglas Edwin Theuner
Successor
A. Robert Hirschfeld
Orders

Ordination
December 15, 1973
Consecration
November 2, 2003
Personal details

Born
May 29, 1947 (age 66)
Lexington, Kentucky
Spouse
Isabella "Boo" McDaniel (1972–1986)
 Mark Andrew (2008– )
Children
Jamee Robinson (b. 1977)
 Ella Robinson (b. 1981)
Vicky Gene Robinson[1] (born May 29, 1947 in Fayette County, Kentucky) is an American retired bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.[2] [3] Robinson was elected bishop coadjutor in 2003 and succeeded as diocesan bishop in March 2004. Before becoming bishop, he served as Canon to the Ordinary to the VIII Bishop of New Hampshire.
Robinson is widely known for being the first priest in an openly gay relationship to be consecrated a bishop in a major Christian denomination believing in the historic episcopate.[note 1] His sexual orientation was privately acknowledged in the 1970s, when he studied in seminary, was ordained, married, and started a family. He went public with his sexual identity and divorced in 1986.[4] He entered a formal relationship with his current spouse in 1988. When delegates to the Episcopal convention were voting on the ratification of his election, it became an issue of controversy. His election was ratified 62 to 45. After his election, many theologically conservative Episcopalians in the United States have aligned themselves with bishops outside the Episcopal Church in the United States, a process called the Anglican realignment. His story has appeared in print and film.
In 2009 he was given the Stephen F. Kolzak Media Award. He has announced his intention to retire in 2013, at 65.[5] His successor is A. Robert Hirschfeld, who was elected bishop coadjutor on May 19, 2012 and consecrated bishop in Concord, New Hampshire on August 4, 2012. Hirschfeld served with Robinson until Robinson's formal retirement on January 5, 2013.[6]

Contents
  [hide] 1 Early life
2 Education and marriage
3 Early career and children
4 Coming out and career
5 Election as bishop
6 Consecration as bishop
7 After consecration
8 See also
9 Notes
10 References
11 Further reading
12 External links
Early life[edit]
Robinson's parents were poor tenant farmers who worked in the tobacco fields as sharecroppers. The family used an outhouse, drew water from a cistern, and did laundry in a cast-iron tub over an open flame. Their house did not have running water until Robinson was ten years old.[2] When Robinson was born, he was so seriously ill that the doctor was certain he would not survive. He was temporarily paralyzed from birth and his head was misshapen. So likely was Robinson's death that the physician asked Robinson's father Charles for a name for the baby's birth and death certificates.[7] Robinson's parents were young (his mother Imogene was twenty) and they were hoping for a girl.[2] They named the baby "Vicky Gene Robinson" for Charles' father Victor and the baby's mother Imogene.[2] [8] For a long time, Robinson's parents believed the boy would die soon. Much later in life, Robinson's father would tell him he couldn't take any joy in the boy's development because he always thought each step was going to be the last thing.[2] Robinson's parents were and still are members of a small Disciples of Christ congregation. Robinson describes his childhood as very religious.[2] Robinson had perfect Sunday School attendance for thirteen years.[2]
Education and marriage[edit]
Robinson chose The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, in 1965 because they offered him a full scholarship.[2] Robinson intended to study towards a medical degree but decided to major in American Studies. During his college days, Robinson began to seriously consider the ordained ministry and said it almost immediately felt right.[2] During high school and then college, Robinson had been exploring philosophical and theological questions and has said, "The Episcopal Church got a hold on me." He graduated from Sewanee with a Bachelor of Arts degree in American studies in 1969 and attended seminary that fall.[2] Robinson studied for a Master of Divinity degree from the Episcopal General Theological Seminary in New York City. While doing an intern year as a chaplain at the University of Vermont, he began dating his future wife, Isabella "Boo" McDaniel. Robinson says that about "a month into their relationship, [he] explained his background and his fears about his sexuality." They continued dating and, as Robinson puts it, "about a month before the marriage, [he] became frightened that ... this thing would raise its ugly head some day, and cause her and me great pain." Robinson and Boo discussed it and decided to go ahead with the marriage in 1972.[2]
Early career and children[edit]
Robinson received his degree in 1973 and was ordained a deacon in June 1973 at the cathedral of the diocese of Newark, New Jersey. He served as curate at Christ Church in Ridgewood, New Jersey, and was ordained a priest six months later. He and his wife remained at the Ridgewood parish for two years until June 1975. They then moved to New Hampshire, where Boo had grown up. Their goal was to start a business and ministry: in the winter it was called "The Sign of the Dove Retreat Center" and in the summer it became "Pony Farm". Boo still runs "Pony Farm" as a horse camp for children.[2] In 1977, Robinson began working with a committee in the Diocese of New Hampshire to study human sexuality and co-authored a small manual on the subject.[2] Robinson and Boo's first daughter, Jamee, was born in 1977, followed by a second daughter, Ella, in 1981.[2] Robinson treasures his marriage stating, "[T]hat is inextricably tied up with having children. And since I cannot imagine my life without Jamee and Ella, it's just a completely irrelevant question for me. And I don't regret having been married to Boo, either, even if there had not been children. It's just a part of my journey, and why would I possibly regret that?"[2]
Coming out and career[edit]
Robinson came out to his and Boo's friends in 1985/1986[when?] and he sold out his part of the business to Boo. They remain friends.[2] In November 1987, Robinson met his partner, Mark Andrew, while on vacation in St. Croix. Andrew was on vacation and worked in Washington, D.C., at the national office of the Peace Corps. On July 2, 1988, Robinson and Andrew moved into a new house and had it blessed by Bishop Douglas Theuner, an event which they considered to be the formal recognition of their life together.[2] Andrew currently works in the New Hampshire state government. He was legally joined to Robinson in June 2008 in a private civil union ceremony, followed by a religious ceremony, both in St Paul's Church, Concord.[9] [10] Earlier, Robinson had said, "I always wanted to be a June bride." [11][12]
Robinson became Canon to the Ordinary in 1988, the executive assistant to the then bishop of New Hampshire, Douglas Theuner. Robinson remained in this job for the next seventeen years until he was elected bishop.[2] Robinson and his daughters are very close. Ella actively helped her father with public relations at the General Convention in 2003. Just a week before the General Convention, Robinson had been with his daughter Jamee and held his four-hour-old first granddaughter.[2] He now has two granddaughters.[3][13]
Election as bishop[edit]

 

 Bishop Robinson in 2005
Robinson was elected bishop by the New Hampshire diocese on June 7, 2003, at St. Paul's Church in Concord. Thirty-nine clergy votes and 83 lay votes were the threshold necessary to elect a bishop in the Diocese of New Hampshire at that time. The clergy voted 58 votes for Robinson and the laity voted 96 for Robinson on the second ballot.[2] The Episcopal Church requires in its Canon 16 that the election procedure and the candidate who is elected be subjected to review and must be consented to by the national church. No objections were raised to the procedure of the election. If diocesan election occurred within 120 days (3 months) of a General Convention, canon law requires consent by the House of Deputies and then the House of Bishops at the General Convention itself.[2] Consent to the election of Robinson was given in August at the 2003 General Convention. The General Convention of 2003 became the center for debate over Robinson's election, as conservatives and liberals within the Church argued over whether Robinson should be allowed to become bishop. Some conservative factions threatened a schism within both the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion should Robinson be elected. Before the House of Deputies can vote on a resolution, a legislative committee must examine the piece of legislation first. The Committee on the Consecration of Bishops held a two-hour hearing on Robinson's election and supporters and opponents were allowed to speak. One of the speakers was Robinson's daughter, Ella, who read a letter from his ex-wife Boo in strong support of Robinson. The House of Deputies, which consists of laypersons and priests, voted in the affirmative: the laity voted 63 in favor, 32 opposed, and 13 divided; the clergy voted 65 in favor, 31 opposed, and 12 divided.[2]
Robinson won the first two of three votes required for his election to be ratified, but allegations suddenly arose in August 2003 that Robinson had inappropriately touched a male parishioner and had connections with OutRight.org, which at the time carried a link to AllThingsBi.com, a resource site for bisexual people that included links to pornography sites. The final vote was postponed to address these last-minute charges. David W. Virtue, a critic of gay ordination, brought up the pornography allegation, claiming that: "Gene Robinson's website is linked by one click to 5,000 pornographic websites."[14] When no such link was found on the Diocese of New Hampshire web page profiling the bishop-elect, Virtue stated that the link was on the website of an organization Robinson supported. Robinson was already known to be associated with Outright, a secular organization for the support of young LGBT people. Fred Barnes, a Fox News commentator, repeated the allegations on the website of The Weekly Standard.[15] On the day the allegations arose, the website issued a press release [16] stating that it had removed the offending link, that it had been unaware of the pornographic links on allthingsbi.com, and that Robinson had no involvement with that particular chapter of Outright.
The male parishioner of Manchester, Vermont (in a diocese neighboring Robinson's) who had alleged the "touching," was then reported to have said, during the investigating committee's telephone call with him, that the acts in question were two separate occasions of what felt to him like intentionally seductive arm-squeezing and back-stroking, although in a public setting. The man acknowledged that others might have regarded the two incidents as "natural," yet the incidents were disturbing to him nonetheless.[2] The investigating committee's report also stated that man regretted having used the word "harassment" in his e-mail, and that man declined an invitation to bring formal charges.[2] After a two-day investigation, neither allegation proved of merit.[2] The House of Bishops voted for Robinson in the affirmative, with 62 in favor, 43 opposed, and 2 abstaining.[2]
Consecration as bishop[edit]
The election in New Hampshire, like all elections of bishops in the Episcopal Church, was done by a synodical election process, unlike many other parts of the Anglican Communion where bishops are appointed.[2] This detail would be misunderstood when the international commentary following Robinson's election suggested he should voluntarily step down or be asked to do so.[2] The Jeffrey John case in the Church of England is the best example to contrast the election of bishops with the appointment of bishops.[2] Jeffrey John is an openly gay priest living in a long-standing celibate relationship (he self-identifies as celibate) and was appointed as a bishop.[2] One person, the Bishop of Oxford, had the authority to make John the new Suffragan Bishop of Reading.[2] The Archbishop of Canterbury, however, allegedly persuaded him to not proceed with the appointment.[2] This precedent would be used by the wider Anglican Communion to pressure Robinson.[2] Robinson said that "there was not a single bishop involved in the choosing of me to be Bishop of New Hampshire."[2]
The Elections and Transitions Committee arranged for the Whittemore Center to be used for the consecration, a large hockey rink on the campus of the University of New Hampshire in Durham. The numbers expected were about 3,000 people, 300 press, a 200 strong choir, and 48 bishops. The security was strong: just as Barbara Harris had to wear a bullet-proof vest at her consecration,[17] Robinson was showing his bullet-proof vest to Harris herself. Robinson's parents, sister, daughter and their families and his ex-wife Boo were all at the consecration. Robinson was consecrated on November 2, 2003 in the presence of Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold and six co-consecrating bishops: 48 bishops in all.[2]
Robinson's election and consecration prompted a group of 19 bishops, led by Bishop Robert Duncan of the Diocese of Pittsburgh, to make a statement warning the church of a possible schism between the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, stated that "[it] will inevitably have a significant impact on the Anglican Communion throughout the world and it is too early to say what the result of that will be." He added: "[I]t is my hope that the church in America and the rest of the Anglican Communion will have the opportunity to consider this development before significant and irrevocable decisions are made in response."[18] Retired South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu stated that he did not see what "all the fuss" was about, saying the election would not roil the Church of the Province of Southern Africa. Other senior bishops of the church, like Archbishop Peter Akinola of the Church of Nigeria and head of the Global South, have made Robinson a figurehead in their dispute with the Episcopal Church.[citation needed] Some disaffected Episcopalians have disaffiliated from the Episcopal Church and formed the Convocation of Anglicans in North America with the support of the Nigerian church.
After consecration[edit]

 

 Bishop Robinson in 2006, during the 75th General Convention of The Episcopal Church
Reports from the UK describe how Robinson has received death threats, had to wear bulletproof vests, and needed protection since his election and consecration.[19] [20] [21]
In February 2006, Robinson was treated at an inpatient rehabilitation facility to deal with his "increasing dependence on alcohol".[2] Diocesan officials were surprised by the news and asserted that they did not notice his alcoholism affect his ministry in any way. The Episcopal Church, through its General Convention, has long recognized alcoholism as a treatable human disease, not a failure of character or will. The members of the Standing Committee issued a statement fully supporting Robinson.[22] He returned to work in March 2006.[23]
Robinson was featured prominently in a documentary film entitled For the Bible Tells Me So, which screened at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.[24][25]
In 2008, Robinson said that he had led a retreat a few years before for gay Catholic priests.[citation needed] He has opposed the Roman Catholic ban on homosexual seminarians, stating: "I find it so vile that they think they are going to end the child abuse scandal by throwing out homosexuals from seminaries."[26]
Due to the controversy surrounding his consecration, Bishop Robinson was not invited to the 2008 Lambeth Conferences by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams.[27] A group of conservative bishops (including Akinola and Duncan) who opposed Robinson's consecration gathered in Jerusalem one month prior to Lambeth 2008, at the Global Anglican Future Conference, an event which is perceived by some as schismatic.[28] [29]
Robinson did however visit the United Kingdom privately in July 2008, during which he participated in a film screening and question and answer session with Sir Ian McKellen at the Royal Festival Hall, and was invited to preach at St Mary's Putney, events which attracted much media attention. The sermon was interrupted by a heckler who was then escorted out of the service. Robinson asked the rest of the congregation, most of whom greeted the interruption with slow-clapping, to "pray for that man", before completing his sermon.[30][31][32][33] The Primate of the Episcopal Church of the Sudan, Archbishop Daniel Deng Bul, on July 22 at a public press conference during the 2008 Lambeth Conference called for Robinson to resign, and for all those who had participated in his consecration to confess their sin to the conference.[34]
In 2009 Robinson was selected to deliver the invocation at the kickoff event of President Barack Obama's inaugural weekend. Despite his extended involvement with Obama during the campaign, his selection was widely discussed as an effort to counterbalance the role of the choice of evangelical pastor Rick Warren. Media outlets noted Warren compared the legitimization of same-sex marriage to the legalization of "incest, polygamy or 'an older guy marrying a child'".[35][36][37][38][39] Warren also supported California Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in the state.[40][41] However, Warren took a conciliatory tone towards Obama: "I applaud his desire to be the president of every citizen."[42] The kickoff event was held at the Lincoln Memorial two days before Obama's swearing-in.[43] It asked "the God of our many understandings" for seven blessings, and to help Obama, as President, in seven ways. Neither HBO's exclusive live broadcast, nor the Presidential Inauguration Committee's blog of the event included the invocation, but the prepared text was posted in full on the website of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire, and video shot informally by attendees was posted on YouTube. National Public Radio, which relied on the HBO feed that omitted it, broadcast a recording the following day with an interview of Robinson about its limited exposure; in that venue, Robinson described it as conforming to the four-fold Franciscan prayer model. According to the Washington Blade, it was the Presidential Inaugural Committee that made the decision for the prayer to be a part of the pre-show and not the show, itself, with a spokesman from that committee maintaining the prayer was dropped through an unspecified "error." Some gay activists maintain that this was a slight on the part of the Obama administration.[44]
In April 2009, Robinson made the Out magazine Third Annual Power 50 list of the most influential gay men and women in the USA, landing at number 7.[45] In August 2009, Gene Robinson was a key speaker at the 2009 Greenbelt Festival, held at Cheltenham Racecourse, Gloucestershire, England. Here he delivered three talks, each garnering an attendance in the thousands, based not only on his views of Christianity and homosexuality, but also on human sexuality in general and the rights of LGBT members of society. The three talks were entitled "Homosexuality: What the Bible says & why it matters", "Keeping your cool in the eye of the storm" and "Sexuality and spirituality: keeping them together".[46] As well as these three talks, Gene Robinson made a big impact on some gay and lesbian festival-goers by leading them collectively in prayer on the second night of the festival as part of a small group.
He is an outspoken supporter of abortion rights, following the official stance of the Episcopal Church.[47]
See also[edit]

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Notes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Otis Charles is a retired bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Utah. After his retirement in 1993, Charles publicly came out as a gay man, the first Christian bishop ever to take such a step.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Stephen Bates (2003-10-30). "The Guardian profile: Gene Robinson". The Guardian. Robinson states his birth name as Vicky Gene Robinson from his grandfather Victor and his mother Imogene; as a baby he was not expected to survive and his parents were expecting a girl. Various reliable sources also reported "Vicki" and "Imogene". Robinson and most reliable sources use V. Gene Robinson.
2.^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj Adams, Elizabeth (2006). Going to Heaven: The Life and Election of Bishop Gene Robinson. Brooklyn, NY: Soft Skull Press. ISBN 1-933368-22-5.
3.^ Jump up to: a b "The Right Reverend V. Gene Robinson: IX Bishop of New Hampshire". Diocese of New Hampshire.
4.Jump up ^ "Gay bishop Gene Robinson: '20 years ago, coming out was almost like committing suicide'". Pink News. 2009-09-09.
5.Jump up ^ Ross Kerber, Peter Cooney (2010-11-07). "First openly gay Episcopal bishop to retire in 2013". Reuters.
6.Jump up ^ Robinson, Gene (November 6, 2010). "Bishop of New Hampshire Calls for Election of Successor". Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire. Retrieved January 5, 2013.
7.Jump up ^ Terry Gross (2013-01-10). "Fresh Air interview".
8.Jump up ^ Timmins, AnnMarie (2003-07-19). "Years of rejection, now understanding: Bishop-elect has accepted his homosexuality". Concord Monitor. Retrieved 2012-12-13.
9.Jump up ^ Norma Love (2008-06-09). "N.H. Gay Bishop, Partner Unite in Civil Union". The New York Sun. Associated Press.
10.Jump up ^ "Bishop Robinson, Mark Andrew joined in Civil Union". Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire. 2008-06-07. Archived from the original on 2008-12-14.
11.Jump up ^ Priscilla Greear (2007-12-04). "Gay Episcopal Bishop Prepares for June Wedding". EDGE Miami.
12.Jump up ^ "Gay bishop plans civil union with partner of 18 years". Reuters. 2007-05-10. Archived from the original on 2007-05-16.
13.Jump up ^ "New Hampshire's Bishop Gene Robinson". NPR (Fresh Air from WHYY). 2004-12-09.
14.Jump up ^ Flad, Ethan (2003-08-05). "Virtual Trickery Backfires". thewitness.org. Retrieved 2007-10-26.
15.Jump up ^ Barnes, Fred (2003-08-04). "The Gay Bishop's Links: Episcopalian bishop-elect Gene Robinson has some curious affiliations". The Weekly Standard.
16.Jump up ^ Cathy Kidman (2003-08-04). "Outright: News Release August 4, 2003". Archived from the original on 2005-11-26.
17.Jump up ^ Ruth Gledhill (2009-12-10). "Canon Mary Glasspool: time for Church to open door to rights for gays". The Times.
18.Jump up ^ "Archbishop - difficult days ahead". Archbishop of Canterbury. 2003-08-06. Archived from the original on 2007-02-02.
19.Jump up ^ Buncombe, Andrew (2003-11-03). "Consecrated: but nothing prepared Gene Robinson for the protests". The Independent. Retrieved 2010-07-11.
20.Jump up ^ "Williams criticised by gay bishop". BBC News. 2008-04-30. Retrieved 2010-07-11.
21.Jump up ^ "Robinson under FBI protection after death threats". The Advocate. 2003-10-28. Retrieved 2012-12-13.
22.Jump up ^ Bibber, Paula (2006-02-13). "Letters from the Bishop and the Standing Committee". Diocese of New Hampshire news release. Archived from the original on 2010-01-20.
23.Jump up ^ Robinson, V. Gene (2006-03-07). "Bishop's Return". Diocese of New Hampshire news release. Archived from the original on 2010-01-20.
24.Jump up ^ "For the Bible Tells Me So". Forthebibletellsmeso.org. Retrieved 2012-12-13.
25.Jump up ^ For the Bible Tells Me So at the Internet Movie Database
26.Jump up ^ "Gay bishop attacks Catholic stand". BBC News. 2005-11-06. Retrieved 2012-12-13.
27.Jump up ^ Landau, Christopher (2008-01-01). "US Church 'unfairly criticised'". BBC News. Retrieved 2012-12-13. "But Presiding Bishop Jefferts Schori says she thinks he might yet be invited."
28.Jump up ^ Richard Vara (2008-01-12). "Carey says Anglican Communion is in crisis". Houston Chronicle.
29.Jump up ^ "Global Anglican Future Conference in Holy Land announced by Orthodox Primates". GAFCON. 2007-12-24. Archived from the original on 2008-10-05.
30.Jump up ^ "Preaching to the converted—Gene Robinson is the Anglican church's only openly gay bishop. He was denied an invitation to this week's Lambeth conference but came anyway and on Sunday gave a dramatic sermon in London disrupted by heckling. What's all the fuss about? Stephen Bates explains, while political sketch-writer Simon Hoggart, theatre critic Lyn Gardner and gay atheist Gareth McLean review the bishop's performance". The Guardian. July 14, 2008. Retrieved April 28, 2009.
31.Jump up ^ Siddique, Haroon (July 14, 2008). "Gene Robinson 'saddened' by London church heckler—The presence in the UK of the first openly gay Anglican bishop has highlighted the schism within the church". The Guardian. Retrieved April 28, 2009.
32.Jump up ^ "Protest disrupts bishop's sermon". BBC News. July 13, 2008. Retrieved April 28, 2009.
33.Jump up ^ Davies, Rob (July 18, 2008). "Sir Ian McKellen: I received death threats". London: The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved April 28, 2009.
34.Jump up ^ Mary Frances Schjonberg (2008-07-22). "Sudanese primate wants Robinson's resignation". Episcopal Church. Retrieved 2012-12-13.
35.Jump up ^ "Obama's choice of Rick Warren to lead prayer dismays Hollywood liberals" by Tina Daunt, LA Times, December 20, 2009.
36.Jump up ^ "Obama’s Choice of Pastor Creates Furor" by Jeff Zeleny and David D. Kirkpatrick; New York Times, December 19, 2008.
37.Jump up ^ "Rick Warren Chooses Silence" by Laurie Goodstein, New York Times, January 15, 2009.
38.Jump up ^ Pastor Warren Sets Inclusive Tone at Inaugural: Under Fire for Anti-Gay Views, Warren Avoids Controversy at Obama's Inaugural Invocation by Susan Donaldson James; ABC News. January 20, 2009.
39.Jump up ^ "Gays, lesbians hopeful despite inaugural pastor" by Rachel Gordon, San Francisco Chronicle, January 21, 2009.
40.Jump up ^ "Initiative Measure Title and Summary (07-0068)" (PDF). California Attorney General. 2007-11-29.
41.Jump up ^ "Proposition 8 - Title and Summary - Voter Information Guide 2008". California Secretary of State. 2008-07-03.
42.Jump up ^ "Pastor Rick Warren Sparks 'Culture Wars' - ABC News". Google.com. Retrieved 2009-11-28.
43.Jump up ^ Obama chooses gay bishop to pray at inaugural event, January 13, 2009, Los Angeles Times.
44.Jump up ^ Why gay bishop's prayer didn't air on HBO music special, January 19, 2009, San Francisco Chronicle.
45.Jump up ^ "3rd Annual Power 50". Out. 2009-04-03.
46.Jump up ^ "Greenbelt 2009 – Standing in the Long Now". Greenbelt festival. 2009.
47.Jump up ^ [1]
Further reading[edit]
Hein, David; Gardiner H. Shattuck, Jr. (2004). The Episcopalians. New York: Church Publishing. ISBN 0-89869-497-3.
Robinson, Gene (2008). In the Eye of the Storm: Swept to the Center by God. Seabury Books. ISBN 1-59627-088-8.
External links[edit]
Biography of Bishop Robinson at the Diocese of New Hampshire website
Messages from Bishop Robinson
CNN June 8, 2003 "Episcopalians Approve Gay Bishop, and Conflict"
CNN Nov. 2, 2003 "Gay bishop-elect: 'This is what God wants for me'"
The Guardian 10/21/03 "Profile: Gene Robinson"
Online radio interview with Gene Robinson and Donald Armstrong, March 2007
Invocation at "We Are One" Concert before Obama Inaugural, YouTube video recorded January 18, 2009.
Interview of Gene Robinson by Terry Gross of NPR Station WHYY's Fresh Air, January 2013
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Romaine Patterson (born March 31, 1978) is an American gay rights activist, radio personality, and author. She first received national attention for her activism at the funeral of murdered gay student Matthew Shepard; the two were friends in high school. She is currently the co-host with Derek Hartley of the Derek and Romaine show on Sirius Satellite Radio's SIRIUS OutQ channel 109 and XM Satellite Radio channel 98.

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Born in Wyoming, Patterson is the youngest of eight children. Three of her brothers are gay, and one of them, Michael, died from AIDS. She spent several summers during high school in Denver, Colorado, living with her brothers and working at Diedrich's Coffee Shop.
Openly lesbian, Patterson lives in New Jersey with her partner Iris and her first child, a daughter born July 2007, also named Romaine.[1]
Activism[edit]
Patterson's best-known activist work was her response to the planned anti-gay protests by Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church during the trials of Russell Henderson and Aaron McKinney for the murder of Matthew Shepard. Patterson organized counter protests known as "Angel Action", in which groups of people dress as angels with extremely large wings that shielded the families from Phelps and his group. Patterson was later depicted in The Laramie Project, a play about the event based on interviews with the participants. In the film version of the play, she was portrayed by actress Christina Ricci. She was portrayed by Canadian actress Kristen Thomson in the TV movie The Matthew Shepard Story.
Patterson later worked at the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation as a Regional Media Manager. She has written a book about her experiences as an activist since Shepard's death, called The Whole World Was Watching.
Works[edit]
Patterson, Romaine; Hinds, Patrick (2005), The Whole World Was Watching: Living in the Light of Matthew Shepard, Advocate Books, ISBN 1-55583-901-0
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Najafi, Yusef (November 8, 2007), "Avenging Angel", Metro Weekly, retrieved 2007-11-28
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Derek Hartley (born on October 28, 1969) is an American talk show host, who serves as co-host of the Derek and Romaine Show, a talk radio show on Sirius XM Satellite Radio's Gay/Lesbian channel, OutQ. The show has a national audience with a potential reach of 18,000,000 listeners. The show can also be heard worldwide on the internet. He serves as emcee/host of GLBT events around the country.

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Early life and career[edit]
Hartley was born at Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg, Virginia.[1] He is the oldest of five siblings, all with different last names: Tiffany White, Adam Forgie, Alyssa Naley and Zach Millom. A military brat, he lived in several states before the age of four. He attended kindergarten in Utah and first through third grades in Sebastopol, California at Apple Blossom Elementary School.
His parents divorced and Hartley and his sister divided their time and school years between California and Utah. [1] Between fourth and ninth grade, he attended almost a dozen different schools. He graduated from Alhambra High School in Alhambra, California in 1987 and attended the California State University at Los Angeles.[2]
Hartley joined PlanetOut.com in May 1996 as a volunteer in the PopcornQ area on America Online. He hosted online celebrity interviews for PlanetOut on AOL in 1996 and 1997. In March 1997, he created FantasyMan Island, [2] an online dating area for PlanetOut, which ran until January 2005, and wrote a weekly relationship advice column there. From 1997-1999, he also worked directly for America Online, developing entertainment content for their Entertainment Asylum area.
In December 2000, Hartley was introduced to Fred Seibert by former AOL co-worker Emil Rensing and joined Frederator in January 2001. While there, he developed online marketing campaigns for Seventeen magazine, Tiger Beat and The New TNN (later Spike TV) for Viacom.
Derek & Romaine Show[edit]
In late 2002, John McMullen, who met Hartley at the PlanetOut launch party in September 1996 in San Francisco, California, offered Hartley a dating/relationship show on a proposed gay talk channel on Sirius Satellite Radio. In March 2003, while searching for a producer for the show, McMullen hired former activist Romaine Patterson to serve as producer and co-host of the show. The two met only once before beginning work together as a radio duo. [3] The show launched in April 2003 as a three hour talk show airing from 6-9pm ET each weekday. [4] Later the show was expanded to four hours from 6-10pm ET. Guests on the show have included: Donald Trump, Martha Stewart, Meredith Vieira, Charo, Olivia Newton-John, Samuel L. Jackson, k.d. lang and Jenna Jameson.
In 2007 Derek Hartley was nominated for a GayVN Award for Best Non-Sex Performance in the film Big Rig and the following year hosted the ceremonies.[3]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Reality Bytes: Gay 'Shock Jock' Hartley".
2.Jump up ^ http://www.classmates.com/directory/college/California%20State%20University_10.jsp?org=17652781
3.Jump up ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GayVN
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President Obama with Louvon Harris, Betty Byrd Boatner, and Judy Shepard

 President Barack Obama greets Louvon Harris, left, Betty Byrd Boatner, right, both sisters of James Byrd, Jr., and Judy Shepard at a reception commemorating the enactment of the legislation
The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, also known as the Matthew Shepard Act, is an American Act of Congress, passed on October 22, 2009,[1] and signed into law by President Barack Obama on October 28, 2009,[2] as a rider to the National Defense Authorization Act for 2010 (H.R. 2647). Conceived as a response to the murders of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr., the measure expands the 1969 United States federal hate-crime law to include crimes motivated by a victim's actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability.[3]
The bill also:
removes the prerequisite that the victim be engaging in a federally protected activity, like voting or going to school;
gives federal authorities greater ability to engage in hate crimes investigations that local authorities choose not to pursue;
provides $5 million per year in funding for fiscal years 2010 through 2012 to help state and local agencies pay for investigating and prosecuting hate crimes;
requires the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to track statistics on hate crimes based on gender and gender identity (statistics for the other groups were already tracked).[4][5]
The Act is the first federal law to extend legal protections to transgender people.[6]

Contents
  [hide] 1 Origin
2 Background
3 Opposition
4 Legislative progress 4.1 107th to 109th congress
4.2 110th Congress
4.3 111th Congress 4.3.1 House
4.3.2 Senate
4.4 Passage
5 Legislative History
6 Enforcement
7 Court challenges
8 See also
9 References
10 External links
Origin[edit]
The Act is named after Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr.[7] Shepard was a student who was tortured and murdered in 1998 near Laramie, Wyoming. The attack was widely reported due to his being gay, and the trial employed a gay panic defense.[7][8] Byrd was an African American man who was tied to a truck by two white supremacists, dragged behind it, and decapitated in Jasper, Texas, in 1998.[7] Shepard's murderers were given life sentences—in large part because his parents sought mercy for his killers. Two of Byrd's murderers were sentenced to death, while the third was sentenced to life in prison. All the convictions were obtained without the assistance of hate crimes laws, since none was applicable at the time.
The murders and subsequent trials brought national and international attention to the desire to amend U.S. hate crime legislation at both the state and federal levels.[9] Wyoming hate crime laws at the time did not recognize homosexuals as a suspect class,[10] whereas Texas had no hate crimes law at all.[11]
Supporters of an expansion of hate crime laws argued that hate crimes are worse than regular crimes without a prejudiced motivation from a psychological perspective. The time it takes to mentally recover from a hate crime is almost twice as long as it is for a regular crime and LGBT people often feel as if they are being punished for their sexuality, which leads to higher incidence of depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder.[12] They also cited the response to Shepard's murder by many LGBT people, especially youth, who reported going back into the closet, fearing for their safety, experiencing a strong sense of self-loathing, and upset that the same thing could happen to them because of their sexual orientation.[12]
Background[edit]
The 1969 federal hate-crime law (18 U.S.C. § 245(b)(2)) extends to crimes motivated by actual or perceived race, color, religion, or national origin, and only while the victim is engaging in a federally protected activity, like voting or going to school.[13] Penalties, under both the existing law and the LLEHCPA (Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act, originally called the "Local Law Enforcement Enhancement Act"), for hate crimes involving firearms are prison terms of up to 10 years, while crimes involving kidnapping, sexual assault, or murder can bring life in prison. In 1990, Congress passed the Hate Crimes Statistics Act which allowed the government to count the incidence of hate crimes based on religion, race, national origin, and sexual orientation. However, a sentence was added on to the end of bill stating that federal funds should not be used to “promote or encourage homosexuality.”[14]
According to FBI statistics, of the over 113,000 hate crimes since 1991, 55% were motivated by racial bias, 17% by religious bias, 14% sexual orientation bias, 14% ethnicity bias, and 1% disability bias.[12][15]
Though not necessarily on the same scale as Matthew Shepard’s murder, violent incidences against gays and lesbians occur frequently. Gay and lesbian people are often verbally abused, assaulted both physically and sexually, and threatened not just by peers and strangers, but also by family members.[16] One study of 192 gay men aged 14–21 found that approximately 1/3 reported being verbally assaulted by at least one family member when they came out and another 10% reported being physically assaulted.[17] Gay and lesbian youth are particularly prone to victimization. A nationwide study of over 9000 gay high school students, 24% of gay men reported being victimized at least 10 times per year because of their sexual orientation; 11% of homosexual women reported the same thing.[17] Victims often experience severe depression, a sense of helplessness, low self-esteem, and frequent suicidal thoughts.[18] Gay youth are two to four times more likely to be threatened with a deadly weapon at school and miss more days of school than their heterosexual peers. Further, they are two to seven times more likely to attempt suicide. These issues, the societal stigma around homosexuality and fear of bias-motivated attack, lead to gay men and women, especially teenagers, becoming more likely to abuse drugs such as marijuana and cocaine and alcohol, have unprotected sex with multiple sexual partners, find themselves in unwanted sexual situations, have body image and eating disorders, and be at higher risk for STDs and HIV/AIDS.[17]
The Act was supported by thirty-one state Attorneys General and over 210 national law enforcement, professional, education, civil rights, religious, and civic organizations, including the AFL-CIO, the American Medical Association, the American Psychological Association, and the NAACP.[19] A November 2001 poll indicated that 73% of Americans were in favor of hate-crime legislation covering sexual orientation.[20]
The LLEHCPA was introduced in substantially similar form in each Congress since the 105th Congress in 1999. The 2007 bill expanded on the earlier versions by including transgender provisions and making it explicit that the law should not be interpreted to restrict people's freedom of speech or association.[21]
Opposition[edit]
James Dobson, founder of the socially conservative lobbying group Focus on the Family, opposed the Act, arguing that it would effectively "muzzle people of faith who dare to express their moral and biblical concerns about homosexuality."[13] However, HR 1592 contains a "Rule of Construction" which specifically provides that "Nothing in this Act...shall be construed to prohibit any expressive conduct protected from legal prohibition by, or any activities protected by the free speech or free exercise clauses of, the First Amendment to the Constitution."[22]
Senator Jeff Sessions, among other Senators, was concerned that the bill would not protect all individuals equally.[23] Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina spoke against the bill, saying that it was unnecessary, that it violated the 14th Amendment, and that it would be a step closer to the prosecution of "thought crimes".[24][25] Four members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights wrote a letter stating their opposition to the bill, citing concerns of double jeopardy.[26]
Legislative progress[edit]
107th to 109th congress[edit]
The bill was first introduced into the 107 Congress's House of Representatives on April 3, 2001, by Rep. John Conyers and was referred to the Subcommittee on Crime. The bill died when it failed to advance in the committee.
It was reintroduced by Rep. Conyers in the 108th and 109th congresses (on April 22, 2004 and May 26, 2005, respectively). As previously, it died both times when it failed to advance in committee.
Similar legislation was introduced by Sen. Gordon H. Smith (R-OR) as an amendment to the Ronald W. Reagan National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2005 (S. 2400) on June 14, 2004. Though the amendment passed the U.S. Senate by a vote of 65-33,[27] the amendment was later removed by conference committee.
110th Congress[edit]
See also: 110th United States Congress
The bill was introduced for the fourth time into the House on March 30, 2007, by Conyers. The 2007 version of the bill added gender identity to the list of suspect classes for prosecution of hate crimes. The bill was again referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security.

 

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The bill passed the subcommittee by voice vote and the full House Judiciary Committee by a vote of 20–14. The bill then proceeded to the full House, where it was passed on May 3, 2007, with a vote of 237–180 with Representative Barney Frank, one of two openly gay members of the House at the time, presiding.[28]
The bill then proceeded to the U.S. Senate, where it was introduced by Senator Ted Kennedy and Senator Gordon Smith on April 12, 2007. It was referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee. The bill died when it failed to advance in the Senate committee.
On July 11, 2007, Kennedy attempted to introduce the bill again as an amendment to the Senate Defense Reauthorization bill (H.R. 1585). The Senate hate crime amendment had 44 cosponsors, including four Republicans. After Republicans staged a filibuster on a troop-withdrawal amendment to the defense bill, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid delayed the votes on the hate crime amendment and the defense bill until September.[29]
The bill passed the Senate on September 27, 2007, as an amendment to the Defense Reauthorization bill. The cloture vote was 60–39 in favor. The amendment was then approved by voice vote.[30] President Bush indicated he might veto the DoD authorization bill if it reached his desk with the hate crimes legislation attached.[31][32] Ultimately, the amendment was dropped by the Democratic leadership because of opposition from antiwar Democrats, conservative groups, and Bush.[33]
In late 2008, then-President-elect Barack Obama's website stated that one of the goals of his new administration would be to see the bill passed.[34]
111th Congress[edit]
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Conyers introduced the bill for the fifth time into the House on April 2, 2009. In his introductory speech, he claimed that many law enforcement groups, such as the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the National Sheriffs Association and 31 state Attorneys General support the bill[35] and that the impact hate violence has on communities justifies federal involvement.[36]
The bill was immediately referred to the full Judiciary Committee, where it passed by a vote of 15–12 on April 23, 2009.[37]
On April 28, 2009, Rep. Mike Honda (D-CA) claimed that if the bill were passed it may help prevent the murders of transgender Americans, such as the murder of Angie Zapata.[38] Conversely, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) claimed that the bill was an expansion of a category of "thought crimes" and compared the bill to the book Nineteen Eighty-Four.[39] That same day, the House Rules Committee allowed one hour and 20 minutes for debate.[40]
The bill then moved to the full House, for debate. During the debate, Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) claimed that the bill would help prevent murders such as those of spree killer Benjamin Nathaniel Smith and would take "an important step" towards a more just society.[41] After the vote, Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) claimed that equal protection regardless of status is a fundamental premise of the nation and thus the bill is unnecessary, and that, rather, it would prevent religious organizations from expressing their beliefs openly (although the bill only refers to violent actions, not speech.)[42]
The bill passed the House on April 29, 2009, by a vote of 249–175, with support from 231 Democrats and 18 Republicans, including Republican Main Street Partnership members Judy Biggert (IL), Mary Bono Mack (CA), Joseph Cao (LA), Mike Castle (DE), Charlie Dent (PA), Lincoln Diaz-Balart (FL), Mario Diaz-Balart (FL), Rodney Frelinghuysen (NJ), Jim Gerlach (PA), Mark Kirk (IL), Leonard Lance (NJ), Frank LoBiondo (NJ), Todd Russell Platts (PA), Dave Reichert (WA), and Greg Walden (OR) along with Bill Cassidy (LA), Mike Coffman (CO), and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (FL).[43]
On April 30, 2009, Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-KS) compared the bill to the novel Animal Farm and claimed it would harm free speech.[44] Rep. George Miller (D-CA) and Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD) both announced that they were unable to be present for the vote, but had they been present they would each have voted in favor.[45][46] Conversely, Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX) claimed federal law was already sufficient to prevent hate crimes and said that had he been present he would have voted against the bill.[47]
On October 8, 2009, the House passed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act as part of the conference report on Defense Authorization for fiscal year 2010.[48] The vote was 281-146, with support from 237 Democrats and 44 Republicans.[43]
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The bill again proceeded to the Senate, where it was again introduced by Kennedy on April 28, 2009.[49] The Senate version of the bill had 45 cosponsors as of July 8, 2009.[50]
On June 25, 2009, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the bill. Attorney General Eric Holder testified in support of the bill, the first time a sitting Attorney General has ever testified in favor of the bill.[51] During his testimony, Holder mentioned his previous testimony on a nearly identical bill to the senate in July 1998 (the Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 1998, S.1529), just months before Matthew Shepard was murdered.[52] According to CNN, Holder testified that, "more than 77,000 hate crime incidents were reported by the FBI between 1998 and 2007, or 'nearly one hate crime for every hour of every day over the span of a decade.'" Holder emphasized that one of his "highest personal priorities ... is to do everything I can to ensure this critical legislation finally becomes law."[53]
Reverend Mark Achtemeier of the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary, Janet Langhart, whose play was premiering at the United States Holocaust Museum at the time of the shooting earlier in the month and Michael Lieberman of the Anti-Defamation League also testified in favor of the bill. Gail Heriot of the United States Commission on Civil Rights and Brian Walsh of the Heritage Foundation testified in opposition to the bill.
The Matthew Shepard Act was adopted as an amendment to S. 1390 (the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010) by a 63-28 cloture vote on July 15, 2009.[54] At the request of Senator Jeff Sessions (an opponent of the Matthew Shepard Act), an amendment was added to the Senate version of the hate crimes legislation that would have allowed prosecutors to seek the death penalty for hate crime murders,[55] though the amendment was later removed in conference with the House.[56]
The bill won the support of five Republicans: Susan Collins (ME), Dick Lugar (IN), Lisa Murkowski (AK), Olympia Snowe (ME), and George Voinovich (OH).
Passage[edit]
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The bill passed the Senate when the Defense bill passed on July 23, 2009.[57] As originally passed, the House version of the defense bill did not include the hate crimes legislation, requiring the difference to be worked out in a Conference committee. On October 7, 2009, the Conference committee published the final version of the bill, which included the hate crimes amendment;[58] the conference report was then passed by the House on October 8, 2009.[59] On October 22, 2009, following a 64-35 cloture vote,[60][61] the conference report was passed by the Senate by a vote of 68-29.[62] The bill was signed into law on the afternoon of October 28, 2009 by President Barack Obama.[2]
Legislative History[edit]

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107th Congress Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2001 H.R. 1343 April 3, 2001 Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) 208 Died in the House Subcommittee on Crime
S. 625 March 27, 2001 Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) 50 Failed cloture motion 54-43
108th Congress Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2004 H.R. 4204 April 22, 2004 Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) 178 Died in the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security
S.Amdt. 3183 to S. 2400 June 14, 2004 Sen. Gordon H. Smith (R-OR) 4 Passed in the Senate (65-33) as an amendment to the Ronald W. Reagan National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2005 S. 2400
Removed from conference report
109th Congress Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2005 H.R. 2662 May 26, 2005 Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) 159 Died in the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security
S. 1145 May 26, 2005 Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) 45 Died in the Senate Judiciary Committee
110th Congress Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007 H.R. 1592 March 30, 2007 Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) 171 Passed the House (237–180)
S. 1105 April 12, 2007 Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) 44 Died in the Senate Judiciary Committee
111th Congress Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009 H.R. 1913 April 2, 2009 Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) 120 Passed the House (249–175) as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 H.R. 2647.
S. 909 April 28, 2009 Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) 45 Died in the Senate Judiciary Committee (after the Leahy version passed)
S.Amdt. 1511 to S. 1390 July 15, 2009 Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) 37 Passed in the Senate (63-28) as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010.[57] Signed into law October 28, 2009 by President Barack Obama.
Enforcement[edit]
In May 2011, a man in Arkansas pled guilty under the Act to running a car containing five Hispanic men off the road. As a result, he became the first person ever convicted under the Act. A second man involved in the same incident was later convicted under the Act; his appeal of that conviction was upheld on August 6, 2012.[63][64][65]
In August 2011, one man in New Mexico pled guilty to branding a swastika into the arm of a developmentally disabled man of Navajo descent. A second man entered a guilty plea to conspiracy to commit a federal hate crime. The two men were accused of branding the victim, shaving a swastika into his head, and writing the words "white power" and the acronym "KKK" on his body. A third man in June 2011, entered a guilty plea to conspiracy to commit a federal hate crime. All three men were charged under the Act in December 2010.[66]
On March 15, 2012, the Kentucky State Police assisted the FBI in arresting David Jenkins, Anthony Jenkins, Mable Jenkins, and Alexis Jenkins of Partridge, KY for the beating of Kevin Pennington during a late-night attack in April 2011 at Kingdom Come State Park,[67][68] near Cumberland. The push came from the gay-rights group Kentucky Equality Federation, whose president, Jordan Palmer, began lobbying the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky in August 2011[69] to prosecute after stating he had no confidence in the Harlan County Commonwealth's Attorney to act.[70] "I think the case's notoriety may have derived in large part from the Kentucky Equality Federation efforts," said Harvey, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky.[71] Mable Jenkins, and Alexis Jenkins plead guilty.[71]
Court challenges[edit]
The constitutionality of the law was challenged in a 2010 lawsuit filed by the Thomas More Law Center; the lawsuit was dismissed.[72]
William Hatch, who pleaded guilty to a hate crime in the New Mexico case, also contested the law on Constitutional grounds. The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals heard the case (U.S. v. Hatch) and upheld the conviction on June 3, 2013.[73]
See also[edit]

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H.R. 1592, the House bill
S. 1105, the Senate bill
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Text of floor speeches by Senators Kennedy, Bayh, and Schumer introducing the bill in the Senate on April 12, 2007
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President Obama with Louvon Harris, Betty Byrd Boatner, and Judy Shepard

 President Barack Obama greets Louvon Harris, left, Betty Byrd Boatner, right, both sisters of James Byrd, Jr., and Judy Shepard at a reception commemorating the enactment of the legislation
The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, also known as the Matthew Shepard Act, is an American Act of Congress, passed on October 22, 2009,[1] and signed into law by President Barack Obama on October 28, 2009,[2] as a rider to the National Defense Authorization Act for 2010 (H.R. 2647). Conceived as a response to the murders of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr., the measure expands the 1969 United States federal hate-crime law to include crimes motivated by a victim's actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability.[3]
The bill also:
removes the prerequisite that the victim be engaging in a federally protected activity, like voting or going to school;
gives federal authorities greater ability to engage in hate crimes investigations that local authorities choose not to pursue;
provides $5 million per year in funding for fiscal years 2010 through 2012 to help state and local agencies pay for investigating and prosecuting hate crimes;
requires the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to track statistics on hate crimes based on gender and gender identity (statistics for the other groups were already tracked).[4][5]
The Act is the first federal law to extend legal protections to transgender people.[6]

Contents
  [hide] 1 Origin
2 Background
3 Opposition
4 Legislative progress 4.1 107th to 109th congress
4.2 110th Congress
4.3 111th Congress 4.3.1 House
4.3.2 Senate
4.4 Passage
5 Legislative History
6 Enforcement
7 Court challenges
8 See also
9 References
10 External links
Origin[edit]
The Act is named after Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr.[7] Shepard was a student who was tortured and murdered in 1998 near Laramie, Wyoming. The attack was widely reported due to his being gay, and the trial employed a gay panic defense.[7][8] Byrd was an African American man who was tied to a truck by two white supremacists, dragged behind it, and decapitated in Jasper, Texas, in 1998.[7] Shepard's murderers were given life sentences—in large part because his parents sought mercy for his killers. Two of Byrd's murderers were sentenced to death, while the third was sentenced to life in prison. All the convictions were obtained without the assistance of hate crimes laws, since none was applicable at the time.
The murders and subsequent trials brought national and international attention to the desire to amend U.S. hate crime legislation at both the state and federal levels.[9] Wyoming hate crime laws at the time did not recognize homosexuals as a suspect class,[10] whereas Texas had no hate crimes law at all.[11]
Supporters of an expansion of hate crime laws argued that hate crimes are worse than regular crimes without a prejudiced motivation from a psychological perspective. The time it takes to mentally recover from a hate crime is almost twice as long as it is for a regular crime and LGBT people often feel as if they are being punished for their sexuality, which leads to higher incidence of depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder.[12] They also cited the response to Shepard's murder by many LGBT people, especially youth, who reported going back into the closet, fearing for their safety, experiencing a strong sense of self-loathing, and upset that the same thing could happen to them because of their sexual orientation.[12]
Background[edit]
The 1969 federal hate-crime law (18 U.S.C. § 245(b)(2)) extends to crimes motivated by actual or perceived race, color, religion, or national origin, and only while the victim is engaging in a federally protected activity, like voting or going to school.[13] Penalties, under both the existing law and the LLEHCPA (Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act, originally called the "Local Law Enforcement Enhancement Act"), for hate crimes involving firearms are prison terms of up to 10 years, while crimes involving kidnapping, sexual assault, or murder can bring life in prison. In 1990, Congress passed the Hate Crimes Statistics Act which allowed the government to count the incidence of hate crimes based on religion, race, national origin, and sexual orientation. However, a sentence was added on to the end of bill stating that federal funds should not be used to “promote or encourage homosexuality.”[14]
According to FBI statistics, of the over 113,000 hate crimes since 1991, 55% were motivated by racial bias, 17% by religious bias, 14% sexual orientation bias, 14% ethnicity bias, and 1% disability bias.[12][15]
Though not necessarily on the same scale as Matthew Shepard’s murder, violent incidences against gays and lesbians occur frequently. Gay and lesbian people are often verbally abused, assaulted both physically and sexually, and threatened not just by peers and strangers, but also by family members.[16] One study of 192 gay men aged 14–21 found that approximately 1/3 reported being verbally assaulted by at least one family member when they came out and another 10% reported being physically assaulted.[17] Gay and lesbian youth are particularly prone to victimization. A nationwide study of over 9000 gay high school students, 24% of gay men reported being victimized at least 10 times per year because of their sexual orientation; 11% of homosexual women reported the same thing.[17] Victims often experience severe depression, a sense of helplessness, low self-esteem, and frequent suicidal thoughts.[18] Gay youth are two to four times more likely to be threatened with a deadly weapon at school and miss more days of school than their heterosexual peers. Further, they are two to seven times more likely to attempt suicide. These issues, the societal stigma around homosexuality and fear of bias-motivated attack, lead to gay men and women, especially teenagers, becoming more likely to abuse drugs such as marijuana and cocaine and alcohol, have unprotected sex with multiple sexual partners, find themselves in unwanted sexual situations, have body image and eating disorders, and be at higher risk for STDs and HIV/AIDS.[17]
The Act was supported by thirty-one state Attorneys General and over 210 national law enforcement, professional, education, civil rights, religious, and civic organizations, including the AFL-CIO, the American Medical Association, the American Psychological Association, and the NAACP.[19] A November 2001 poll indicated that 73% of Americans were in favor of hate-crime legislation covering sexual orientation.[20]
The LLEHCPA was introduced in substantially similar form in each Congress since the 105th Congress in 1999. The 2007 bill expanded on the earlier versions by including transgender provisions and making it explicit that the law should not be interpreted to restrict people's freedom of speech or association.[21]
Opposition[edit]
James Dobson, founder of the socially conservative lobbying group Focus on the Family, opposed the Act, arguing that it would effectively "muzzle people of faith who dare to express their moral and biblical concerns about homosexuality."[13] However, HR 1592 contains a "Rule of Construction" which specifically provides that "Nothing in this Act...shall be construed to prohibit any expressive conduct protected from legal prohibition by, or any activities protected by the free speech or free exercise clauses of, the First Amendment to the Constitution."[22]
Senator Jeff Sessions, among other Senators, was concerned that the bill would not protect all individuals equally.[23] Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina spoke against the bill, saying that it was unnecessary, that it violated the 14th Amendment, and that it would be a step closer to the prosecution of "thought crimes".[24][25] Four members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights wrote a letter stating their opposition to the bill, citing concerns of double jeopardy.[26]
Legislative progress[edit]
107th to 109th congress[edit]
The bill was first introduced into the 107 Congress's House of Representatives on April 3, 2001, by Rep. John Conyers and was referred to the Subcommittee on Crime. The bill died when it failed to advance in the committee.
It was reintroduced by Rep. Conyers in the 108th and 109th congresses (on April 22, 2004 and May 26, 2005, respectively). As previously, it died both times when it failed to advance in committee.
Similar legislation was introduced by Sen. Gordon H. Smith (R-OR) as an amendment to the Ronald W. Reagan National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2005 (S. 2400) on June 14, 2004. Though the amendment passed the U.S. Senate by a vote of 65-33,[27] the amendment was later removed by conference committee.
110th Congress[edit]
See also: 110th United States Congress
The bill was introduced for the fourth time into the House on March 30, 2007, by Conyers. The 2007 version of the bill added gender identity to the list of suspect classes for prosecution of hate crimes. The bill was again referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security.

 

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The bill passed the subcommittee by voice vote and the full House Judiciary Committee by a vote of 20–14. The bill then proceeded to the full House, where it was passed on May 3, 2007, with a vote of 237–180 with Representative Barney Frank, one of two openly gay members of the House at the time, presiding.[28]
The bill then proceeded to the U.S. Senate, where it was introduced by Senator Ted Kennedy and Senator Gordon Smith on April 12, 2007. It was referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee. The bill died when it failed to advance in the Senate committee.
On July 11, 2007, Kennedy attempted to introduce the bill again as an amendment to the Senate Defense Reauthorization bill (H.R. 1585). The Senate hate crime amendment had 44 cosponsors, including four Republicans. After Republicans staged a filibuster on a troop-withdrawal amendment to the defense bill, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid delayed the votes on the hate crime amendment and the defense bill until September.[29]
The bill passed the Senate on September 27, 2007, as an amendment to the Defense Reauthorization bill. The cloture vote was 60–39 in favor. The amendment was then approved by voice vote.[30] President Bush indicated he might veto the DoD authorization bill if it reached his desk with the hate crimes legislation attached.[31][32] Ultimately, the amendment was dropped by the Democratic leadership because of opposition from antiwar Democrats, conservative groups, and Bush.[33]
In late 2008, then-President-elect Barack Obama's website stated that one of the goals of his new administration would be to see the bill passed.[34]
111th Congress[edit]
See also: 111th United States Congress
House[edit]

 

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Conyers introduced the bill for the fifth time into the House on April 2, 2009. In his introductory speech, he claimed that many law enforcement groups, such as the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the National Sheriffs Association and 31 state Attorneys General support the bill[35] and that the impact hate violence has on communities justifies federal involvement.[36]
The bill was immediately referred to the full Judiciary Committee, where it passed by a vote of 15–12 on April 23, 2009.[37]
On April 28, 2009, Rep. Mike Honda (D-CA) claimed that if the bill were passed it may help prevent the murders of transgender Americans, such as the murder of Angie Zapata.[38] Conversely, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) claimed that the bill was an expansion of a category of "thought crimes" and compared the bill to the book Nineteen Eighty-Four.[39] That same day, the House Rules Committee allowed one hour and 20 minutes for debate.[40]
The bill then moved to the full House, for debate. During the debate, Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) claimed that the bill would help prevent murders such as those of spree killer Benjamin Nathaniel Smith and would take "an important step" towards a more just society.[41] After the vote, Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) claimed that equal protection regardless of status is a fundamental premise of the nation and thus the bill is unnecessary, and that, rather, it would prevent religious organizations from expressing their beliefs openly (although the bill only refers to violent actions, not speech.)[42]
The bill passed the House on April 29, 2009, by a vote of 249–175, with support from 231 Democrats and 18 Republicans, including Republican Main Street Partnership members Judy Biggert (IL), Mary Bono Mack (CA), Joseph Cao (LA), Mike Castle (DE), Charlie Dent (PA), Lincoln Diaz-Balart (FL), Mario Diaz-Balart (FL), Rodney Frelinghuysen (NJ), Jim Gerlach (PA), Mark Kirk (IL), Leonard Lance (NJ), Frank LoBiondo (NJ), Todd Russell Platts (PA), Dave Reichert (WA), and Greg Walden (OR) along with Bill Cassidy (LA), Mike Coffman (CO), and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (FL).[43]
On April 30, 2009, Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-KS) compared the bill to the novel Animal Farm and claimed it would harm free speech.[44] Rep. George Miller (D-CA) and Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD) both announced that they were unable to be present for the vote, but had they been present they would each have voted in favor.[45][46] Conversely, Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX) claimed federal law was already sufficient to prevent hate crimes and said that had he been present he would have voted against the bill.[47]
On October 8, 2009, the House passed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act as part of the conference report on Defense Authorization for fiscal year 2010.[48] The vote was 281-146, with support from 237 Democrats and 44 Republicans.[43]
Senate[edit]

 

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The bill again proceeded to the Senate, where it was again introduced by Kennedy on April 28, 2009.[49] The Senate version of the bill had 45 cosponsors as of July 8, 2009.[50]
On June 25, 2009, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the bill. Attorney General Eric Holder testified in support of the bill, the first time a sitting Attorney General has ever testified in favor of the bill.[51] During his testimony, Holder mentioned his previous testimony on a nearly identical bill to the senate in July 1998 (the Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 1998, S.1529), just months before Matthew Shepard was murdered.[52] According to CNN, Holder testified that, "more than 77,000 hate crime incidents were reported by the FBI between 1998 and 2007, or 'nearly one hate crime for every hour of every day over the span of a decade.'" Holder emphasized that one of his "highest personal priorities ... is to do everything I can to ensure this critical legislation finally becomes law."[53]
Reverend Mark Achtemeier of the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary, Janet Langhart, whose play was premiering at the United States Holocaust Museum at the time of the shooting earlier in the month and Michael Lieberman of the Anti-Defamation League also testified in favor of the bill. Gail Heriot of the United States Commission on Civil Rights and Brian Walsh of the Heritage Foundation testified in opposition to the bill.
The Matthew Shepard Act was adopted as an amendment to S. 1390 (the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010) by a 63-28 cloture vote on July 15, 2009.[54] At the request of Senator Jeff Sessions (an opponent of the Matthew Shepard Act), an amendment was added to the Senate version of the hate crimes legislation that would have allowed prosecutors to seek the death penalty for hate crime murders,[55] though the amendment was later removed in conference with the House.[56]
The bill won the support of five Republicans: Susan Collins (ME), Dick Lugar (IN), Lisa Murkowski (AK), Olympia Snowe (ME), and George Voinovich (OH).
Passage[edit]
See also: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010

 

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The bill passed the Senate when the Defense bill passed on July 23, 2009.[57] As originally passed, the House version of the defense bill did not include the hate crimes legislation, requiring the difference to be worked out in a Conference committee. On October 7, 2009, the Conference committee published the final version of the bill, which included the hate crimes amendment;[58] the conference report was then passed by the House on October 8, 2009.[59] On October 22, 2009, following a 64-35 cloture vote,[60][61] the conference report was passed by the Senate by a vote of 68-29.[62] The bill was signed into law on the afternoon of October 28, 2009 by President Barack Obama.[2]
Legislative History[edit]

Congress
Short title
Bill number
Date introduced
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# of cosponsors
Latest status
107th Congress Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2001 H.R. 1343 April 3, 2001 Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) 208 Died in the House Subcommittee on Crime
S. 625 March 27, 2001 Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) 50 Failed cloture motion 54-43
108th Congress Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2004 H.R. 4204 April 22, 2004 Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) 178 Died in the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security
S.Amdt. 3183 to S. 2400 June 14, 2004 Sen. Gordon H. Smith (R-OR) 4 Passed in the Senate (65-33) as an amendment to the Ronald W. Reagan National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2005 S. 2400
Removed from conference report
109th Congress Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2005 H.R. 2662 May 26, 2005 Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) 159 Died in the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security
S. 1145 May 26, 2005 Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) 45 Died in the Senate Judiciary Committee
110th Congress Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007 H.R. 1592 March 30, 2007 Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) 171 Passed the House (237–180)
S. 1105 April 12, 2007 Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) 44 Died in the Senate Judiciary Committee
111th Congress Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009 H.R. 1913 April 2, 2009 Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) 120 Passed the House (249–175) as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 H.R. 2647.
S. 909 April 28, 2009 Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) 45 Died in the Senate Judiciary Committee (after the Leahy version passed)
S.Amdt. 1511 to S. 1390 July 15, 2009 Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) 37 Passed in the Senate (63-28) as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010.[57] Signed into law October 28, 2009 by President Barack Obama.
Enforcement[edit]
In May 2011, a man in Arkansas pled guilty under the Act to running a car containing five Hispanic men off the road. As a result, he became the first person ever convicted under the Act. A second man involved in the same incident was later convicted under the Act; his appeal of that conviction was upheld on August 6, 2012.[63][64][65]
In August 2011, one man in New Mexico pled guilty to branding a swastika into the arm of a developmentally disabled man of Navajo descent. A second man entered a guilty plea to conspiracy to commit a federal hate crime. The two men were accused of branding the victim, shaving a swastika into his head, and writing the words "white power" and the acronym "KKK" on his body. A third man in June 2011, entered a guilty plea to conspiracy to commit a federal hate crime. All three men were charged under the Act in December 2010.[66]
On March 15, 2012, the Kentucky State Police assisted the FBI in arresting David Jenkins, Anthony Jenkins, Mable Jenkins, and Alexis Jenkins of Partridge, KY for the beating of Kevin Pennington during a late-night attack in April 2011 at Kingdom Come State Park,[67][68] near Cumberland. The push came from the gay-rights group Kentucky Equality Federation, whose president, Jordan Palmer, began lobbying the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky in August 2011[69] to prosecute after stating he had no confidence in the Harlan County Commonwealth's Attorney to act.[70] "I think the case's notoriety may have derived in large part from the Kentucky Equality Federation efforts," said Harvey, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky.[71] Mable Jenkins, and Alexis Jenkins plead guilty.[71]
Court challenges[edit]
The constitutionality of the law was challenged in a 2010 lawsuit filed by the Thomas More Law Center; the lawsuit was dismissed.[72]
William Hatch, who pleaded guilty to a hate crime in the New Mexico case, also contested the law on Constitutional grounds. The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals heard the case (U.S. v. Hatch) and upheld the conviction on June 3, 2013.[73]
See also[edit]

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External links[edit]
H.R. 1592, the House bill
S. 1105, the Senate bill
South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint's speech. Flash video on YouTube. July 16, 2009. 12 minutes.
Text of floor speeches by Senators Kennedy, Bayh, and Schumer introducing the bill in the Senate on April 12, 2007
Final form of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act

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Judy Shepard

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For other people named Judy Shepard, see Judy Shepard (disambiguation).

Judy Shepard
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Judy Shepard on June 13, 2009
 
Born
1952
Occupation
Board President – Matthew Shepard Foundation (1999–present)
Executive Director – Matthew Shepard Foundation (1999–2009)
 LGBT-rights activist
Religion
Episcopalian
Spouse(s)
Dennis Shepard
Children
Matthew Shepard (1976–1998),
 Logan Shepard (b. 1981)
Judy Shepard (née Peck; born 1952) is the mother of Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old student at University of Wyoming who was murdered in October 1998 in what became one of the most high-profiled cases highlighting hate-crimes against LGBT people. She and her husband are co-founders of the Matthew Shepard Foundation, and advocates for LGBT rights.

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  [hide] 1 Personal life
2 Activism
3 Awards and honors
4 Bibliography
5 See also
6 References
Personal life[edit]
Judy and her husband, Dennis Shepard, have lived in Casper, Wyoming (though they have also lived in Saudi Arabia) since 1976.[1] Judy is the mother of two sons, Matthew Wayne Shepard (1976–1998) and Logan Shepard (born 1981).[2][3]
Activism[edit]
Main articles: Matthew Shepard Act and Matthew Shepard Foundation
On the night of October 6, 1998, Judy's older son Matthew was beaten and pistol whipped in Laramie, Wyoming. Matthew Shepard died six days later at Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins, Colorado on October 12, 1998 at age 21. It was widely reported by mass media that it was due to his being gay. The incident became one of the defining cases of hate-crimes and was cited for passing hate-crime legislation. In response, Judy Shepard created the Matthew Shepard Foundation. The foundation's purpose is to advance "social justice, diversity awareness and education, and equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people".[1]
She is the founding president of the Foundation's Board of Directors, and served as the first executive director from 1999 to 2009. On March 20, 2007, the Matthew Shepard Act (H.R. 1592), a bill which would expand federal hate-crimes legislation to include sexual orientation, was introduced as federal bipartisan legislation in the U.S. Congress, sponsored by Democrat John Conyers with 171 co-sponsors. Judy and her husband Dennis were present at the introduction ceremony. That bill did not pass however, after then-President George W. Bush threatened to veto the bill if it passed.
As of 2009, she is still board president of the foundation, and as a result she travels across the United States speaking to different audiences. In 2009, she published a memoir, The Meaning of Matthew[4][5] about how her family dealt with his murder, the subsequent court cases, the media coverage, and their work to advance civil rights over the last decade.[1]

 

 Shepard (center), Louvon Harris (left), Betty Bryd Boatner (right) with President Barack Obama in 2009 to promote the Hate Crimes Prevention Act
In May 2009, Shepard met with President Barack Obama, where he promised her he would help pass the Matthew Shepard Act.[6] There was a controversy when the act was being debated in the House of Representatives, and while Judy Shepard was in the audience, Representative Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., called the allegation that the murder of Matthew Shepard was because of his homosexuality a hoax a statement which she later apologized for.[7]
On October 11, 2009, she addressed a rally for LGBT rights in the United States Capitol, at the National Equality March, saying "I'm here today because I lost my son to hate.... No one has the right to tell my son whether or not he can work anywhere. Whether or not he can live wherever he wants to live and whether or not he can be with the one person he loves -- no one has that right. We are all Americans. We are all equal Americans, gay, straight or whatever"[8] On the Saturday night before, President Obama addressed the Human Rights Campaign in the Capitol and mentioned his promise to Judy Shepard in the Oval Office, in his reassertion of his commitment to pass legislation important to the LGBT community.[9]
In 2009, she authored the book The Meaning of Matthew: My Son's Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed about the incident and its repercussions.
On October 22, 2009, the United States Congress passed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, and on October 28, 2009, President Obama signed the legislation into law.
Awards and honors[edit]
In 2009, Judy Shepard received the Black Tie Dinner Elizabeth Birch Equality Award. The award was presented to Ms. Shepard by Elizabeth Birch, herself, on October 3, 2009 in Dallas, Texas. The Birch Award is presented each year at the Black Tie Dinner to someone who has made a significant impact nationally on the fight for LGBT equality, and is named in honor of former Human Rights Campaign Executive Director Elizabeth Birch.[10]
On Monday, February 15, 2010; Heritage of Pride, the producers of the annual LGBT Pride March down 5th Avenue in New York City announced that Judy Shepard has been selected as a Grand Marshal for the March along with Lt. Dan Choi previously announced.[11][12] [13][14]
Bibliography[edit]
Shepard, Judy (2009), The Meaning of Matthew: My Son's Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed, Hudson Street Press. ISBN 1-59463-057-7
See also[edit]

Portal icon Biography portal
Portal icon LGBT portal
Portal icon United States portal
Portal icon Wyoming portal
List of civil rights leaders
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c Judy Shepard Bio, Matthew Shepard Foundation, accessed October 12, 2009
2.Jump up ^ At his brother’s ‘Place’: Logan Shepard, brother of Matthew, debuts blog and goes to work for family’s foundation, Washington Blade, Katherine Volin, April 11, 2008[dead link]
3.Jump up ^ Matthew Shepard FAQ, Matthew Shepard Foundation
4.Jump up ^ Matthew Shepard's Murder Made His Mom An Activist, Lansing State Journal, Steve Rothaus, October 11, 2009[dead link]
5.Jump up ^ Conan, Neal (September 8, 2009). "Judy Shepard And 'The Meaning Of Matthew'". National Public Radio. Retrieved April 2, 2010.
6.Jump up ^ Judy Shepard Meets With Obama, The Advocate, May 20, 2009[dead link]
7.Jump up ^ Judy Shepard rejects Rep. Foxx's apology, MSNBC, May 1, 2009
8.Jump up ^ 'Obama, I know you are listening': Gay rights activists march in D.C., CNN, October 12, 2009
9.Jump up ^ The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later Premiere, TimeOut Chicago, October 13, 2009
10.Jump up ^ "'Newsom will keynote Black Tie Dinner Saturday". Dallas Voice. October 1, 2009.
11.Jump up ^ Broverman, Neal (February 10, 2010). "'Gay N.Y. Heats Dan Choi". The Advocate.
12.Jump up ^ Langfelder, Natasia (February 10, 2010). "'Lt. Dan Choi to be Grand Marshall at Pride Parade". LEZGET Real.
13.Jump up ^ "Judy Shepard to Make Final Official Pride Appearance & Serve as Grand Marshal of the 41st Annual NYC LGBT Pride March" (pdf). Heritage of Pride / NYC Pride. February 15, 2010.
14.Jump up ^ Michaane, Maurice (February 15, 2010). "'QNY Exclusive: Judy Shepard to make final official pride appearance & serve as grand marshal of the 41st annual NYC LGBT Pride March". Queer New York.

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Matthew Shepard Foundation

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Matthew Shepard Foundation
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Formation
1998
Headquarters
Casper, Wyoming
Executive Director
Jason Marsden
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Website
http://www.matthewshepard.org/
 
The Matthew Shepard Foundation is an LGBT rights group founded in December 1998 by Dennis and Judy Shepard in memory of their 21-year-old son, Matthew, who was murdered in Wyoming in October 1998.[1]

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  [hide] 1 The Matthew Shepard Point Scholarship
2 See also
3 References
4 Further reading
5 External links
The Matthew Shepard Point Scholarship[edit]
The Matthew Shepard Foundation and The Point Foundation have partnered to create the Matthew Shepard Point Scholarship, naming three scholars each year to receive annual college scholarships of $10,000 or more. In addition to the monetary award, the scholars become members of the Matthew Shepard Foundation's Youth Advisory Council. Selection of recipients is based on their "academic achievements, as well as a current involvement with helping advance the LGBT community, as well as a demonstrated commitment to helping advance equality in the future."[2]
See also[edit]

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Cultural depictions of Matthew Shepard
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Embrace! A Benefit Concert for the Matthew Shepard Foundation (BroadwayWorld.com)
2.Jump up ^ Foundations partner on LGBT scholarships - Queer Lesbian Gay News - Gay.com
Further reading[edit]
Chronological order of publication (oldest first)
Loffreda, Beth (2000). Losing Matt Shepard: life and politics in the aftermath of anti-gay murder. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-11859-7.
Fondakowski, Leigh; Kaufman, Moises (2001). The Laramie project. New York: Vintage Books. ISBN 0-375-72719-1.
Garceau, Dee; Basso, Matthew; McCall, Laura (2001). Across the Great Divide: cultures of manhood in the American West. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-92471-5.
Swigonski, Mary E. ;Mama, Robin S.;Ward, Kelly (2001). From Hate Crimes to Human Rights: A Tribute to Matthew Shepard. New York: Routledge. ISBN 1-56023-256-0.
Patrick Hinds; Romaine Patterson (2005). The Whole World Was Watching: Living in the Light of Matthew Shepard. Advocate Books. ISBN 1-55583-901-0.
External links[edit]
Matthew Shepard Foundation website
Matthew's Place

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The Laramie Project

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This article is about the play. For the film based on the play, see The Laramie Project (film).

The Laramie Project
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Written by
Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project
Characters
Residents of Laramie and members of the Tectonic Theater Project
Date premiered
February, 2000
Place premiered
Ricketson Theatre, Denver Laramie,Wyoming
Original language
English
Subject
Homophobia, Violence, Discrimination
Genre
Documentary theatre
Setting
Laramie, Wyoming
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Vigil scene from The Laramie Project

 Scene from a 2008 performance depicting the candlelight vigils held for Matthew Shepard
Scene from The Laramie Project

 Scene from 2005 performance depicting Westboro Baptist Church protestors
The Laramie Project is a play by Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project (specifically, Leigh Fondakowski, Stephen Belber, Greg Pierotti, Barbara Pitts, Stephen Wangh, Amanda Gronich, Sara Lambert, John McAdams, Maude Mitchell, Andy Paris, and Kelli Simpkins) about the reaction to the 1998 murder of University of Wyoming gay student Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming.[1] The murder was denounced as a hate crime and brought attention to the lack of hate crimes laws in various states, including Wyoming.[2]
The play draws on hundreds of interviews conducted by the theatre company with inhabitants of the town, company members' own journal entries, and published news reports. It is divided into three acts, and eight actors portray more than sixty characters in a series of short scenes.[3]

Contents
  [hide] 1 Performances
2 Actors
3 Combatting homophobia
4 Film
5 Return to Laramie
6 See also
7 References
8 External links
Performances[edit]
The Laramie Project premiered at The Ricketson Theatre by the Denver Center Theatre Company (Denver) (part of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts) in February 2000[4] and was then performed in the Union Square Theatre in New York City[5] before a November 2002 performance in Laramie, Wyoming.[6] The play has also been performed by high schools, colleges, and community theaters across the country,[7] as well as professional playhouses in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.[8]
Many of the performances in the United States have been picketed by representatives of Fred Phelps, who are portrayed in the play picketing Matthew Shepard's funeral as they did in real life.[9][10] Though the play has been produced worldwide, it still generates controversy.[11][12] The holder of the royalties/rights to The Laramie Project is Dramatists Play Service, Inc.[13] The Matthew Shepard Foundation provides help and resource for those wishing to produce The Laramie Project or The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later. The Foundation's Laramie Project Specialist can help with media, historical context, creative consulting, and other resources and services at no charge to non-profit theatres and educational and religious institutions. The Foundation can also help those who wish to engage their communities in a conversation about how to Erase Hate in the world.
Actors[edit]
Notable actors/actresses who have performed in The Laramie Project include:

Actor/Actress
Dramatic Appearance
Van Hansis As the World Turns
Mary Beth Peil The Good Wife
Jenna Ushkowitz Glee
Laura Linney Love Actually
James Murtaugh Two Weeks
Joshua Jackson Fringe
Stephanie March Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Peter Hermann Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Peter Fonda The Wild Angels
Camryn Manheim The Practice
Cyndi Lauper Mad About You
Clea DuVall 21 Grams
Christina Ricci The Addams Family
Judith Light Ugly Betty
Terry Kinney The Mentalist
Frances Sternhagen The Closer
Brian Kerwin One Life to Live
Robert Desiderio One Life to Live
Chad Allen Save Me
Stockard Channing The West Wing
Darren Criss Glee
Andrew Garfield The Social Network
Combatting homophobia[edit]

Group preparing to block protestors

 Group preparing to block from view members of the Westboro Baptist Church protesting a production at Daemen College
The Laramie Project is often used as a method to teach about prejudice and tolerance in personal, social, and health education and citizenship in schools, and it has also been used in the UK as a General Certificate of Secondary Education text for English literature.
The play has also inspired grassroots efforts to combat homophobia. After seeing the play, New Jersey resident Dean Walton was inspired to donate more than 500 books and other media to the University of Wyoming's Rainbow Resource Center. Today, that campus office houses the largest LGBT library in the state of Wyoming.
Film[edit]
As a result of the play's success, HBO commissioned a 2002 film of The Laramie Project, also written and directed by Kaufman.
Return to Laramie[edit]
Ten years after Shepard's murder, members of Tectonic Theater Project returned to Laramie to conduct follow-up interviews with residents featured in the play. Those interviews were turned into a companion piece, entitled The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later. The play debuted as a reading at nearly 150 theatres across the US and internationally on October 12, 2009 - the 11th anniversary of Matthew Shepard's death, most whose opening was linked by webcam to New York City where Judy Shepard and the play's producers and writers gave an opening speech, followed by an address by Glenn Close.[14]
See also[edit]

Portal icon LGBT portal
Violence against LGBT people
Matthew Shepard Foundation
Cultural depictions of Matthew Shepard
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Tectonic Theater Project
2.Jump up ^ "Murder charges planned in beating death of gay student". CNN. Archived from the original on 2007-10-11. Retrieved 2007-11-20.
3.Jump up ^ The Laramie Project, A CurtainUp Review
4.Jump up ^ Laramie Theater Scope: The Laramie Project
5.Jump up ^ THEATER REVIEW; A Brutal Act Alters a Town
6.Jump up ^ Moises Kaufman's 'The Laramie Project'
7.Jump up ^ Jennifer Fenn Lefferts (November 1, 2007). "Parents, others protest 'Laramie' at high school". The Boston Globe.
8.Jump up ^ THE LARAMIE PROJECT
9.Jump up ^ Westboro Baptist Church announces first anti-homosexuality picket in Britain
10.Jump up ^ About Fred Phelps
11.Jump up ^ The Laramie Project Controversy
12.Jump up ^ http://thefastertimes.com/theatertalk/2009/11/12/this-las-vegas-judge-rules/ | A report about the parents who tried to block a production of The Laramie Project in Las Vegas in 2009.
13.Jump up ^ The Laramie Project
14.Jump up ^ Remembering a Cruel Murder: Laramie Revisited
External links[edit]
The Tectonic Theater Project's website
Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
The University of Wyoming Rainbow Resource Center
Interview with Leigh Fondakowski by Peter Shea
Laramie Project Support through the Matthew Shepard Foundation

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The Laramie Project (film)

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The Laramie Project
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Directed by
Moisés Kaufman
Produced by
Declan Baldwin
Screenplay by
Moisés Kaufman
Based on
The Laramie Project
 by Moisés Kaufman
Tectonic Theater Project
Starring
Nestor Carbonell
Christina Ricci
Dylan Baker
Terry Kinney
 Lou Ann Wright
Music by
Peter Golub
Cinematography
Terry Stacey
Editing by
Brian A. Kates
Studio
Good Machine
Distributed by
Home Box Office (HBO)
Release date(s)
January 10, 2002 (Sundance)
March 9, 2002
 
Running time
97 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
The Laramie Project is a 2002 drama film written and directed by Moisés Kaufman. Based on the play of the same name, the film tells the story of the aftermath of the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming. It premiered at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival and was first broadcast on HBO in March 2002.

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  [hide] 1 Cast
2 Reception
3 Awards
4 See also
5 Notes
6 External links
Cast[edit]
Nestor Carbonell as Moisés Kaufman
Christina Ricci as Romaine Patterson
Dylan Baker as Rulon Stacey
Terry Kinney as Dennis Shepard
Lou Ann Wright as Judy Shepard
Mark Webber as Aaron McKinney
Laura Linney as Sherry Johnson
Peter Fonda as Dr. Cantway
Jeremy Davies as Jedadiah Schultz
Camryn Manheim as Rebecca Hillicker
Andy Paris as Stephen Belber
Grant Varjas as Greg Pierotti
Kelli Simpkins as Leigh Fondakowski
Clea DuVall as Amanda Gronich
James Murtaugh as Reverend Fred Phelps
Frances Sternhagen as Marge Murray
Michael Emerson as Reverend
Summer Phoenix as Jen Malmskog
Margo Martindale as Trish Steger
Steve Buscemi as Doc O'Conner
Greg Pierotti as Jon Peacock
Janeane Garofalo as Catherine Connolly
John McAdams as Jonas Slonaker
Joshua Jackson as Matt Galloway
Ben Foster as Aaron Kreifels
Amy Madigan as Officer Reggie Flutty
Tom Bower as Father Roger Schmit
Clancy Brown as Rob Debree
Kathleen Chalfant as Female Rancher
Bill Irwin as Harry Woods
Lois Smith as Lucy Thompson
Reception[edit]
Matt Roush of TV Guide praised the film for "elevating Shepard's murder to a higher crossroads of journalism and theatricality." Roush singled out the film's cast, and its "original" and "unique investigation", likening its focus on Nestor Carbonell's Kaufman to Truman Capote making himself the star of In Cold Blood. Roush also noted the film's emotional range and its examination of homophobia, saying that it could "enlighten" viewers.[1]
Awards[edit]
Year Award Category Recipient
2002 Berlin International Film Festival First Movie Award — Special Mention Moisés Kaufman
Humanitas Prize 90 Minute or Longer Network Category Moisés Kaufman
L.A. Outfest Special Programming Committee Award for Outstanding Artistic Achievement Moisés Kaufman
National Board of Review, USA NBR Award, Best Film Made for Cable TV 
2003 GLAAD Media Awards Outstanding Television Movie 
See also[edit]
The Matthew Shepard Story
Notes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Matt Roush. "The Lost Boy: Revisiting the Shepard Tragedy" TV Guide; March 9, 2002
External links[edit]
 Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: The Laramie Project (film)
Official website
The Laramie Project at the Internet Movie Database
The Laramie Project at AllRovi
 

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The Matthew Shepard Story

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The Matthew Shepard Story
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Directed by
Roger Spottiswoode
Produced by
Clara George
Written by
John Wierick
Jacob Krueger
Starring
Shane Meier
Stockard Channing
Sam Waterston
Music by
Jeff Danna
 Mychael Danna
Cinematography
John S. Bartley
Editing by
Dominique Fortin
Release date(s)
2001
Country
Canada, USA
Language
English
The Matthew Shepard Story is a 2002 award-winning Canadian-American television film by director Roger Spottiswoode based on the true story of Matthew Shepard, a 21-years-old gay youth who was murdered in 1998, victim of an anti-gay hate crime. The film scenario written by John Wierick and Jacob Krueger, it starred Shane Meier as Matthew and Stockard Channing as Judy and Sam Waterston as Dennis.
Producers were Alliance Atlantis Communications, Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit (CPTC) with the assistance of/with the participation of Canadian Television (CTV) and Cosmic Entertainment. The premiere was on 16 March 2002 on NBC, the same day HBO showed another Matthew Shepard film entitled The Laramie Project. The Matthew Shepard Story was also shown on CTV, with language versions show in many countries.

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  [hide] 1 Synopsis
2 Cast
3 Awards and nominations
4 Soundtrack
5 See also
6 References
7 External links
Synopsis[edit]
In 1998, a young gay man by the name of Matthew Shepard was robbed, viciously beaten and left tied to a fence to die. Although he was soon found by the police and hospitalized, he soon expired. This film recounts the events after the conviction of the two men responsible for this hate motivated murder.
Matthew's parents, though satisfied by the conviction, are finding the sentencing phase of the trial more difficult. The parents initially want to request the death penalty for their son's murderers, but the mother, Judy Shepard (Stockard Channing), starts to reconsider. As they struggle with their decision, they decide to reexamine the life of their son and rediscover his personality, his struggle to accept his homosexuality as a natural part of his being and above all, his generous humanity to others. All of this leads the parents to appeal to the court the way their son would have wanted, not out of vengeance but to represent best of what their son was and the tragedy of his loss.
Cast[edit]
Stockard Channing as Judy Shepard
Shane Meier as Matthew Shepard
Wendy Crewson as Sarah
Sam Waterston as Dennis Shepard
Kristen Thomson as Romaine Patterson
Joseph Ziegler as Cal
Yani Gellman as Pablo
Damien Atkins as Donny
Philip Eddolls as Aaron McKinney (as Philip Edolls)
Paul Robbins as Russell Henderson
Judah Katz as Defense Attorney
Drew Nelson as Lance
Nazneen Contractor as Shima
Makyla Smith as Casey
Lindsay Murrell as Matthew's Date
James Bearden as Protester
B.J. McLellan as Logan Shepard (age 17)
David Broadhurst as Logan Shepard (age 12)
Shawna Lori Burnett as Female Officer
John Henry Canavan as Painter
Bruce Beaton as Cowboy
Brian Frank as Neighbour
Sadie LeBlanc as Girlfriend
Jim Codrington as Health Food Store Manager
Dorothy Gordon as Elderly Woman
Susan Chuang as Female News Anchor
Richard Blackburn as Judge
Ray Kahnert as Minister
Patricia Carroll Brown as Angry Mourner
Dinah Watts as Cal's Secretary
Eduardo Gómez as Gomez (as Eduardo Gomez)
Scott McLaren as Drug Dealer
Derek Gilroy as Mike
Scott Wickware as Bartender
Awards and nominations[edit]
The film went on to win many awards and nominated for others:[1]
Awards"Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role" for Shane Meier as Matthew Shepard at the 2003 Los Angeles Outfest
Primetime Emmy Award in 2002 for "Best Supporting Actress in a TV Movie or Miniseries" for Stockard Channing for her role as Judy Shepard
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries at the 2003 Screen Actors Guild Awards for Stockard Channing.
Sam Waterston won a Gemini Award for "Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series".
The writers John Wierick and Jacob Krueger won the Paul Selvin Honorary Award given by Writers Guild of America
NominationsOutstanding Television Movie at the 2003 GLAAD Media Awards
"Best Writing in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series" for writers Jacob Krueger and John Wierick at the 2003 Gemini Awards
"Best Performance by an Actress in a Miniseries or a Motion Picture Made for Television" for Stockard Channing at the 2003 Satellite Awards
Soundtrack[edit]
The film also contains soundtrack album with the following:
"Matthew Songs" - Written, performed and produced by Jim Huff (Coehill Entertainment)
"El Burkan" - Written by Hossam Ramzy, published by JW Media Music Ltd (Morning Music Limited)
"I Keep Holdin' On" - Written by T. Leonard and A. Lerman, performed by Fathead
"Lonesome World" - Written and performed by Paul Kass, published by Ocean Ridge Music (Parry Music Library)
"Good Vibration" - Written by Mladen Borosak and Tom Barlow, performed by Twigg
"Naked in the Water" - Written and performed by Michaela Foster Marsh (Kavanaugh Music)
"Shine" - Written Rob Garnder, Kadru Gardner and Mike Thibeau, performed by Electrostatic (Courtesy of Electrostatic Music by arrangement with PEN Music Group, Inc)
"I Want You to Fall" - Written and performed by Monica Schroeder (Night Sky Records)
"Get You Some" - Written by Robert J. Walsh, Ron Chick, Dennis Winslow (FirstCom Music, Inc)
"Edge of a Dream" - Written by Billy Livesay and David Graham, performed by Billy Livesay
"Who'll Hold On" - Written and performed by Adam Daniel, published by APG Music and Ash Peipers Music Publishing (APG Music)
"American Triangle" - Written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin, performed by Elton John, published by WB Music Corp (Happenstance Limited and Wretched Music, courtesy of Universal Music)
"What Matters" - Written and performed by Randi Driscoll, published by Swim Swam Swum Music (Dramatique Records)
See also[edit]
Cultural depictions of Matthew Shepard
The Laramie Project
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ IMDb: The Matthew Shepard Story - Awards and nominations
External links[edit]
The Matthew Shepard Story at the Internet Movie Database
 

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Scarecrow (Melissa Etheridge song)

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"Scarecrow"

Single by Melissa Etheridge

from the album Breakdown

Released
1999
Format
CD single
Recorded
Sunset Sound
Genre
Rock
Length
5:21
Label
Island
Writer(s)
Melissa Etheridge
Producer
Melissa Etheridge
John Shanks
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"Angels Would Fall"
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"Scarecrow" is a single from Melissa Etheridge's 1999 album, Breakdown.

Contents
  [hide] 1 Content
2 Background
3 Charts
4 Credits and personnel
5 Literature
6 References
7 External links
Content[edit]
This ballad tells the story of the kidnapping, torture, and homicide of 21-year-old University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard, motivated by anti-gay sentiment.[1] The image of a scarecrow was chosen because the bicyclist who found Matthew Shepard, tied to a fence, first thought that he was a scarecrow. The song criticizes hypocritical and deprecatory attitudes towards gay people in media and society.
Background[edit]
Etheridge was actually supposed to write a theme song for the US women's soccer team when the news about Matthew Shepard reached the headlines. In her autobiography The Truth Is... she tells that it was "Like somebody just dropped a huge brick in her kitchen" as she realized that being a big gay rock star did not help her changing the world. This led her to supporting some of her friends including Ellen DeGeneres who organized a trip to the Denver hospital. Etheridge also states that Shepherd's death made her especially sad since he looked like a gay friend of hers in high school which made her "cry uncontrollably".
Charts[edit]
This single did not chart in any country.
Credits and personnel[edit]
vocals, acoustic, fuzz guitar by Melissa Etheridge
guitars by John Shanks
Bass by Mark Browne
keyboards by Patrick Warren
drums and Shaker by Kenny Aronoff
Audio mixing (recorded music)Mixed by Chris Lord-Alge
Engineer - Neal Avron
Assistant engineer - Geoff Walcha
Literature[edit]
Melissa Etheridge and Laura Morton: The truth is...', Random House 2002
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ ABC News-New Details Emerge in Matthew Shepard Murder
External links[edit]
Animated interpretation of "Scarecrow" by Karen J. Siugzda
Full lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

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 Brave and Crazy·
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Greatest Hits: The Road Less Traveled
 
 
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A New Thought For Christmas
 
 
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"Bring Me Some Water"·
 "Like the Way I Do"·
 "No Souvenirs"·
 "I'm the Only One"·
 "Come to My Window"·
 "Angels Would Fall"·
 "Scarecrow"·
 "I Need to Wake Up"·
 "Message to Myself"·
 Fearless Love
 
 
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"Cry Baby"/"Piece of My Heart" (with Joss Stone)·
 "Just Stand Up!"·
 "Sing"
 
 
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Cultural depictions of Matthew Shepard

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Cultural depictions of Matthew Shepard lists notable plays, films, novels, songs and other works created from the 1998 Matthew Shepard murder, investigation and resulting interest the case brought to hate crime issues. The best known is the stage play The Laramie Project, which was adapted into an HBO movie of the same name. Matthew Wayne Shepard was an openly gay university student who was brutally attacked near Laramie, Wyoming in October 1998 and left for dead by his attackers. Shepard later died from intracerebral hemorrhage and hypothermia. The incident was a major news story and this case brought national attention to hate crime legislation at the state and federal levels. His two assailants, Russell Arthur Henderson and Aaron James McKinney, were convicted of the crime and imprisoned. Henderson is serving two consecutive life sentences and McKinney is serving the same but without the possibility of parole.[1]
People in the entertainment industry expressed outrage and responded in various ways to the attack. Ellen DeGeneres hosted Shepard's memorial services in Washington, D.C. Three narrative films were made about the Shepard story: The Laramie Project (based on the play of the same name), The Matthew Shepard Story and Anatomy of a Hate Crime. The Laramie Project and The Matthew Shepard Story both won numerous awards. The documentary film Laramie Inside Out focuses on the murder's effect on the Laramie community in the aftermath of the murder.

Contents
  [hide] 1 Stage play 1.1 The Laramie Project (2000)
2 Films 2.1 The Laramie Project (2002)
2.2 The Matthew Shepard Story (2002)
2.3 Documentaries 2.3.1 Dear Jesse (1998)
2.3.2 Laramie Inside Out (2004)
2.3.3 Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine (2012)

3 Television
4 Poems 4.1 Blood & Tears: Poems for Matthew Shepard (1999)
4.2 "Dive" (2004)
5 Songs
6 Albums 6.1 Lullaby (2002)
7 Books 7.1 The Meaning of Matthew: My Son's Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed (2010)
8 See also
9 References
10 Further reading
11 External links
Stage play[edit]
The Laramie Project (2000)[edit]
Main article: The Laramie Project

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The Laramie Project is a play by Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project about the reaction to the murder of Shepard. The play draws on hundreds of interviews conducted by the theatre company with inhabitants of the town, company members' own journal entries and published news reports.
It premiered at The Ricketson Theatre by the Denver Center Theatre Company (Denver) (part of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts) in February 2000and was then performed in the Union Square Theater in New York City before a November 2002 performance in Laramie, Wyoming. The play has also been performed by high schools, colleges, and community theaters across the country, as well as professional playhouses in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.[2]

Films[edit]
The Laramie Project (2002)[edit]
Main article: The Laramie Project (film)

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The Laramie Project is a 2002 drama film written and directed by Moisés Kaufman, and based on his own play of the same name mentioned above. The film feature an all-star cast. It premiered at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival and was first broadcast on HBO on March 9, 2002. The film was praised by TV Guide's Matt Roush for its emotional range, its examination of homophobia, and the unique investigation at its center, saying that viewers would be "enlightened" by it.[3]

The Matthew Shepard Story (2002)[edit]
Main article: The Matthew Shepard Story

The-matthew-shepard-story-film.jpg

The Matthew Shepard Story is a television film about the trial of the killers of Matthew Shepard. It premiered on NBC on March 9, 2002, the same night as HBO's The Laramie Project. It starred Shane Meier as Matthew Shepard, and depicting his parents were Sam Waterston as Dennis Shepard and Stockard Channing as Judy Shepard. The film won a Primetime Emmy Award in 2002 in the category of Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for Stockard Channing's performance as Judy Shepard. The film's cast also includes Kristen Thomson, Joseph Ziegler, Makyla Smith, Damien Atkins, and Wendy Crewson. The ending featured Elton John's song about Shepard, "American Triangle", from his album Songs from the West Coast.
The film seeks to illuminate the decisions Judy and Dennis Shepard had to make as to whether the death penalty should be sought for their son's killer. Throughout the movie there are several flashbacks of Matthew's life. It also shows the experiences and hardships Matthew endured throughout his life from junior high through college, including his first kiss, his first boyfriend and a rape scene.
Matt Roush of TV Guide criticized the film as unoriginal, and NBC for scheduling it on the same night as HBO's The Laramie Project, which Roush felt was the far superior effort. Roush opined that although The Matthew Shepard Story had some merit, and that some might even be moved by it, its decision to open with a depiction of Shepard's murder was "grotesque", and that overall, it did not possess the depth of Project.[3]
Documentaries[edit]
Dear Jesse (1998)[edit]
Dear Jesse is a 1998 documentary film about the U.S. Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC). It was released theatrically by Cowboy Pictures and on DVD by Sovereign Entertainment in 2007. Written and directed by Tim Kirkman, the film won numerous awards and was nominated for the Emmy Award for writing (nonfiction feature film) in 2000 after airing on the HBO/Cinemax "Reel Life" series. An interview with Matthew Shepard appears as a postscript in the first-person narrative at a political rally at Catawba College in Salisbury, NC, a small liberal arts school Shepard attended briefly in 1996.
Laramie Inside Out (2004)[edit]
Laramie Inside Out is a 2004 documentary that explores the repercussions of Matthew Shepard's murder on the town of Laramie, Wyoming in the year following his death. Filmmaker Beverly Seckinger, who grew up in Laramie, was compelled to return to her hometown to see how this event had altered the site of her own closeted adolescence. Along the way she meets "God-hates-fags" Westboro Baptist Church Reverend Fred Phelps, who condemns Shepard and all homosexuals to a merciless eternity in hell. But Seckinger meets many more—students, teachers, parents, and clergy—wrestling with painful complexities, speaking out and taking action.
Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine (2012)[edit]
Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine is a 2012 documentary directed by Michele Jouse. The film interviews the people who knew Shepard personally. It will have its world premiere at the 36th Mill Valley Film Festival on October 4, 2013.
Television[edit]
In the episode "A Private Life" of the HBO television series Six Feet Under, a gay man is brutally murdered in a way that mirrors Matthew Shepard's death.
Titus, a dark sitcom from Fox, had Christopher Titus mentioning the death of Shepard in the season three episode "Tommy`s Not Gay". He was dealing with Tommy, whose father was beaten by because of his homosexuality.
Shepard's manner of death is mentioned in United States of Tara, when Marshall is cautioned about his relationship with another character.
The Matthew Shepard incident and the subsequent introduction of the Matthew Shepard Act inspired a story arc which spanned several episodes in the first season of The West Wing.[4]
Poems[edit]
Blood & Tears: Poems for Matthew Shepard (1999)[edit]
An anthology of poemteeds by seventy five poets in tribute to Matthew Shepard. The poets include John Ashbery, W. S. Merwin, and Harold Norse: Scott M. Gibson (1999). Blood & Tears: Poems for Matthew Shepard. New York, N.Y: Painted Leaf Press. ISBN 1-891305-15-8.
"Dive" (2004)[edit]
Spoken word poet Andrea Gibson recorded her poem "Dive" about Matthew Shepard on her 2004 album Swarm.
Songs[edit]
"The Fence (Matthew Shepard's Song)" (2010)
Peter Katz wrote this song and it's featured on his 2010 album First of the Last to Know. In concert he performs it without a microphone usually in the middle of the audience.
"Above the Clouds" (2005)
Cyndi Lauper co-wrote her song "Above the Clouds" with Jeff Beck for her 2005 album The Body Acoustic in tribute to Matthew Shepard. Lauper's True Colors Tour 2007 for Human Rights provided information to fans, and a purple wristbands with the slogan "Erase Hate" from The Matthew Shepard Foundation.[5] A dollar from every ticket sold was earmarked for the Human Rights Campaign, which advocates equal rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.[6]
"American Triangle" (2001)
Elton John and Bernie Taupin wrote the song American Triangle which appeared on the 2001 album Songs from the West Coast with Rufus Wainwright on backing vocals. The song is dedicated to the memory of Matthew Shepard.
"And Sadness Will Sear" (2006)
Trivium recorded their song "And Sadness Will Sear" on their 2006 album The Crusade.[7]
"The Ballad of Matthew Shepard" (2006)
Brian Houston recorded his song "The Ballad of Matthew Shepard" on his 2006 album Sugar Queen.
"Cheyenne" (2001)
Good Riddance recorded the song "Cheyenne" on their 2001 album Symptoms of a Leveling Spirit.
"Did You Just Say 'Faggot'?" (2005)
Dangers recorded the song "Did You Just Say “Faggot”?" on their 2005 Self-Titled EP.
"Fear and Loathing in Laramie" (2003)
Protest the Hero recorded their song "Fear and Loathing in Laramie" on their 2003 album A Calculated Use of Sound.
"For Matthew Shepard" (2006)
Dorianne Laux wrote a poem "For Matthew Shepard" in her 2006 book Facts about the Moon.
"God Loves Everyone" (2002)
Ron Sexsmith wrote and performed the song "God Loves Everyone" on his 2002 album Cobblestone Runway. Reviewer Adrien Begrand said that "God Loves Everyone", "inspired by the brutal murder of gay Wyoming student Matthew Shepard, is a simple, acoustic song that is a wrenching plea for tolerance that sounds especially poignant these days." [8]
"Hail" (2003)
Hamell on Trial recorded the song "Hail" on his 2003 album Tough Love.
"Hinterland" (2006)
The Radiators From Space recorded their song "Hinterland" on their 2006 album Trouble Pilgrim
"Incinerate" (2006)
Elysia recorded their song "Incinerate" for their 2006 album Masochist.
"Into the Sun" (2000)
Jann Arden recorded the song "Into the Sun," listing Shepard among "decent men" who had been killed, for her 2000 album Blood Red Cherry. It was also released as a single. The album and single were charted hits in Canada.
"Jesus Is On The Wire" (2004)
Peter, Paul and Mary recorded the Thea Hopkins' song "Jesus Is On The Wire" for their 2004 album In These Times. The Matthew Shepard story-song is described by Peter, Paul and Mary as "... one of the most important songs we have sung in recent years."
"Laramie" (2001)
Amy Ray recorded her song "Laramie" on her 2001 album Stag about Shepard.
"Laramie" (2003)
Massachusetts hardcore punk band The Suicide File recorded their song "Laramie" on their 2003 album Twilight.
"Matthew" (2004)
Janis Ian wrote and performed the song 'Matthew' - about Matthew Shepard - for her 2004 album Billie's Bones.
"M. Shepard" (2004)
The New Brunswick, New Jersey post-hardcore band Thursday wrote and recorded a song about The Laramie Project production titled "M. Shepard" for their 2004 album War All the Time.
"Merman" (1998)
Tori Amos dedicated her song "Merman" to Shepard throughout her '98 tour.
"Poster Child" (2008)
A balladeer wrote and recorded the song "Poster Child", which appeared on their second album Where Are You, Bambi Woods?. The song and its impressive videoclip is a tribute to Matthew as well an indictment to hate crime.
"Sacrifice" (2001)
Best Revenge recorded the song "Sacrifice" on their 2001 album Starts With You.
"Scarecrow" (1999)
In 1999, Melissa Etheridge released the song "Scarecrow" on the album Breakdown. This ballad uses the image of a scarecrow because the bicyclist who found Shepard's body first thought that it was scarecrow lying in the fields. In her autobiography The Truth Is... she said that she and some of her friends, including Ellen DeGeneres organized a trip to the Denver hospital. Etheridge said that Shepherd's death made her especially sad since he looked like a gay friend of hers in high school which made her "cry uncontrollably."
"Scarecrow" (2002)
Kristian Hoffman wrote the song "Scarecrow" and performs it with Rufus Wainwright on the 2002 album &. The CD liner notes describe the song as evoking "the empty plains of Wyoming, the scene of the death of its subject, Matthew Shepard."
"Scarecrow" (2010)
American hardcore band, Stick To Your Guns recorded "Scarecrow" for their 2010 album, The Hope Division
"Sounds" (2002)
Performed by Suzzy & Maggie Roche, their song "'Sounds" appeared on their 2002 album Zero Church. The liner notes to the CD say that the lyrics to "Sounds" were written by the poet Karen Bashkirew in response to Matthew Shepard's murder.
"That Ain't Right" (2003)
Non-Prophets recorded "That Ain't Right", a song by Sage Francis, on their 2003 album Hope.[9]
"Trouble the Waters" (1999)
Big Country recorded the song "Trouble the Waters" on their album Driving to Damascus, released in 1999. The song has a reference to Matthew Shepard's murder.
"What Matters" (2000)
Randi Driscoll recorded the song "What Matters" for as an "official benefit single" for the Matthew Shepard Foundation.[10][11]
"Matthew Shepard" (1999)
A song composed by David del Tredici that depicts Matthew Shepard's final hours of life.
"Elegy for Matthew" (1999)
A choral work by composer David Conte, with text by poet John Stirling Walker, commissioned by the New York City Gay Men's Chorus.[12]
Albums[edit]
Lullaby (2002)[edit]
If Thousands recorded their ambient album 2002 Lullaby with a set of 10 songs on Matthew Shepard. Song titles include "he hade the smell of Wyoming sagebrush" and "we miss matt terribly".[13][14]
Books[edit]
The Meaning of Matthew: My Son's Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed (2010)[edit]

The Meaning of Matthew: My Son's Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed
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First edition
 
Author
Judy Shepard
Country
United States
Genre
Biography
Publisher
Hudson Street Press
Publication date
2009
ISBN
1-59463-057-7
By Matthew's mother, Judy Shepard. Details Matthew's life from birth to death, the aftermath, trial, media coverage and Judy's work with the Matthew Shepard Foundation.
See also[edit]
Matthew Shepard Foundation
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Cart, Julie (1999-11-05). "Killer of Gay Student Is Spared Death Penalty; Courts: Matthew Shepard's father says life in prison shows 'mercy to someone who refused to show any mercy.'". Los Angeles Times. p. A1.
2.Jump up ^ THE LARAMIE PROJECT
3.^ Jump up to: a b Matt Roush. "The Lost Boy: Revisiting the Shepard Tragedy" TV Guide; March 9, 2002
4.Jump up ^ [1]
5.Jump up ^ Matthew Shepard Foundation: Home Page
6.Jump up ^ Lauper, Others Headline Gay Rights Tour
7.Jump up ^ Roadrunner Records Australia
8.Jump up ^ Cobblestone Runway reviewed by Adrien Begrand
9.Jump up ^ Pollach, Sam (2003-10-24). "Non-Prophets release new Hope to hip-hop community". Arts & Culture. Lewis & Clark College Pioneer Log. Retrieved 2008-03-11.
10.Jump up ^ Randi Driscoll "What Matters".
11.Jump up ^ "The story behind "What Matters"". Retrieved 2006-04-06.
12.Jump up ^ David Conte - ACF Board Member. Retrieved 2013-09-13.
13.Jump up ^ Lullaby review by Dave Heaton
14.Jump up ^ If Thousands interview for QRD Interviewer asks " What’re the Matthew Shepherd samples & references on Lullaby about?"
Further reading[edit]
Chronological order of publication (oldest first)
Loffreda, Beth (2000). Losing Matt Shepard: life and politics in the aftermath of anti-gay murder. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-11859-7.
Fondakowski, Leigh; Kaufman, Moises (2001). The Laramie project. New York: Vintage Books. ISBN 0-375-72719-1.
Garceau, Dee; Basso, Matthew; McCall, Laura (2001). Across the Great Divide: cultures of manhood in the American West. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-92471-5.
Swigonski, Mary E. ;Mama, Robin S.;Ward, Kelly (2001). From Hate Crimes to Human Rights: A Tribute to Matthew Shepard. New York: Routledge. ISBN 1-56023-256-0.
Patrick Hinds; Romaine Patterson (2005). The Whole World Was Watching: Living in the Light of Matthew Shepard. Advocate Books. ISBN 1-55583-901-0.
External links[edit]
Songs for Matthew Shepard - List of 56 songs.
The Laramie Project Official website
Laramie Inside Out film website
Family Values Ground 'The Matthew Shepard Story' By John Crook (Zap2it.com)
The Tectonic Theater Project's website
Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
The University of Wyoming Rainbow Resource Center
The Laramie Project at the Internet Movie Database
The Matthew Shepard Story at the Internet Movie Database
 

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Matthew Shepard

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This article is about the murder victim. For the Detroit, Michigan based sports reporter, see Matt Shepard (sportscaster).

Matthew Shepard
Matthew Shepard.jpg
Born
Matthew Wayne Shepard
December 1, 1976
Casper, Wyoming, US
Died
October 12, 1998 (aged 21)
Fort Collins, Colorado
Cause of death
Torture (officially, homicide)
Parents
Judy Shepard, Dennis Shepard
Matthew Wayne Shepard (December 1, 1976 – October 12, 1998) was an American student at the University of Wyoming who was tortured and murdered near Laramie, Wyoming in October 1998. He was attacked on the night of October 6–7, and died at Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins, Colorado, on October 12 from severe head injuries.
During the trial, it was widely reported that Shepard was targeted because he was gay; a Laramie police officer testified at a pretrial hearing that the violence against Shepard was due to how the attacker "[felt] about gays", per an interview of the attacker's girlfriend who said she received that explanation.[1] Shepard's murder brought national and international attention to hate crime legislation at the state and federal levels.[2]
In 2009, his mother Judy Shepard authored a book The Meaning of Matthew: My Son's Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed. In October 2009, the United States Congress passed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act (commonly the "Matthew Shepard Act" or "Shepard/Byrd Act" for short), and on October 28, 2009, President Barack Obama signed the legislation into law.[3]

Contents
  [hide] 1 Background
2 Murder 2.1 Funeral protests
3 Arrests and trial
4 Hate crime legislation
5 Public reaction and aftermath
6 Legacy 6.1 Matthew Shepard Foundation
6.2 The Meaning of Matthew
7 See also
8 References
9 Further reading
10 External links
Background[edit]
Shepard was born in Casper, Wyoming, the first of two sons born to Judy Peck and Dennis Shepard. His younger brother Logan was born in 1981. He attended Crest Hill Elementary School, Dean Morgan Junior High School, and Natrona County High School for his freshman through junior years. Saudi Aramco hired his father in the summer of 1994, and his parents subsequently resided at the Saudi Aramco Residential Camp in Dhahran. During that time, Shepard attended The American School In Switzerland (TASIS),[4] from which he graduated in May 1995. Shepard then attended Catawba College in North Carolina and Casper College in Wyoming, before settling in Denver, Colorado. Shepard became a first-year political science major at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, and was chosen as the student representative for the Wyoming Environmental Council.[2]
He was described by his father as "an optimistic and accepting young man who had a special gift of relating to almost everyone. He was the type of person who was very approachable and always looked to new challenges. Matthew had a great passion for equality and always stood up for the acceptance of people's differences."[5]
In February 1995, during a high school trip to Morocco, Shepard was beaten and raped, causing him to experience depression and panic attacks, according to his mother. One of Shepard's friends feared that his depression had driven him to become involved with drugs during his time in college.[6]
Murder[edit]
On the night of October 6–7, 1998, Shepard met Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson at the Fireside Lounge in Laramie, Wyoming.[7][8] It was decided that McKinney and Henderson would give Shepard a ride home.[9] McKinney and Henderson subsequently drove the car to a remote, rural area and proceeded to rob, pistol-whip, and torture Shepard, tying him to a fence and leaving him to die. According to their court testimony, McKinney and Henderson also discovered his address and intended to steal from his home. Still tied to the fence, Shepard, who was still alive but in a coma, was discovered 18 hours later by Aaron Kreifels, a cyclist who initially mistook Shepard for a scarecrow.[10]
Reggie Fluty, the first police officer on the scene, found Shepard alive but covered in blood. The medical gloves issued by the Albany County Sheriff's Department were faulty and Fluty's supply ran out. She decided to use her bare hands to clear an airway in Shepard's bloody mouth. A day later, she was informed that Shepard was HIV positive and that she had been exposed because of cuts on her hands. After taking an AZT regimen for several months, she proved not to have been infected.[11] Judy Shepard later wrote she learned of Matthew's HIV status during his stay at the hospital following the attack.[12]
Shepard had suffered fractures to the back of his head and in front of his right ear. He experienced severe brainstem damage, which affected his body's ability to regulate heart rate, body temperature, and other vital functions. There were also about a dozen small lacerations around his head, face, and neck. His injuries were deemed too severe for doctors to operate. Shepard never regained consciousness and remained on full life support. While he lay in intensive care, and in the days following the attack, candlelight vigils were held around the world.[13][14][15]
Shepard was pronounced dead at 12:53 a.m. on October 12, 1998, at Poudre Valley Hospital, in Fort Collins, Colorado.[16][17][18][19] He was 21 years old.[7]
Funeral protests[edit]
Members of the Westboro Baptist Church, led by Fred Phelps, received national attention for picketing Shepard's funeral with signs bearing homophobic slogans.[20]
Arrests and trial[edit]
Police arrested Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson shortly after the attack, finding the bloody gun and Shepard's shoes and wallet in their truck.[21] Henderson and McKinney later tried to persuade their girlfriends to provide alibis for them.[22]
At trial, McKinney offered various rationales to justify his actions. He originally pleaded the gay panic defense, arguing that he and Henderson were driven to temporary insanity by alleged sexual advances by Shepard. At another point, McKinney's lawyer stated that they had wanted to rob Shepard but never intended to kill him.[21]
The prosecutor in the case alleged that McKinney and Henderson pretended to be gay in order to gain Shepard's trust.[23] During the trial, Kristen Price, girlfriend of McKinney, testified that Henderson and McKinney had "pretended they were gay to get [Shepard] in the truck and rob him".[24][25] McKinney and Henderson went to the Fireside Lounge and selected Shepard after he arrived. McKinney alleged that Shepard asked them for a ride home.[24]
After befriending him, they took him to a remote area outside of Laramie where they robbed him, assaulted him severely, and tied him to a fence with a rope from McKinney's truck while Shepard pleaded for his life. Media reports often contained the graphic account of the pistol whipping and his fractured skull. It was reported that Shepard was beaten so brutally that his face was completely covered in blood, except where it had been partially washed clean by his tears.[26][27] Both girlfriends also testified that neither McKinney nor Henderson were under the influence of drugs or alcohol at the time.[28][29]
Henderson pleaded guilty on April 5, 1999 and agreed to testify against McKinney to avoid the death penalty; he received two consecutive life sentences. The jury in McKinney's trial found him guilty of felony murder. As they began to deliberate on the death penalty, Shepard's parents brokered a deal, resulting in McKinney receiving two consecutive life terms without the possibility of parole.[30]
Henderson and McKinney were incarcerated in the Wyoming State Penitentiary in Rawlins, later being transferred to other prisons because of overcrowding.[31]
Hate crime legislation[edit]
Main article: Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act
See also: Hate crime laws in the United States

President Obama with Louvon Harris, Betty Byrd Boatner, and Judy Shepard

 President Barack Obama greets Louvon Harris, left, Betty Byrd Boatner, right, both sisters of James Byrd, Jr., and Judy Shepard at a reception commemorating the enactment of the legislation
Henderson and McKinney were not charged with a hate crime, because no Wyoming criminal statute provided for such a charge.[32] The nature of Shepard's murder led to requests for new legislation addressing hate crime, urged particularly by those who believed that Shepard was targeted on the basis of his sexual orientation.[33][34] Under then United States federal law[35] and Wyoming state law,[36] crimes committed on the basis of sexual orientation were not prosecutable as hate crimes.
In the following session of the Wyoming Legislature, a bill was introduced defining certain attacks motivated by victim identity as hate crimes, however the measure failed on a 30-30 tie in the Wyoming House of Representatives.[37]
At the federal level, then-President Bill Clinton renewed attempts to extend federal hate crime legislation to include homosexual individuals, women, and people with disabilities.[38] These efforts were rejected by the United States House of Representatives in 1999.[citation needed] In September 2000, both houses of Congress passed such legislation; however it was stripped out in conference committee.[39]
On March 20, 2007, the Matthew Shepard Act (H.R. 1592) was introduced as federal bipartisan legislation in the U.S. Congress, sponsored by Democrat John Conyers with 171 co-sponsors. Shepard's parents were present at the introduction ceremony. The bill passed the House of Representatives on May 3, 2007. Similar legislation passed in the Senate on September 27, 2007[40] (S. 1105), however then-President George W. Bush indicated he would veto the legislation if it reached his desk.[41] The amendment was dropped by the Democratic leadership because of opposition from conservative groups and Bush, and due to the measure being attached to a defense bill there was a lack of support from antiwar Democrats.[42]
On December 10, 2007, congressional powers attached bipartisan hate crimes legislation to a Department of Defense Authorization bill, though failed to get it passed. Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, said she "is still committed to getting the Matthew Shepard Act passed." Pelosi planned to get the bill passed in early 2008[43] though did not succeed in that plan. Following his election as President, Barack Obama stated that he was committed to passing the Act.[44]
The U.S. House of Representatives debated expansion of hate crimes legislation on April 29, 2009. During the debate, Representative Virginia Foxx of North Carolina called the "hate crime" labeling of Shepard's murder a "hoax". Shepard's mother was said to be in the House gallery when the congresswoman made this comment.[45] Foxx later called her comments "a poor choice of words".[46] The House passed the act, designated H.R. 1913, by a vote of 249 to 175.[47] The bill was introduced in the Senate on April 28 by Ted Kennedy, Patrick Leahy, and a bipartisan coalition;[48] it had 43 cosponsors as of June 17, 2009. The Matthew Shepard Act was adopted as an amendment to S.1390 by a vote of 63-28 on July 15, 2009.[49] On October 22, 2009, the act was passed by the Senate by a vote of 68-29.[50] President Obama signed the measure into law on October 28, 2009.[51][52]
Public reaction and aftermath[edit]
See also: Cultural depictions of Matthew Shepard

The Laramie Project

 Scene from a 2008 performance of The Laramie Project depicting the "Angel Action" taken to block Fred Phelps and his protestors from view
Romaine Patterson, a friend of Shepard, organized a group of individuals who assembled in a circle around the Westboro Baptist Church protest group, wearing white robes and gigantic wings (resembling angels) that blocked the protesters. Police had to create a human barrier between the two protest groups.[53]
While the organization had no name in the initial demonstration, it has since been ascribed various titles, including 'Angels of Peace' and 'Angel Action'.[53][54] The fence to which Shepard was tied and left to die became an impromptu shrine for visitors, who left notes, flowers, and other mementos. It has since been removed by the land owner.
The murder continued to attract public attention and media coverage long after the trial was over. In 2004, the ABC News program 20/20 aired a controversial report quoting claims by McKinney, Henderson, and Kristen Price, the prosecutor and a lead investigator that the murder had not been motivated by Shepard's sexuality but rather was merely a drug-related robbery that had turned violent.[21] Critics charged that the report, which featured interviews with Shepard's murderers, was sensational, misleading, and downplayed or ignored evidence of homophobia as a motivation for the crime.[55][56][57][58]
Retired Laramie Police Chief Dave O'Malley stated that the murderers' claims were not credible, but the prosecutor in the case stated that there was ample evidence that drugs were at least a factor in the murder.[59] Other coverage focused on how these more recent statements contradicted those made at and near the trial.[60]
In September 2013, The Book of Matt: Hidden Truths About the Murder of Matthew Shepard by Stephen Jimenez, the producer of the 20/20 segment, was published. The book revived and expanded upon claims by the author that Shepard's murder was at least partly drug-related and that, contrary to the generally accepted version of events, his sexual orientation was not a major motive for the crime. Additionally the author claimed that Shepard and at least one of his killers (McKinney) had been occasional sexual partners.[61][62]
Many musicians have written and recorded songs about the murder, including the Melissa Etheridge song "Scarecrow" on her 1999 album Breakdown. Elton John's 2001 album Songs from the West Coast included "American Triangle" (originally titled "American Tragedy"), a song about Shepard's murder. The American metal band Trivium also composed and recorded "And Sadness Will Sear" on their third album, The Crusade, in honor of Shepard and in protest of closed-mindedness and prejudice.
The American rock band Thursday recorded a song named after Shepard, "M. Shepard", on their 2003 album War All the Time. Lady Gaga performed John Lennon's "Imagine" at the Human Rights Campaign's annual National Dinner in 2009 and changed the lyrics from "above us only sky" to "with only Matthew in the sky".[63]
A play, three narrative films, and a documentary were made about Shepard: The Laramie Project, The Matthew Shepard Story, Anatomy of a Hate Crime, and Laramie Inside Out, and Moral Obligations, a fictionalized account of the night of the murder. The Laramie Project (a play, later turned into a film by HBO) compiles dozens of interviews with citizens of the town of Laramie ranging from a few months after the attack to a few years after. The play is designed to display the town's reaction to the crime.[64][65]
Ten years later, The Laramie Project created a second play, based on interviews with members of the town, Shepard's mother, and his incarcerated murderer.[66]
October Mourning by Lesléa Newman, a novel in verse about Matthew's murder, was published in 2012.[67]
The first openly gay NBA player, Jason Collins, wore the jersey number "98" in honor of Shepard during the 2012–2013 season with the Boston Celtics. [68]
Legacy[edit]
In the years following Shepard's death, his mother Judy Shepard has become a well-known advocate for LGBT rights, particularly issues relating to gay youth.
Matthew Shepard Foundation[edit]
His mother is a prime force behind the Matthew Shepard Foundation, which supports diversity and tolerance in youth organizations. The group was founded in December 1998 by Dennis and Judy Shepard in memory of Matthew.
The Foundation focuses on three primary areas: erasing hate in society; putting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth first; and ensuring equality for all LGBT Americans.
The Meaning of Matthew[edit]
The Meaning of Matthew: My Son's Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed is a 2009 biographical book by Judy Shepard about her son Matthew Shepard. Judy Shepard speaks about her loss, her family memories of Matthew, and the tragic event that changed the Shepards' lives and America. The Meaning of Matthew follows the Shepard family in the days immediately after the crime to see their incapacitated son, kept alive by life support machines; how the Shepards learned of the big response, candlelit vigils and memorial services for their child; how they struggled to navigate the legal system as Matthew's murderers were on trial.
In the book, Judy Shepard explains why she became a gay rights activist, and the challenges and rewards of raising a gay child in America today.
See also[edit]

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Further reading[edit]
Shepard, Judy; (2009). The Meaning of Matthew: My Son's Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed. New York, NY: Penguin Group USA. ISBN 978-1-59463-057-6.
Campbell, Shannon; Laura Castaneda (2005). News and Sexuality: Media Portraits of Diversity. Thousand Oaks, Calif: Sage Publications, Inc. ISBN 1-4129-0998-8.
Fondakowski, Leigh; Kaufman, Moises (2001). The Laramie project. New York: Vintage Books. ISBN 0-375-72719-1.
Garceau, Dee; Basso, Matthew; McCall, Laura (2001). Across the Great Divide: cultures of manhood in the American West. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-92471-5.
Hinds, Patrick; Romaine Patterson (2005). The Whole World Was Watching: Living in the Light of Matthew Shepard. Advocate Books. ISBN 1-55583-901-0.
Loffreda, Beth (2000). Losing Matt Shepard: life and politics in the aftermath of anti-gay murder. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-11859-7.
Swigonski, Mary E.; Mama, Robin S.; Ward, Kelly (2001). From Hate Crimes to Human Rights: A Tribute to Matthew Shepard. New York: Routledge. ISBN 1-56023-256-0.
McConnell, David; (2013). American Honor Killings: Desire and Rage Among Men. Akashic Books. ISBN 978-1617751325.
"The Laramie project" by Moises Kaufman
External links[edit]
The Matthew Shepard Foundation
Matthew Shepard Resource Site at the University of Wyoming
Matthew Shepard collection at the University of Wyoming - American Heritage Center

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