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Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on September 1, 2012
In Laramie, Wyoming, one October evening in 1998, a gay twenty-one-year-old student named Matthew Shepard was kidnapped from a bar, robbed, beaten, tied to a fence in a field, and left to die. He was found eighteen hours later by a biker who thought he was "a scarecrow’s head / slumped over / that forsaken fence / not a smashed shattered / pumpkin of a boy." Shepard died five days later. The horrific incident stunned the...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2012 | Older Fiction
Gay student Matthew Shepard's murder stunned the University of Wyoming community in October 1998; Gay Awareness Week was about to begin,...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
