The Resource The book of Matt : hidden truths about the murder of Matthew Shepard, Stephen Jimenez
The book of Matt : hidden truths about the murder of Matthew Shepard, Stephen Jimenez
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The item The book of Matt : hidden truths about the murder of Matthew Shepard, Stephen Jimenez represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library.
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- Summary
- "Late on the night of October 6, 1998, Matthew Shepard, a twenty-one-year-old gay college student, left a bar in Laramie, Wyoming with two alleged 'strangers,' Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson. Eighteen hours later, Matthew was found tied to a log fence on the outskirts of town, unconscious and barely alive. He had been pistol-whipped so severely that the mountain biker who discovered his battered frame mistook him for a Halloween scarecrow. Overnight, a politically expedient myth took the place of important facts. By the time Matthew died a few days later, his name was synonymous with anti-gay hate. Stephen Jimenez went to Laramie to research the story of Matthew Shepard's murder in 2000, after the two men convicted of killing him had gone to prison, and after the national media had moved on. His aim was to write a screenplay on what he, and the rest of the nation, believed to be an open-and-shut case of bigoted violence. As a gay man, he felt an added moral imperative to tell Matthew's story. But what Jimenez eventually found in Wyoming was a tangled web of secrets. His exhaustive investigation also plunged him deep into the deadly underworld of drug trafficking. Over the course of a thirteen-year investigation, Jimenez traveled to twenty states and Washington DC, and interviewed more than a hundred sources. Who was the real Matthew Shepard and what were the true circumstances of his brutal murder? And now that he was larger than life, did anyone care? The Book of Matt is sure to stir passions and inspire dialogue as it re-frames this misconstrued crime and its cast of characters, proving irrefutably that Matthew Shepard was not killed for being gay but for reasons far more complicated-- and daunting" -- from publisher's web site
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- viii, 360 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781586422141
- Label
- The book of Matt : hidden truths about the murder of Matthew Shepard
- Title
- The book of Matt
- Title remainder
- hidden truths about the murder of Matthew Shepard
- Statement of responsibility
- Stephen Jimenez
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Late on the night of October 6, 1998, Matthew Shepard, a twenty-one-year-old gay college student, left a bar in Laramie, Wyoming with two alleged 'strangers,' Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson. Eighteen hours later, Matthew was found tied to a log fence on the outskirts of town, unconscious and barely alive. He had been pistol-whipped so severely that the mountain biker who discovered his battered frame mistook him for a Halloween scarecrow. Overnight, a politically expedient myth took the place of important facts. By the time Matthew died a few days later, his name was synonymous with anti-gay hate. Stephen Jimenez went to Laramie to research the story of Matthew Shepard's murder in 2000, after the two men convicted of killing him had gone to prison, and after the national media had moved on. His aim was to write a screenplay on what he, and the rest of the nation, believed to be an open-and-shut case of bigoted violence. As a gay man, he felt an added moral imperative to tell Matthew's story. But what Jimenez eventually found in Wyoming was a tangled web of secrets. His exhaustive investigation also plunged him deep into the deadly underworld of drug trafficking. Over the course of a thirteen-year investigation, Jimenez traveled to twenty states and Washington DC, and interviewed more than a hundred sources. Who was the real Matthew Shepard and what were the true circumstances of his brutal murder? And now that he was larger than life, did anyone care? The Book of Matt is sure to stir passions and inspire dialogue as it re-frames this misconstrued crime and its cast of characters, proving irrefutably that Matthew Shepard was not killed for being gay but for reasons far more complicated-- and daunting" -- from publisher's web site
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Jimenez, Stephen
- Dewey number
- 364.1523092
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- HV6773.52
- LC item number
- J56 2013
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Shepard, Matthew
- McKinney, Aaron James
- Henderson, Russell
- Hate crimes
- Gays
- Mass media and public opinion
- Mass media and gays
- Mass media
- Label
- The book of Matt : hidden truths about the murder of Matthew Shepard, Stephen Jimenez
- Bar code
- 31223101356328
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- viii, 360 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781586422141
- Lccn
- 2013431178
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- color illustrations
- System control number
-
- 825046962
- (OCoLC)825046962
- Label
- The book of Matt : hidden truths about the murder of Matthew Shepard, Stephen Jimenez
- Bar code
- 31223101356328
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- viii, 360 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781586422141
- Lccn
- 2013431178
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- color illustrations
- System control number
-
- 825046962
- (OCoLC)825046962
Subject
- Hate crimes -- United States -- Public opinion
- Henderson, Russell, (Russell Arthur)
- Mass media -- United States -- Influence
- Gays -- Crimes against -- United States
- Mass media and public opinion -- United States
- McKinney, Aaron James
- Shepard, Matthew, 1976-1998
- Mass media and gays -- United States
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