nice selection Kyle!
I watched The Laramie Project last night.
Its based on the 1998 murder of Matthew Sheppard.
Matthew was a gay 21 year old guy and one night in October 1998 two local guys around his age took him in their car and beat him up badly and then tied him to a fence in the middle of nowhere and beat him up more and left him there for 18 hours! Then a local person noticed him on the fence and called the police, he got sent to hospital and died few days later due to massive head injury's. The two guys that did it got sent to court and both got 2 lifetime sentences. Back then death penalty was on the cards for one of the guys but even though everyone wanted to put him to death the farther said at a court case " My wife and Matthew did not want death penalty, but I do. As much as I would like to see you die Mr Kinny I will grant you life in the name of Matthew as he ould not want to see you die. So I hope you think about Matt every morning you wake up"
The whole of america was shooken up by this act of gay hate and the world watched. Even President Clinton made a speech about Matt, his death did not go in vein as cause of his death US created the Anti Hate Crime law and whole of America woke up to Hate crime.
It was a very emotional movie, they used actors from Hollywood and TV at the time to portray the people who was interviewed and showed bit of real news footage. Surprising they never showed one picture of Matt. It actually made me sick thinking about what humans can do to each other just because of being different. It also shocking and sad when you hear the person that found him say how they found him and what condition he was in.
Everyone should see this movie I think.
Anyway enough of serious stuff
