Up next, steven m. In as argues the killing of Matthew Shephard on october 1998 was not an antigay hate crime but was e result of a robbery gone wrong. This is about an hour. Even sure i need this microphone, but i will use it because this is being recorded for cspan. It is really a great pleasure to be here tonight. This is actually the first of on a book tour that i have no head about 30 cities. It just seems appropriate in terms of gay history to come to the castro, a place that i have really enjoyed in the past. What i would like to do is kind of introduce the book by telling you a little bit of the history about how i got into writing what is now the book and then i thought, im just going to read briefly the couple of probably too, to a half pages to give you a feeling for of the voice of the book and a little bit about some of what you refer to their as the hidden secrets of the tangle secrets. I went to laramie wyoming for made for Television Movie. My background is in film and
Wrong with looking at half the worlds history. And i have negotiated many of these things throughout my teaching career. The idea is that i wanted to talk back but in a cheerful way. A cheerful and playful way. And i wanted to be the smiling face of womens studies and womens history so that as a diplomat from academic feminism i am approachable and i love my students, but enough with being rude to the professor. People would come by and say that i love your class. You not at all this way. And so thank you for putting that out there. So this is my say that you are not root of the professor in the class will not hurt you, looking at womens history will only improve your life. And what is it like for those on the other side . Those of us that have to deal with a whole range of our work by people who are fearful. Host would teach . What you teach . Guest i teach at George Washington university in georgetown. Everything required for the minor and the mainer. Introductory and womens history.
Not even sure i need this microphone, but i will use it because this is being recorded for cspan. And its really a great pleasure to be here tonight. This is actually the first stop on a book tour that now has about 30 cities. And it just seems really appropriate, i mean, in terms of gay history to come to the castro, a place that i have really, really enjoyed in the past. What id like to do is just kind of introduce the book by telling you a little bit of the history about how i got into writing what is now the book, and then i thought im just going to read briefly a couple of probably about two, two and a half pages to give you a feeling for the voice of the book and a little bit about some of what you referred to there as the hidden secrets or the tangled secrets. I went to laramie, wyoming, in early 2000 to write a screenplay for a madefortelevision movie. My background is really in film and television, and i went there to write a madefortelevision movie about the story that i beli
Evening october 6 in 1998. He died on october 12 a short period later. The media that came to laramie to report the case was relying a lot on a couple of initial press releases and press releases and press conferencconferenc s and basically what they could pick up pick up a lot of which was hearsay because they couldnt interview a lot of witnesses and they couldnt look through the Police Records and they couldnt look at the Police Reports and statements. The statements in the principles in the case. About eight months into my research in laramie i finished the first draft of the screenplay. By then and this happened early on. On. I met the prosecutor in the case. His name was cal. He was the person responsible for sending Aaron Mckenney and Russell Henderson away for life. They both received two life sentences with no chance of a role. After about eight months i finished the draft and i asked the prosecutor to read it and do some factchecking for me and to be sure that i hadnt misstate
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