Social Justice Event
The social justice event I attended was the screening of Matthew Shepard is a Friend of Mine on Oct 3rd. This movie documented the life of Matthew Shepard and the tragedy that ended it. Matthew Shepard was an American student at the University of Wyoming. who was beaten, abused, tutored, tied to a fence post and left to die by two men named McKinney and Henderson. According to ABC News , "McKinney hit Shepard about 20 times in the head and face with the end of the pistol, Marsden said, before the two stole Shepard's shoes, got in their truck and drove back to town. Shepard was found the next day, 18 hours later, by a passing cyclist." The passing cyclist saw, "what he thought was a scarecrow lashed to a wooden buck fence on a remote plot of land. The scarecrow turned out to be Matthew, unconscious, a huge gash in his head, his face drenched with blood except where his tear trails had washed it clean." ( Vanity Fair ) His mother described him as being beaten so b...
