![]() ![]() Homophobia and gay bashing, of which Matthew was the ultimate victim and martyr, was her topic and the recent hate crime, reported locally, nationally and internationally, only made her presence and her speech that much more poignant.ġ4 years later, Newman is releasing October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard, a novel in verse featuring over sixty poems describing the Matthew Shepard experience. She was scheduled to give the keynote address at the University of Wyoming’s Gay Awareness Week, an event Matthew had planned on attending. Poet Lesléa Newman, author of the lesbian children’s book Heather Has Two Mommies, arrived in Laramie,Wyoming in the fall of 1998, just five days after 21-year-old gay man Matthew Shepard was discovered in the wild, tied to a fence, crying, beaten and dying. ‘October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard’ by Lesléa Newman ![]()
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