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by Ethan Jacobs Bay Windows Thursday Oct 9, 2008 Ten years ago Matthew Shepard’s murder caught the attention of the mainstream media and the public in a way that no anti-LGBT hate crime had done before or since, but it also accomplished another feat: it touched a chord in pop culture and the arts and led to a wave of plays, films, songs, poems, and other creative works, many aimed at mainstream audiences, that depicted his death and grappled with what it meant for American society. Shepard’s murder spawned a wide range of works, some, like Moises Kaufman’s play The Laramie Project, that continue to live on, and others, like MTV’s made-for-TV movie Anatomy of a Hate Crime, that have faded into pop culture obscurity. The number of songs written and recorded by major recording stars about his death, by artists ranging from... [read full story]
