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Laramie Inside Out

DVD
56 min
2004
HV6250.4 .H66 L37 2004b DVD

In October 1998, Wyoming college student Matthew Shepard was brutally beaten and left to die. His shocking murder pushed Laramie into the media spotlight and sparked a nationwide debate about homophobia, gay-bashing and hate crimes. Filmmaker Beverly Seckinger, a Laramie native, returns home to the site of her own closeted adolescence to investigate the impact of Shepard's murder. She encounters students, teachers, parents and clergy suddenly moved to speakout and take social action.

Interviewees: Nicki Elder, Janice Harris, John Little, Jeff Mack, Donna Marburger, Jackie Meranda, Jim Osborn, Mickey Patterson, Romaine Patterson, Father Roger Schmit, Stephanie Studer.

Distributed by New Day Films.

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