Archives
Matthew Shepard
-
RTP’s The Laramie Project Is A Moving Reminder Of How Far We Still Need To Go
This past week, Richmond Triangle Players (RTP) opened it’s production of The Laramie Project. The show recounts the heartbreaking story of Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old University of Wyoming student who was found beaten, tortured, tied to a fence, and left to die in the middle of a field in Laramie, Wyoming. This hate crime would [...]
0 -
Tim Kaine, Abigail Spanberger Join RTP For Special Laramie Project Performance
On Friday, September 14, Senator Tim Kaine, his wife Anne Holton, and 7th District Congressional candidate Abigail Spanberger joined Matthew Shepard’s parents, Judy and Dennis Shepard, for a special performance of excerpts from The Laramie Project. Richmond Triangle Players’ production of The Laramie Project, which premieres later this month, is intended to commemorate the 20th [...]
-
The Dive: Is the Trans Military Ban Really Over? And Is Ellen DeGeneres Part of the #DeepState?
Welcome back to The Dive, our weekly column digging through the dirt to find all the LGBTQ news we didn’t get a chance to cover this week. If you’ll put on your oxygen masks, we’ll begin. The Trump administration has given up on the trans military ban… for now. As in the ending of a horror [...]
-
Matthew Shepard documentary, “Matt Shepard is a Friend of Mine” premieres tonight on Logo
A documentary on Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old gay college student from Wyoming who was attacked and murdered in a hate crime in 1998, will premiere tonight on Logo at 9 pm. ”Matt Shepard is a Friend of Mine,” follows director Michele Josue, a close friend of Matt’s, as she travels to important locations in Matthew’s [...]
-
The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later
Sycamore Rouge’s new production chronicles what happened in Matthew Shepard’s town one decade later.
-
-
-
Recent Posts
- Side By Side Launches Host Home Program To Combat Youth Homelessness
- Muralist Emily Herr Puts Positive Spin On Female Masculinity With Virago Spirits Mural
- University of Richmond Launches Trans-Inclusive Health Care Program
- Diversity Richmond’s Third Annual Black And Bold Awards Celebrate RVA’s Black LGBTQ Community
- Bipartisan Groups In Both Houses of Congress Introduce Legislation To Block Trump’s Trans Military Ban
Friend Activity
-
-
