"The Laramie Project" explores the viewpoints, emotions, and mindsets of that community in the aftermath of an act of hate.
In October of 1998, Matthew Shepard, a twenty-one-year-old university student, was kidnapped, severely beaten, and left to die in the middle of the prairie outside Laramie, Wyoming; because he was gay.
Two months earlier, The Trevor Project, the now leading nonprofit that provides suicide prevention and crisis intervention for LGBTQ+ young people, answered it’s first phone call.
