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The mom of Matthew Shepard stocks her report about her son's death and the decision she made to become an international gay protection under the law activist
Today, the name Matthew Shepard is synonymous with homosexual protection under the law, but before his grisly murder in 1998, Matthew was simply Judy Shepard's boy. For the first time in reserve form, Judy Shepard talks about her reduction, sharing recollections of Matthew, their life as an average American family, and the pivotal event in the small school town that improved everything.
The Meaning of Matthew practices the Shepard family in the days immediately after the crime, when Judy and her hubby traveled to see their incapacitated boy, held alive by life support machines; the way the Shepards discovered of the extraordinary response from strangers all across America who organised candlelit vigils and memorial services for his or her child; and lastly, how they battled to understand the legal system as Matthew's murderers were on trial. Heart-wrenchingly honest, Judy Shepard confides with visitors about how exactly she managed the crippling loss of her child, why she became a homosexual protection under the law activist, and the difficulties and rewards of elevating a homosexual child in America today.
The Meaning of Matthew not only catches the historical value and complicated civil protection under the law issues encircling one young man's life and death, but it also chronicles one normal woman's struggle to cope with the unthinkable.
