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Seven years ago, Matthew Shepard was murdered--and became the eye of a media hurricane in Laramie, Wyoming, that culminated in the arrival of Baptist minister Fred Phelps to picket the funeral with signs reading "Matt burns in hell" and "The Wages of Gay Sin is Death." Patterson, Shepard's best friend and a "tomboy" with three gay brothers in her large Irish family, marshaled support for foiling Phelps' espousal of the killers at their trial, thereby launching herself as global activist and spokeswoman for gay acceptance. She went on to become a consultant for The Laramie Project, an award-winning play later filmed by HBO, and reinvent herself to carry half of the Derek and Romaine Show on satellite radio. Her often-hilarious stories of budding-lesbian girlhood offset by summer vacations in Denver with a dying brother; of her undergraduate career as one of the Casper Queers (of Casper College, where she met Shepard); and of Shepard's funeral-turned-media-circus retrace this gutsy yet introspective woman's deeply moving personal journey into international political activism. Whitney Scott
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Book Description
In one of their last conversations, Matthew Shepard told his best friend, Romaine Patterson, that he wanted to spend his life helping people realise that they, as individuals, could make a difference in the world. This is Romaine's journey to realise the truth of that statement.
