The Meaning of Matthew Shepard

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Judy Shepard, Matthew Shepard’s mother, shares her story about her son's death and the choice she made to become an international gay rights activist. Her book The Meaning of Matthew: My Son's Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed looks at the historical significance and complicated civil rights issues surrounding Matthew Shepard’s life and death, and describes a mother’s struggle to cope with the loss of her son.

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