{"id":635,"date":"2009-11-08T22:32:03","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T03:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rainbowlist.wordpress.com\/?p=635"},"modified":"2009-11-08T22:32:03","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T03:32:03","slug":"the-meaning-of-matthew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/archives\/635","title":{"rendered":"The Meaning of Matthew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-636\" title=\"meaning of matthew\" src=\"http:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/meaning-of-matthew.jpg?w=198\" alt=\"meaning of matthew\" width=\"158\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/meaning-of-matthew.jpg 441w, https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/meaning-of-matthew-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 158px) 100vw, 158px\" \/>Shepard, Judy with Jon Barrett.\u00a0 <em>The Meaning of Matthew:\u00a0 My Son\u2019s Murder in Laramie and a World Transformed. <\/em>2009.\u00a0 273p.\u00a0 Hudson\/Penguin, $25.95.\u00a0 (978-1-59463-057-6).\u00a0 Gr. 9-12.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The day that a young student at the University of Wyoming was tied to a fence and left for dead outside Laramie was a turning point for glbt rights.\u00a0 Eleven years after Matt (as his mother called him) died, this tragedy has become an icon for those demanding rights.\u00a0 In her book, Matt\u2019s mother tells about his growing up, his family, his coming out as a gay man, and his struggles that led up to the horrifying telephone call to his parents in Saudi Arabia about the savage beating.\u00a0 In simple, straight-forward language, Shepard then recounts the aftermath\u2014the memorial service picketed by those who despise glbtq people, the plea agreement of one and the trial of the other murderer, and her and her husband\u2019s responses.\u00a0 Her book culminates in a brief description of her gay rights activism, work which has helped pass the federal law criminalizing an assault on an individual because of his or her sexual orientation or gender identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shepard, Judy with Jon Barrett.\u00a0 The Meaning of Matthew:\u00a0 My Son\u2019s Murder in Laramie and a World Transformed. 2009.\u00a0 273p.\u00a0 Hudson\/Penguin, $25.95.\u00a0 (978-1-59463-057-6).\u00a0 Gr. 9-12. The day that a young student at the University of Wyoming was tied to a fence and left for dead outside Laramie was a turning point for glbt rights.\u00a0 Eleven [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[119,126,164,242],"class_list":["post-635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","tag-jon-barrett","tag-judy-shepard","tag-matthew-shepard","tag-the-meaning-of-matthew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}