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Personal life. Jimenez, who is gay, [1] came out in the 1970s. He marched in the first National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, which took place in 1979. [2] He is a graduate of Georgetown University. [3] [4] He lives in Brooklyn and Santa Fe, NM. [5] Jimenez is also known as Steve Jimenez. [6]
Matthew Shepard is a special case who can't simply be treated the same way as most others, because for one reason or another his notability as an article topic transcended the circumstances of how it was initially established in the first place — very few other murder victims can honestly claim to have become enduringly megafamous symbols of ...
The Meaning of Matthew: My Son's Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed is a 2009 memoir about the life of Matthew Shepard, written by his mother, Judy Shepard. The book was published by Hudson Street Press on September 3, 2009, and was featured as a New York Times best-seller for the week of September 27, 2009.
The gay panic defense or homosexual advance defence is a strategy of legal defense, which refers to a situation in which a heterosexual individual charged with a violent crime against a homosexual (or bisexual) individual claims they lost control and reacted violently because of an unwanted sexual advance that was made upon them.
Boys Don't Cry is a 1999 American biographical film directed by Kimberly Peirce, and co-written by Peirce and Andy Bienen.The film is a dramatization of the real-life story of Brandon Teena (played by Hilary Swank), an American trans man who attempts to find himself and love in Nebraska but falls victim to a brutal hate crime perpetrated by two male acquaintances.
January 10, 2002. ( 2002-01-10) The Laramie Project is a 2002 drama film written and directed by Moisés Kaufman and starring Nestor Carbonell, Christina Ricci, Dylan Baker, Terry Kinney, and Lou Ann Wright. Based on the play of the same name, the film tells the story of the aftermath of the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming.
In 2009, the Obama administration enacted the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act. The law extended federal hate crimes laws to cover sexual orientation, gender identity ...
Richard "Richie" Joseph Hofmann, is an American poet, winner of the Alice James Award, and the Pushcart Prize. He is regularly published in The New Yorker, [1] [2] [3] and has been featured in The Atlantic, [4] The New York Times [5] [6] and The New York Review of Books. [7] Hofmann was the Jones Lecturer in poetry at Stanford University, where ...