![]() The media converged and national, and worldwide, attention was focused on the community which struggled to process what had happened. The town was torn apart by outrage and disbelief. He was found after many hours and taken to a Colorado hospital but died of severe head injuries six days later. On October 6, 1998, uni student Matthew Shepard, just 21, barely five-foot-two, was beaten, tied to a fence, pistol-whipped and left to die by two men his own age. The sleepy little city was awoken with a jolt when one of its young men was tortured and killed because he was gay. These days it’s an urbanised rural community, with fast-food chains, supermarkets, internet hubs. “Why did it happen here?!” is the constant refrain from the townsfolk of Laramie, the old cowboy town in Wyoming. Show seen: Wednesday, May 14, at 7pm at Riverside Theatres Parramatta.
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