Welcome to the Non-Literary Bibliography List for the study of TLP!
This list is primarily for study of the incident and play from a non-literary context. You'll find academic studies, news articles, books, and more regarding the Shepard murder, the trials, and the political response on this list. Right now, the focus is mainly on primary sources on the murder and trials, but I'm slowly expanding that.
If you are looking for scholarship on literary or dramatic aspects of TLP, please visit the Literary Study Bibliographic Master-List, linked here. You will find everything from academic scholarship to blog posts from involved people/interviewees, to study guide material.
If you want copies of any of this but can't get hold of them through your scholarly community, feel free to email me at jackrabbit.blog@gmail.com and I'll help out wherever I can. Some things I can make available through my Google Docs account or send directly to you if it's for academic purposes as per US Copyright law.
Academic Scholarship on Social Aspects of the Shepard Incident:
Elsbree, Anne René, and Penelope Wong. "The Laramie Project as a Homophobic Disruption: How the Play Impacts Pre-Service Teachers' Preparation to Create Anti-Homophobic Schools." Journal of Gay & Lesbian Issues In Education 4.4 (2007): 97-117.
Frommer, Martin Stephen. "Thinking Relationally About Forgiveness." Psychoanalytic Dialogues 15.1 (2005): 33-45.
Kiersky, Sandra. "Revenge and Forgiveness in Psychoanalysis: Commentary on Stephen Wangh's 'Revenge and Forgiveness in Laramie, Wyoming.'"Psychoanalytic Dialogues 15.5 (2005): 771-78.
Lynch, John. " Memory and Matthew Shepard: Opposing Expressions of Public Memory in Television Movies." Journal of Communication Inquiry 31.3(2007):222-38.
Mulvey, Anne, and Charlotte Mandell. "Using the Arts to Challenge Hate, Create Community: Laramie Lives in Lowell." Journal of Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapy 11.3/4 (2007): 121.
Noelle, Monique. "The Ripple Effect of the Matthew Shepard Murder: Impact on the Assumptive Worlds of Members of the Targeted Group." American Behavioral Scientist 46.1 (2002): 27.
Ott, Brian L., and Eric Aoki. "The Politics of Negotiating Public Tragedy: Media Framing of the Matthew Shepard Murder." Rhetoric & Public Affairs 5.3 (2002): 483-505.
Pace, Nicholas J. "I've Completely Changed: The Transforming Impact of the Matthew Shepard Scholarship." Journal of Advanced Academics 18.3 (2007): 344-371.
Petersen, Jennifer. "Media as Sentimental Education: The Political Lessons of HBO's The Laramie Project and PBS's Two Towns of Jasper." Critical Studies in Media Communication 26.3 (2009): 255-274.
Quist, Ryan M., and Douglas M. Wiegand. "Attributions of Hate: The Media's Causal Attributions of a Homophobic Murder." American Behavioral Scientist 46.1 (2002): 93.
Saewic, E., and S. Marshall. "Reducing Homophobia in High School: The Effects of The Laramie Project Plays and an Integrated Curriculum." Journal of Adolescent Health 48.2 (2011): 111.
Sandage, Steven J. "Intersubjectivity and the Many Faces of Forgiveness: Commentary on Paper by Stephen Wangh." Psychoanalytic Dialogues 15.1 (2005): 17-32.
Wangh, Stephen. "Reply to Commentaries." Psychoanalytic Dialogues 15.1(2005): 47-56. ---."Revenge and Forgiveness in Laramie, Wyoming." Psychoanalytic Dialogues 15.1 (2005): 1-16.
News Coverage of the incident:
ABC 20/20 Program:
- Available as a web summary of the program here. Full transcript of the program available via LexisNexis academic (which I also have...)
- Martin, Michael. "Remembering Matthew." Advocate 1017 (2008): 28-35.
- "Revisiting Laramie." Advocate 899 (2003): 31. [Interviews w/ principal people 5 years later]
- Gross, Michael Joseph. "Pain and Prominence." Advocate 899 (2003): 26. [Judy Shepard]
- Vilanch, Bruce. "Hallowed Ground." Advocate 815 (2000): 47. [The Fence]
- Curtis, Phil. "More Than a Verdict." Advocate 802/803 (2000): 34. [Sentencing; M&H's future as prisoners]
- Curtis, Phil. "A Town Reflects on Itself." Advocate 796 (1999): 44. [Interviews with friends]
- Wieder, Judy. "The Shepard Family Heals." Advocate 796 (1999): 38.
- Bertrand, Stephen J. "Matthew Shepard One Year Later." Advocate 796 (1999): 36.
- Barrett, Jon. "The Lost Brother." Advocate 773 (1998): 26-30. [Interviews]
- Weekend Edition, Oct. 12 2008: Shepard Case Haunts Reporters 10 Years Later-- This is a nice overview of how the Shepard case affected reporters covering the case locally. It includes interviews with Heather Feeney, Kerry Drake (a TLP interviewee) and Rob Black of the AP.
- All Things Considered, Nov. 4, 1999: Laramie Sentencing-- McKinney gets two life sentences
- All Things Considered, Nov. 3, 1999: Laramie Verdict-- McKinney is convicted
- Morning Edition, Oct. 11, 1999: Shepard Murder Trial-- The start of Aaron McKinney's trial.
- April 5, 1999: Laramie Murder-- Russell Henderson pleads guilty to murder
- Weekend Edition, Oct. 17, 1998: Matthew Shepard-- coverage of Shepard's funeral and the WBC protests there
- All Things Considered, Oct. 12 1998: Wyoming Student Dies-- coverage the morning of Shepard's death
- All Things Considered, Oct, 11, 1998: Gay Bashing-- one of the earliest reports of Shepard's beating I can find in the archive. Covers the arraignment of Henderson and McKinney.
- Bauman, Peter. "Ten Years Later: UW Dedicates Bench in Honor of Matthew Shepard." Laramieboomerang.com 28 Sep 2008. Web.
- Thomsen, Debra. "Matthew Shepard 10 Years Later." Laramieboomerang.com 06 Oct 2008. Web. [Part 1 of 5]
- Haderlie, Carrie. "Matthew Shepard 10 Years Later." Laramieboomerang.com 07 Oct 2008. Web. [Part 2 of 5]
- Haderlie, Carrie. "Matthew Shepard 10 Years Later." Laramieboomerang.com 08 Oct 2008. Web. [Part 3 of 5]
- Haderlie, Carrie. "Matthew Shepard 10 Years Later." Laramieboomerang.com 10 Oct 2008. Web. [Part 4 of 5]
- Haderlie, Carrie. "Matthew Shepard 10 Years Later." Laramieboomerang.com 11 Oct 2008. Web. [Part 5 of 5]
- Thomsen, Debra. "10 Years Later, it is Time to Move On." Editorial. Laramie Daily Boomerang 11 Oct 2008: 5.
- "Laramie is a Community, Not a 'Project.'" Editorial. Laramie Daily Boomerang 12 Oct 2008:5.
- Fineman, Howard. "Echoes of a Murder in Wyoming." Newsweek 26 Oct. 1998. Web.
- Hammer, Joshua. "The Gay Panic Defense." Newsweek 08 Nov. 1999. Web.
- Miller, Mark. "The Final Days and Nights of a Gay Martyr." Newsweek 21 Dec. 1998. Web.
- Soller, Kurt. "Not Just a Wyoming Problem." Newsweek Web 11 Oct 2008. Web.
Interview with Jim Osborn, former president of the UW LGBTA and friend of Shepard.
- NYT's Laramie Project page: Back during the release of HBO's version of The Laramie Project, NYT and HBO put together a free list of seventeen articles about the murder and trials. A link to the page with access to the articles is still available at this link.
Time Magazine/Time.com:
- Chua-Eoan, Howard, Richard Woodbury and Maureen Harrington. "That's Not a Scarecrow." Time 19 Oct 1998. Web.
- Richard Lacayo et al. "The New Gay Struggle." Time 26 Oct. 1998. Web.
- Lopez, Steve, Maureen Harrington and Richard Woodbury. "To Be Young and Gay in Wyoming." Time 26 Oct 1998. Web. [View cover here.]
- Time's Online Classroom for the HBO movie The Laramie Project, 2002. Web. [Great resource.]
- Therstrom, Melanie. "The Crucifixion of Matthew Shepard." Vanity Fair Mar. 1999: 209-14, 267–275. [Link goes to a questionable online source.]
Books:
Gibson, Scott. Blood and Tears: Poems for Matthew Shepard. Painted Leaf Press, 1999.
[Honestly, I flipped through a copy of this once and was a little disturbed, but you can make your own decisions.]
Loffreda, Beth. Losing Matthew Shepard: Life and Politics in the Aftermath of Anti-Gay Murder. New York: Columbia UP, 2000.
Patterson, Romaine, and Patrick Hinds. The Whole World Was Watching: Living in the Life of Matthew Shepard. Advocate Books, 2005.
Shepard, Judy. The Meaning of Matthew. Hudson Street Press, 2009.
Swigonski, Mary, et. al. From Hate Crimes to Human Rights: A Tribute to Matthew Shepard. Routledge, 2001.
[This is more of a hard-hitting manual for LGBT activism, but it includes a personal anecdote of Shepard and dedicated to his memory.]
Archival and Primary Research Resources:
- The UW online archive of the Matthew Shepard incident, via archive-it.org: linked here.
- UW Press release page for the Matt Shepard murder, with the main press releases and text of public speeches, etc., linked here.
- University of Wyoming American Heritage Center, The Matthew Shepard Collection (1983-2008). MS # 300014.
This consists of nine boxes of correspondence, clippings, e-mails, and everything you can imagine regarding UW and the Shepard case. I have the finding aid linked here so you can plan ahead the next time you're in Laramie.
Video Resources:
The ABC 20/20 Program: This is the program that sent everybody up in arms because it concludes that, since Matt was a bit of a personal mess and the murderers did drugs, that he was murdered in a "drug deal gone bad." It is available through Amazon-- if you want to watch it-- but LexisNexis has the program transcript available, too.
A&E Program, American Justice, Matthew Shepard: Death in the High Desert. Available for record-on-demand through Amazon. I have never seen this, but it's available...
Seckinger, Beverly. Laramie Inside Out. This isn't currently on the market, so check via interlibrary loan or used video sellers. A very good documentary of the Shepard trials and protests, from a UW recent alum.
Angels Turn Their Backs on Hate: filmed by The Working Group. This is a short clip showing the now-famous Newark High School production of The Laramie Project, which was filmed about the same time Fred Phelps threatened to protest their production.
