Student became much more than a news story: For many, gay-bashing now had a face and it was Matthew Shepard's.īut how will TV audiences react to another fact-based story in which one of the principals is a transgendered former U.S. Once it became the foundation for theater, the beating death of a gay There were probably a number of Americans who didn't think much about the issue of violence against gays until 'The Laramie Project' came along, both onstage and in a superb HBO adaptation.
