YaleHerald.com – By Sarah Yager
Ten years ago, college student Matthew Shepard was brutally murdered by two of his peers for being gay. On Sunday evening, Oct. 12, the anniversary of Shepard’s death, a small group of students gathered in Silliman’s Silliflicks theater for a screening of The Laramie Project. The powerful documentary, composed of interviews with people that knew Matthew Shepard and his killers, is a raw and moving account of a hate crime. According to Kira Newman, SM ’10, chair of the undergraduate chapter of the Yale ACLU, which organized the event, the screening was meant to “encourage dialogue” among students about issues of sexuality and gender