Word: scarecrow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most people on this campus, and probably around the country, know the gruesome story: Matthew Shepard, a first-year at the University of Wyoming at Laramie, was lured by two men out of town. They tied him like a scarecrow to the fence of a ranch and beat him to death because he was gay. I know Wyoming somewhat: it can be a violent place, and most people I've met there don't like homosexuals. But the deliberate savagery of this murder, a hate crime, shocked people, because, for the most part, they have what the writer William...
...ignited a national town meeting on the enduring hatred that shames this country, a hatred so intense that even death didn't save him from it. While he lay dying at a hospital in nearby Colorado and thousands wired their support, college students there mocked Shepard with a scarecrow atop a parade float. While his family prepared for his burial and spoke of Shepard's gentleness and tolerant ways, a Kansas minister with a website called godhatesfags.com made plans to do a grave dance at the funeral...
...hung spread-eagled on a rough-hewn deer fence through a night of near freezing temperatures, unconscious and losing more and more blood. On the evening of the next day, 18 hours after he was abandoned, two bicyclists saw him. At first, they thought they were looking at a scarecrow. On seeing his nephew's near lifeless body hooked up to a respirator, Robert Eaton told a reporter, "It's like something you might...
American acting, for Stewart carried the image of America, at least as the nation once fancied itself: rural, righteous, ornery, stubborn in its idealism, never picking a fight and never backing away from one. To look at his scarecrow physique and the long, gawky strides, as if he were making his way across a pond by stepping on turtles' backs, you'd never guess Stewart was a movie star. But that's what helped make him one: his extraordinary ordinariness...
According to the program's literature, in the Wizard of AIDS Dorothy is transported to a world threatened by AIDS. Along the way, she meets the Wicked Witch of Needle-Sharing and her sister, the Wicked Witch of Unsafe Sex, and makes friends with the "over-sexed" Scarecrow, the "promiscuous" Tin Babe and the Homosexual Cowardly Lion...