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This appreciation that life is complicated and people are funny has burst on our politics in other ways that most seers, professional and amateur, failed to predict. Tolerance of gays is an example. Despite horrible episodes like this year's torture-murder of Matthew Shepard, the general public is clearly losing patience with homophobia. Even the most obviously prejudiced politician or anti-gay political activist now feels obliged to deny any anti-gay bias, even when demonstrating one. It would be nice if this was because people concluded that gays are perfectly normal. But it's even better if people...
...December 11, TIME magazine (TIME Digital's editorial parent) invited visitors to vote for the Man of the Year at its web site. Voters were allowed to write in any name they wanted to. One contingent, which included many members of the gay community, was pulling for Matthew Shepard, the gay college student from Wyoming who was murdered last October. Another major bloc was backing pro wrestler Mick Foley. Before long the two were neck and neck for the lead...
...Lipman '00, who helped draw outlines and tape flyers last night, said the media attention given to Hester paled in contrast to Matthew Shepard, a gay University of Wyoming student who was murdered in October...
...parallel that comes to mind is the huge public outcry after Matthew Shepard's death versus the virtual silence after Rita Hester's equally brutal murder," he said...
...Shepard males are on the ridge now, up at the place they call "the pretty spot." As in another great American pastime, baseball, there are long intervals of waiting, punctuated by sudden action. The beer louts don't know it, but the sweetest part of hunting is waiting: it produces a transcendent, settling clarity. A hundred yards off through the trees, a white tail flips; the doe hobby-horses off slow motion, away from us. No shot...