The Laramie Project Page #10

It's not clear to me,

having Known Matthew...

...what story he would want

told about this.

We won't fully understand

what happened here...

...until time has had a chance

to filter that out for us.

What happened here,

the culture that caused this...

...the complex set of events

leading up to it...

...it would have been like

us trying to stop a tank.

Change is not an easy thing,

and I don't think people were up to it.

They got what they wanted.

Those two boys got what they deserve,

and we look good now.

It's been over a year since

Matthew Shepard died...

...and they haven't passed sh*t in Wyoming.

They haven't passed it at a state level...

...any town, anybody, anywhere...

...has passed any kind of laws.

Anti-discrimination laws

or hate crime legislation...

...nobody has passed anything anywhere.

What's come out of it?

What's come out of it

that's concrete and lasting?

"The dead will be commemorated

and will struggle on with the living...

"...and we are not going away.

"We won't die secret deaths anymore.

"The world only spins forward.

"We will be citizens.

"The time has come.

"'Bye, now."

Have you ever gone out to the fence?

I drove up to the site in my limousine...

...and I remembered something to myself

the night he and I drove around together.

He said, "laramie sparkles, doesn't it?"

And where he was in that spot up there...

...if you sit exactly in that spot up there,

laramie sparkles from there.

With the low-lying clouds...

...it's the blue lights bouncing off

the clouds from the airport...

...and it goes...

...over the whole city.

I mean...

...it blows you away.

Matt was right there in that spot,

and I can just picture...

...in his eyes...

I can picture what he was seeing.

The last thing that he saw on this earth...

...was the sparKling lights

of Laramie, Wyoming.

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