'A journey of personal change'
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/features/5703362.html
4/15/2008
"Nearly 10 years ago, her college-student son Matthew was fatally
beaten in a gay-bashing murder that shocked the country. In the decade
since, Shepard has been traveling the country pleading for acceptance
and lobbying for gay rights and tougher hate-crimes laws"