LGBT Hate Crimes Timeline
http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=FCFFF348A798917605CA4CD0D2192404?diaryId=7415by: TerranceDC
Tue Oct 07, 2008 at 17:41:54 PM EDT
Ten years ago yesterday, I was in a hotel in Albuquerque, NM - helping to facilitate an HIV/AIDS prevention and education training for a Latina organization - when heard about Matthew Shepard. I was brushing my teeth while listening to the morning news on television. (I still watched TV news back then.) At some point during the report about Shepard, I came out of the bathroom and sat down on the bed. I may have still had my toothbrush in my mouth. I know I was only half dressed, and had to hurry to finish dressing and get downstairs for the training.
It was an hour before I could speak to anyone, and even then I could only manage to tell them what I'd seen on the news. I kept running back up to my room to catch the news during breaks. At some point my update was that Matthew had died. Later, I flew back to D.C., and the first thing I did was to go to a huge rally at the Capitol, where I met up with some of my friends who were also trying to get their brains around what happened.
