Podcast appearances and mentions of matthew shephard

UNLOCK FULL EP ON PATREON https://www.patreon.com/BareBactrian Check out The Good Ole Boys on Patreon and Twitter: https://www.patreon.com/goodolboyz https://twitter.com/GoodOlBoysPod Follow Basil, Maarek, and Bog_Beef on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NeoBactrian https://twitter.com/Maarblek https://twitter.com/bog_beef This week, Basil is joined by the Good Ole Boys to talk Southern Pride World Wide and The Civil Rights Act. Maarek and Bog_Beef have the unique distinction among take-sellers to have witnessed up close and personal Basil's Inquisition of the so-called Post-Left back in 2021 (y'all remember a little something called WiSpa?, and were thankfully such Good Ole Boys about it even way back then to, now, in 2024, look back fondly as we take a stroll down memory lane to relive the rise and fall of the so-called Post-Left. Then we turn our attention to the main focus of our discussion: The Civil Rights Act. Much of the Basilian critique of the TQ™ rests upon the work that The Good Ole Boys have done in demystifying the role of the Civil Rights Act as the legal framework of the censorship we all find ourselves reacting against. From Disparate Impact, to Bostock, to Twitch Gendergoblin Community Guidelines staffers, It's All One Thing™. And that thing, The Civil Rights Act, is among other things, why you shouldn't call yourself Gay™ Straight™ Cis™ or Trans™. Its also why being normal (read: heterosexual™) is very much against the law. Of course we discuss why the TQ™ is a much better litmus test than using slurs, reading Mishima, or avoiding seed oils and we end with a little call back to Basil's "Alexander The Gay?" episode from last season, a little Gore Vidal (not Gay™) appreciation, a little Jeffrey Star and RuPaul admiration, and a little Matthew Shephard denigration. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/barebactrian/support

The Context of White Supremacy welcomes Warren Read. A White male, writer and educator, Mr. Warren is a Washington state native. Once again, James Loewen's Sundown Towns (Racially Restricted Regions) is instructive because many areas of Washington state and Minnesota where hostile to and/or prohibited the presence of black people. Read wrote about his White Grandfather, Louis Dondino, who participated in lynching thee black males in Duluth, Minnesota in 1920. Dondino served a brief stint in prison for his conviction of rioting (not murder) in this case. Read's book, The Lyncher in Me, is his account of this grizzly act of White Terrorism and a biography of his White (Racist?) family's criminal history - which includes child rape. Gus found this ironic considering the reason Dondino and other Whites lynched three black dudes is because the privileged trio was accused of raping a White girl - which turned out to be a lie. Read describes growing up in a mostly White Washington state enclave. However, he was "terrorized" in middle school by a loudmouth, thick-armed, kinky-haired black female. Read starts his memoir suggesting that he, a "gay" White dude, is also libel to be lynched or assassinated like Matthew Shephard. Contrary to popular opinion, Shephard is not a hate crime victim. Rather, this White dude was killed in a drug deal gone bad. Mr. Read is aware of this, but works to deceive readers into thinking that all kinds of White people are lynched and crucified like the biblical White Jesus. #WhitePeopleCantBeIgnorantAboutRacism #TheDelectableNegro #TheCOWS15Years INVEST in The COWS – http://paypal.me/TheCOWS Cash App: https://cash.app/$TheCOWS CALL IN NUMBER: 605.313.5164 CODE: 564943#

Today, while Julie fields four jobs and an untold number of children, we have an extra special Feeler in the house – Meghan's husband Jon. Come along while man and wife discuss politics, Matthew Shephard, slow changes in US thinking and policy (including broken healthcare), what's good, and the purpose of crafting a persona for creative work. Because he's a practiced hand, Jon brings it for the advice column and a few rants and raves. He's a smooth operator. The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life by Anu PartanenPlastic Jesus's “Bullet Proof School Desk”“The Crying Indian” commercial for Keep America BeautifulThroughline episode "The Litter Myth" from 9.5.19Meghan McDonnell on MediumRead along in Falter: Volume Twelve – The Journals of Meghan McDonnellPlaylist on SpotifyFollow us on InstagramEmail us at thefeelingspodcast@gmail.comFind us on Pinterest: @thefeelingspodcastThe Feelings (buzzsprout.com)Music: “When it All Falls” by Ketsa* Names and identifying characteristics have been changed to protect identities. We have solely recorded our interpretations and opinions of all events. Certain place names have been changed

First off, trigger warning x3 for lgbtq+ violence, violence against kiddos, and some political talk about women's healthcare and the Supreme Court's recent regression to the 1950s. This week we talked about a landmark case from the 1990s that helped solidify the definition of a hate crime, and the iconic and devastating story of the West Memphis Three

In this episode we cover the murder of Matthew Shephard in particular. Part two will cover James Byrd Jr. Both men were brutally murdered in hateful attacks. Their deaths were two of many that were clear hate crimes.  October 28, 2009, President Barack Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act which amended federal hate crime law to include gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, and disability.Matthew's Father Speaks About the Case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nmP-PM6tQsDonate to the Matthew Shepard Foundation: https://www.matthewshepard.org/contribute/ways-to-give/#:~:text=Visit%20our%20Donate%20page%20to,7400%20x.Support the show

*Today we present the return of a classic show. * The List of Homosexual Mass Murderers: First published a decade ago, and then updated and broadcast again in 2019, this topic is self-censored by the media and western universities. Worse, a visiting Hollander told Bob Enyart, who compiled the horrifying data, "Such a list would be against the law in my country. Sadly, a far longer list, of more than 34,400 terrorist killings since 9/11 committed by adherents to the religion of peace in the name of Allah, is available over at kgov.com/terror and a shocking number of the high-profile crimes that helped to tear America apart were committed by potheads as documented at kgov.com/pot. But here we present KGOV's list of homosexual mass murderers. (Please email updates or corrections to Bob@kgov.com.) MateenGay Jeffrey Dahmer: raped, murdered, and ate 17 young men and boys.Gay Adam Lanza: murdered 28 including 20 Sandy Hook Elementary School children.Gay Luis Garavito: rapist, torturer, and murderer of more than 147 of Columbia's young boys.Gay Omar Mateen: murdered 49 in Orlando with terrible collateral damage.Gay John Wayne Gacy: Chicago, killed 33 boys and buried them in his house and yard. Gay Jim Jones: killed 917 people.Gay Mohamed Bouhlel: killed 84 in Nice, France including 10 children.Gay California Freeway Killer William G. Bonin: murdered 14 boys ages 12 to 19, sexually molested them, tortured, mutilated, strangled & dumped their naked bodies.  One was stabbed 70 times.  Another had an ice pick in his head.  Others had cigarette burns.  1969 convicted of assaulting five boys, sentenced to five years.  1975 imprisoned for another rape.  Paroled in 10-78 & began his homo rape & murder spree immediately.  Police caught him while he was sexually assaulting a 15-yr-old boy in his van.  AP 2-23-96  "WGB said the death penalty "sends the wrong message" to America's youth.  Universal Press Syndicate 960507 Gambit Weekly, New Orleans.  He had been on death row for 14 years for 1979?80 murders. Executed 2-23-96 during BEL broadcast; studio lights dimmed.Gay Patrick Kearney: murdered 32, cutting boys up and putting them into trash bags dumped along LA freeways.Gay Thomas Hamilton: murdered 16; Scotland's mass murderer liked little boys in various states of undress. Called Mr. Creepie by some of Dunblane's children. Got even by killing 16 kindergarten children and their teacher and then himself on March 3, 13.  Known by police to be "a risk to children," -USA Today 19990721, page 8a.Gay Andrew Cunanan: murderer of Zgianni Versace, fashion designer. This male prostitute was wanted in connection with four other murders nationwide.Gay Orville Lynn Majors: 60 murderers, charged with six. BEL listener Barbera Brown of Madisonville KY called on the air to say that she was a relative of Majors, and that he was a known homosexual. 6 counts of murder...  One patient died every 156 hours at Vermillion County Hospital in Indiana during his shifts. He was charged with six deaths but is believed to have murdered 60 people.Gay Charles Manson: a prostitute's illegitimate son, spent most of his early life in institutions for offences including theft, pimping, multiple homosexual offenses while incarcerated, and homosexual rape.  When released in 1967, aged 32, he used his criminal contacts to buy drugs and seduce enough young middle-class women to create The Family.Gay Donald Harvey: murdered dozens in a Kentucky hospital, between 37 and as many as 70.Gay Bruce Davis: Charles Manson accomplice who appears on the Associated Press list of the Worst U.S. Serial Killers, who molested and murdered 27 young men and boys in Illinois.Gay Nathaniel Bar-Jonah: homosexual cannibal Bar-Jonah sexually molested boys in Massachusetts and Montana and butchered at least one, a ten year old in Great Falls named Zachary Ramsay.Gay Corll, Henley & Brooks: Dean Arnold Corll's sex ring with Elmer Wayne Henley  and David Owen Brooks murdered and tortured 29 men and boys in Texas.Gay Juan Corona: murdered 25 migrant workers and even molested their corpses.Gay Richard Speck: murdered 8 nursing students, bragged about it on videotape showing him having sex with an inmate and bragging about the many inmates he had sodomized.  Died of a heart attack in 1991.Gay Bruce McArthur: A landscaper and well-known homosexual will be eligible to apply for parole in the year 2219 A.D., exactly two centuries after being sentenced for murderering and dismembering eight men whose remains he then mixed into the soil for potted plants.Gay Wayne Williams: in Atlanta from 1979-1981 killed black boys, thought to be a racist, but turned out to be a black homosexual.Gay Henry Lee Lucas: murdered thee people including his mother and falsely confessed to many others. According to transvestite Ottis Toole, they were homosexual partners, as reported by American Justice, "Myth of a Serial killer: The Henry Lee Lucas Story", episode 150.Gay Ottis Toole: a transvestite according to American Justice (episode 150) and he was a partner of Henry Lee Lucas, and bragged about murders in interviews. Toole was a rapist and a claimed cannibal, convicted for 3 murders and confessed to 4 others before his death, and he was still a suspect for other unsolved killings.Gay Frank Davis: killed two youths on a camping trip with an ax in 1983 and almost killed two others, had his death sentence commuted to a 120-year prison term.  Murders in Kingsford Heights.  "Davis killed the teens after sexually molesting them.  Darrin Reed, 14 and Jeffrey Lopez, 15 were killed and two others were left for dead but survived...  Davis argued he was sexually abused as an adolescent at Beatty mental hospital...  he was forced to perform homosexual acts, as an adolescent, with the older inmates...  This ‘affected Davis' sexual identity,' his lawyers said." Of course, homosexual men reproduce by molesting boys.Gay Stephen Port killed at least four young men raping them as they were dying and sexually assaulted at least seven other men.Gay Jürgen Bartsch: this German homosexual murdered four boys between ages 8 and 13 and tried to kill another.Gay Gary Ray Bowles: preyed on older men and murdered six, homosexuals like himself, and was executed in Florida in 2019.Gay Robert Berdella: kidnapped, raped, tortured, and murdered at least six men in Kansas City, Missouri.Gay Randy Kraft: raped, tortured, mutilated and murdered at least 16 young men, mostly in California.Gay Dennis Nilsen: Scottish serial killer and necrophiliac who murdered at least 12 young men in London, England.Gay Stephen Port: Grindr homosexual app serial killer drugged and murdered four young men in England.Gay Ronald Dominique: raped and murdered at least 23 men, many of whom he found in Louisiana's "gay" bars.Gay Larry Eyler: murdered 22 young men and boys including a 15-year-old whom he then dismembered.Gay Arthur Bishop: this child molester and consumer of child pornography (the distribution of which the ACLU has supported) murdered five young boys.Gay Daniel Conahan: this serial killer was convicted of one and linked to more than a dozen murders of homosexual men.Gay Herb Baumeister: murdered at least 20 men with 11 of their corpses found buried on his Indiana property.Gay Joseph Duncan: convicted of murdering five, confessed to two others and to raping many young boys.Gay Vaughn Greenwood: this homosexual serial killer, known as the Skid Row Slasher, murdered 11 men.Gay William MacDonald: As Australia's first serial killer and yet only one of the millions of homosexual Stockholm Syndrome sufferers who were kidnapped and raped into the lifestyle, MacDonald murdered five people.Gay Michael Lupo: the sadistic Italian homosexual murdered four men in London and mutilated their corpses.Gay David Villarreal: brutally murdered five men in Texas from ages 18 to 78.Gay Carl Panzram: serial rapist executed at Leavenworth confessed to sodomizing and murdering many boys and men.Gay Aileen Wuornos: the prostitute who murdered seven johns.Gay Black Doodler: murdered five and possibly 11 more, homosexuals he picked up in San Francisco bars.Gay John Joubert: former Boy Scout leader said he enjoyed the "power and domination" of killing.  He was executed in the electric chair early July 17, 1996 for murdering two boys in 1983.  Joubert repeatedly stabbed and slashed Danny Jo Eberle, 13, and Christopher Walden, 12.  He also was convicted of stabbing and strangling a boy in Maine. -South Bend Tribune, IN wire report, p. A6 * The Pink Swastika: On a related program, Homosexuals Ran the NAZI Party, Bob Enyart interviewed Kevin Abrams, co-author of The Pink Swastika. That research-driven book provides extensive, carefully documented evidence from many primary sources and mainstream secondary historical sources that many of those running Nazi Germany, including Hitler, were homosexuals. Of course, those in rebellion against God have an easy way (for now) of just dismissing the truth. In this case, even primary historical sources are irrelevant to them, just as they dismiss the NAZI's own testimony regarding the centrality of the theory of evolution to their views. Instead, even though the German National Socialists tried to take Christ out of Christmas, unbelievers who reject the Darwinist and homosexual influence on the NAZIs instead insist that they were Christians. Right. * Homosexual Serial Killers: In America, the FBI defines a mass murderer as someone who kills four or more people and a serial killer as someone who kills three or more. So likewise in England, the media refers to:- Gay Steven Grieveson: as the "Gay serial killer" who murdered three teenage boys.- Gay Allan Grimson: the British homosexual convicted of murdering two men and suspected of killing up to possibly 20 others. * Dishonorable Mentions- Gay Niels Hoegel: "Nurse kills 100 patients" say the headlines. From the known demographics of such crimes, we immediately presume that the nurse is a male and a homosexual. The evidence that Niels Hoegel is a homosexual is that the media has reported nothing of his personal life. Of course, if he were a leader in his church, that would be in the headlines. But if he's a homosexual (or a Muslim for that matter) that detail would be buried or not at all reported.- Gay Anthony Morley: A gay chef murdered his partner, cut out part of his leg, seasoned it with herbs and fried it, a British court heard. Anthony Morley, 35, chewed one of the pieces before throwing it into his kitchen trash. Morley is a former holder of the Mr. Gay UK title. - Gay Aaron McKinney was being pimped alongside Matthew Shephard, with whom he occasionally had unnatural physical relations, before he and Russell Henderson murdered Shepherd over drugs, a crime that was not the homophobic attack that McKinney played it as and was then recklessly promoted worldwide by the media.- The Doodler: Five San Francisco homosexuals were murdered and others assaulted in 1974 by a man known as "The Doodler" who will, with high likelihood, turn out to be himself a homosexual.- Gay Cop Killer Matthew Riehl: Colorado's pot-smoking homosexual Matthew Riehl tried to kill five but shot four and killed one officer. * Bible Verses Against Homosexuality: Newsweek's Lisa Miller was caught red-handed intentionally misrepresenting the Bible and claiming that it does not speak out against lesbianism. Bob Enyart confronted Miller on air and then she was likewise confronted in person when speaking in New York City at Dinesh D'souza's King's College during the Q&A by a student and BEL listener. New Testament: 1 Timothy 1:9-10 "the law is not made for a righteous person, but for... the unholy and profane, for murderers... for fornicators, for sodomites, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers ["Thou shall not bear false witness"]... 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 "...the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God... Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous [lusting for what you must not have], nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners..." Romans 1:26-27 "...vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful..." And as Jesus taught in Mark 10:6 and quoting Genesis, that "from the beginning of the creation, God 'made them male and female.'" And in Mark 7:21 "out of the heart of men proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual immorality, murders..." And Matthew 23:23 "Woe to you... for you... have neglected the weightier matters of the law" [and the lesser] and in Matthew 5:18 "Not one jot or one tittle [dotting an i or crossing a t] will pass from the law till all is fulfilled." Old Testament: Leviticus 18:22 "You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination." Leviticus 20:13 "If a man lies with a male as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them." [Tragically, 35 million human beings have died tortured deaths from just one disease out of the many that are the normal consequences of homosexual behavior. Acceptance of homosexual became a curse to these people and their loved ones, though many are in denial about this.] Genesis 19:4-5 "...the men of Sodom, both old and young, all the people from every quarter, surrounded the house. And they called to Lot and said to him, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may know them carnally." The New Testament draws the lesson from God's destruction of that city. Jude 1:7 "Sodom and Gomorrah... having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire." Genesis 2:24 "Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh." As naturally as could be, this verse from the time of the beginning of creation very naturally affirms the two sexes (male and female, father and mother) indicating that a man has both a mother and father, not two fathers or two mothers, providing the natural, healthy context for the Scripture's future disgust with and condemnation of homosexuality.  * Expert on Breast Cancer Abortion Risk: Karen Malec of AbortionBreatCancer.com and Leslie Hanks of Colorado RTL were interviewed by Pro-Life Colorado's Jo Scott. Read the startling press release!* Palin Defends Chemical Abortions: The CBS transcript of Sarah Palin shows: Palin: "absolutely" will fight global warming Palin: evolution "should be taught as an accepted principle" Palin: God's hand in creation should not be part of state policy or the curriculum Palin: "as for homosexuality" "I don't know what prayers are worthy of being prayed... I am not going to judge... adult personal relationships" Palin: personally against the Morning After Pill but it should not be illegal Palin: on abortion for rape, she would 'counsel' for life, but never support jail Palin: a pro-life vice president doesn't make laws, so her beliefs are not relevant* McCain Lies to Christians, Kills Kids: Please see American Right To Life's powerful press release about Dr. Dobson violating his pledge made invoking God! John McCain funds the killing of countless children for example by voting to allocate monies on Oct. 27, 2005 for tax-funded surgical abortion if the baby's father is a criminal, that is, a rapist. See McCain's Yea vote to authorized funding for surgical abortion to kill an unborn child whose father is a criminal, "if the pregnancy is the result of an act of rape or incest." Also he votes millions to foreign and domestic abortion providers including Planned Parenthood and one week after Rudi Giuliani dropped out of the race, Republicans for Choice endorsed McCain. Today's Resource: Watch Bob quickly unravel Terry's red herring claim, that homosexuals can be righteous Christians. In the BEL Terry's Call DVD (or download), see a series of startling, and then heart warming phone calls, Terry is lead to the Lord shortly before his death from AIDS.  

This is the Story of Matthew Shephard and the gay hate crime that he went through. Eve S Adams author Audible --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/crimetheories/support

Cathy Renna has been a voice in the LGBTQ+ community for many years working with countless organizations of all sizes to ensure a variety of voices in the LGBTQ+ community are heard. She worked with the Matthew Shephard foundation for years. She spent 14 years at GLAAD. She also helped coordinate the coverage of the World Pride celebration in New York City. In 2020 she became th Communications Director of the National LGBTQ Task Force. She is not new to the Task Force having worked as a consultant for the Creating Change conferences for many years and as interim Communications Director. Renna shares how the organization has pivoted to continue to represent the LGBTQ+ during these challenging times not only with the Conference but internally as it prepares for a leadership transition as Kierra Johnson succeeds current Executive Director Rea Carey. it is also preparing for its first virtual conference with Creating Change 2021. The Conference will be held virtually from January 28th – 31st. The theme of this year’s conference is “The Power of You” and features 16 day-long institutes, 48 workshops and caucus session. The opening keynote address will be delivered by activist and actress Dominique Jackson. The closing address will be by author, Black-feminist and women’s rights activist Adrienne Maire Brown. Performances by Big Freedia “The Queen of Bounce” and Latina comic Sandra Valls are just part of the scheduled entertainment

Ten years prior to the brutal slaying in an empty field of Matthew Shephard, there was the murder of Gordon Church in Utah. website: http://beyondtherainbowpodcast.comPromo by: The True Crime WitchProud member of The Oracl3 NetworkIntro: Black Moons by the 126ersOutro: Subtle Betrayal by SYBSResources:http://missing.sacp.ca/person?person=160-64a8aacbhttps://reginapolice.ca/resources/missing-persons/brandy-rene-wesaquate/https://www.thespectrum.com/story/news/local/cedar-city/2016/12/29/28-years-later-story-gordon-church-and-his-killers/95768206/https://www.qsaltlake.com/news/2009/11/19/the-murder-of-gordon-church/#:~:text=Gordon%20Ray%20Church%20was%20born%20Sept.%2014,%201960,big%20heart%20and%20a%20great%20sense%20of%20humor.%E2%80%9Dhttps://law.justia.com/cases/utah/supreme-court/1993/900041.htmlhttps://www.deseret.com/1990/3/15/18851421/wood-is-sentenced-to-life-in-prisonhttps://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=55427626&itype=CMSID

Cathedrals have a distinctive capacity and calling to bring people of all spiritual and political backgrounds together to pray, mourn, learn and act in times of crisis and change. Dean Malcolm Clemens Young will talk with Dean Hollerith of Washington National Cathedral, the second-largest Episcopal cathedral in the United States and seat of the bishop of Washington. Washington National Cathedral serves as a spiritual home for the nation, from holding Inaugural Prayer Services and presidential funerals to interring the ashes of Matthew Shephard. Dean Hollerith has reoriented WNC toward radical welcome and hospitality, with a particular focus on racial reconciliation and outreach to the nation's veterans. Dean Young and Dean Hollerith will reflect together on a cathedral's unique role in a time of crisis.

The boys discuss the raid on Harper's Magazine, talk about the building of the Statue of Liberty, and recognize the enactment of the Matthew Shephard and James Byrd Jr. hate crimes prevention act.

Spencer and Chris discuss the Murder of Travis Alexander and the Trial of Jodi Arias, Share their coming out stories, and Talk about the Murder of Matthew Shephard.

Först och främst: Den 30 november gör vi podden live för första gången! Biljetter hittar du genom att söka på Mord Mot Mord på Billetto, skynda, pga finns inte så många!I veckans avsnitt berättar Karin Londré om det vidriga mordet på Matthew Shephard, som fick hela USA att prata om hatbrott mot homosexuella. Anna Sandell pratar om klassiska och extremt läskiga fallet Wineville Chicken Coop Murders, där Gordon Stewart Northcott gjorde kidnappningar, tortyr och mord till en familjeaffär.Mord Mot Mord-lyssnare får en månad gratis på Nextory! Gå till nextory.com/kampanj och skriv in kampanjkoden Mordmotmord, så kan du läsa och lyssna på massor av böcker och stöttar samtidigt podden! Veckans Nextory-tips är Dom kallar mig Solvallamördaren och Dagbok från Kvinnofängelset.Länkar och bilder som är relevanta för dagens avsnitt publiceras i Facebookgruppen Mord Mot Mord Podcast. Önska fall på Instagram, skriv till @karinlondre eller @sandellanna. Mord Mot Mord är en vanlig snackig podd, fast om mord. Det är lättsamt prat i ett försök att hantera världens värsta ämne.

David Hodorowski talks about his first kiss with a guy based on a dare, moving in with his first boyfriend immediately and his supportive mother going with him to a Matthew Shephard memorial. 

We have a room full of guests this morning from Mira Coast High School to tell us about their upcoming production of The Laramie Project. The Laramie Project is an emotionally riveting drama which centers on the death of gay college student, Matthew Shephard, and how his murder affected his community and sent ripple effects across the nation. The Laramie Project is playing November 2nd-10th in Mira Costa's Small Theater located at 1401 Artesia Boulevard in Manhattan Beach and you can purchase tickets at http://www.miracostadramaboosters.org/. Our guests are Director Drama teacher, Jonathan Westerberg and students Bryson Ehrhard, Bella McDaniel, Kira Randolph, Travers Tobis, Megan Yeh, and Sofia Fontaine. =+=+=+=+=+=+ To Find Out More about the two show hosts of The South Bay Show read on: Jackie Balestra features a comprehensive selection of things to do, places to go and people to know in the South Bay.to learn more visit http://www.SouthbayByJackie.com To Find Out More about Joe Terry visit https://www.MasternodeConsulting.com/about What's Happening in the South Bay, Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach, Redondo Beach, The South Bay Show, Los Angeles, California, Current Events, Calendar, Torrance, El Segundo, Palos Verdes

Victim of violent gay-bashing, Matthew Shepard dies in Laramie, Wyoming. Two male thugs with a hatred for gay men lured Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old gay freshman at the University of Wyoming, from Laramie, Wyoming’s Fireside Bar & Lounge. They tortured and beat him, then left him tied to a wooden fence in the October cold. A cyclist who spotted the 105 - pound, five-foot-two student 18 hours later, initially thought he was seeing a scarecrow. Rushed to a hospital, Shepard caught the attention of the American media, and soon vigils were in force around the world, especially in the U.S. Sadly, he died on October 12, 1998. Many well-wishers attended his funeral, but so did members of extremist religious groups, who held up signs with messages like “God hates fags.” Shepard’s parents established the Matthew Shepard Foundation, and his mother, Judy, still travels the world promoting hate-crimes legislation and tolerance. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In 2015 I had the chance to interview Judy and Dennis Shephard, parents of Matthew Shephard and founders of the Matthew Shephard Foundation. They were in Toronto to receive the International Icon Award from the Inspire Awards, and we talked about how they created a legacy for their son after his brutal murder. This amazing couple tells me about why we all need to support kids, how a hug from Judy can change a kid's life, and how we could all do better. Find out more at www.matthewshepard.org and follow on Twitter and Instagram @mattshepardfdn

Electoral Politics in IOWA! On this episode of State of Belief, Interfaith Alliance’s weekly radio show and podcast, Rev. Welton Gaddy takes a closer look at electoral politics through the lens of the upcoming caucuses in Iowa, focusing on how local organizations are attempting to prepare for them. Donna Red Wing, executive director of OneIowa, the state’s leading LGBT organization, joins us to address her advocacy work in Iowa in the context of the caucuses, as well as her recent meeting with President Obama. Later, Rabbi and author Jay Michaelson will speak about his brand new book The Gate of Tears: Sadness and the Spiritual Path, and will offer some advice regarding living a better life. And, finally, we’ll take a look back in our archives and listen to part of Welton’s 2007 interview with the late Senator Edward Kennedy, followed by a conversation with Judy Shephard, mother of Matthew Shephard, who appeared on the show just weeks before the passage of the Matthew Shephard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, a historic piece of legislation that Senator Kennedy advocated for before his death. Iowa Caucuses Enter the National Spotlight The Iowa Caucuses are just months away, and are the first real- life test for presidential candidates as they prepare for the general election later in 2016. Traditionally, Iowa gets a significant amount of national media attention around the time of the caucus, accompanied by visits from the candidates themselves. OneIowa, the state’s leading LGBT organization, takes advantage of this spotlight every year to promote its advocacy work. Executive director Donna Red Wing has been closely following these electoral politics as the Iowa caucuses near, and recently met with President Obama. Donna joins our show to discuss the importance of her work in Iowa, and the nature of Iowa voters. Rabbi Jay Michaelson’s new book offers a fresh perspective on spirituality and happiness The work of Rabbi Jay Michaelson has been discussed a number of times on State of Belief. Fortunately for us, Jay has been willing to unveil a number of books from his diverse body of work on our show, and has an exciting new perspective to share in his latest work The Gate of Tears: Sadness and the Spiritual Path, which has been called, “A Stunning antidote to the plethora of ‘get happy’ guides.” Today on the show Jay will discuss his new book, and will offer his thoughts on the relationship between happiness and spirituality in our everyday lives. Tune in to hear Jay’s enlightening perspective on these topics! A Look Back: An Interview with Senator Ted Kennedy As we get closer to the 10th anniversary of State of Belief, we are revisiting some of our favorite interviews. This week, we rewind to a powerful interview with the late Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts.  In the beginning of October 2007, the Senator appeared on this program as part of his long-term advocacy for a federal hate crimes law. It was less than a year later that Ted Kennedy was diagnosed with an incurable brain tumor. Senator Kennedy was a tireless fighter for a federal Hate Crimes Act. The final time that he was able to sponsor this legislation in 2009, he lived to see its passage in the Senate – but passed away before President Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act into law on October 25, 2009. Just weeks before that historic moment, Judy Shepard, the mother of Matthew Shepard was on State of Belief, and you’ll hear part of that October 3, 2009 conversation.

Matthew Shephard of the Xerces Society on attracting native pollinators to your garden, and helping them to thrive there.