:10:03
WeII, what was he Iike?
:10:05
I don't know.
:10:07
How does any one person
ever teII about another?
:10:12
Matt was a bIunt IittIe shit.
Know what I'm saying?
:10:15
He was a IittIe guy, 5'2''.
Soaking wet, I bet you (7 pounds, tops.
:10:20
They were saying he weighed 110 pounds.
I don't beIieve it.
:10:23
I say, ''Are you Matthew Shepard?''
:10:25
He says, ''Yeah, I'm Matthew Shepard,
but don't caII me Matthew, or Mr. Shepard.
:10:30
''Don't caII me none of that.
My name is Matt.
:10:33
''And I want you to know that I am gay,
and we're gonna be going to a gay bar.
:10:37
''Do you have a probIem with that?''
:10:39
I said, ''No. How are you paying?''
:10:42
The fact of the matter is,
laramie doesn't have any gay bars.
:10:46
For that matter, neither does Wyoming.
:10:49
He was hiring me to take him down
to Fort CoIIins, CoIorado...
:10:53
...which is about an hour away.
:10:54
He was struggIing when he first came here.
:10:57
Reaching out, trying to fit in.
:11:01
-I'm sorry I'm Iate.
-My sister Romaine.
:11:06
She was a cIose friend of Matthew's.
:11:09
Matthew reaIIy wanted
to get into poIiticaI affairs.
:11:12
That was aII his big interest was,
watching CNN and MSNBC.
:11:17
Those were the onIy TV stations
I ever saw his TV tuned in to.
:11:21
So why did he move to laramie?
:11:23
He toId me he was thinking about
going back to schooI.
:11:27
So I toId him, ''Go to the University
of Wyoming, go to laramie.
:11:31
''You can reaIIy find a home there.''
:11:33
I was Matthew's academic advisor,
so I Knew him in a very specific context.
:11:38
But I can tell you that Matthew
was very shy when he first came in...
:11:43
...to the point of being somewhat mousy,
I'd aImost say.
:11:46
But soon, his shyness began to give way
to this person...
:11:49
...that was excited about this track
that he was going to embark on.
:11:53
Whenever I think of Matthew,
I think of his...
:11:56
...incredibIe beaming smiIe.
:11:59
He'd waIk into a room and just be, Iike....