October MourningBy: Leslea Newman A masterful poetic exploration of the impact of Matthew Shepards murder on the world. On the night of October 6, 1998, a gay twenty one year old college student named Matthew Shepard was kidnapped from a Wyoming bar by two young men, savagely beaten, tied to a remote fence, and left to die. Gay Awareness Week was beginning at the University of Wyoming, and the keynote speaker was Lesla Newman, discussing her book Heather Has Two