The Podcast Series

The following Podcast, Hindsight is 20/20, is drawn from material and interviews originally intended for the longer, 3-part radio series, The Visibility Tapes: Exposing Antigay Violence in America. This page will also feature future radio essays on the topic of gay bashing, antigay prejudice, homophobia, and other stories dealing with issues of gender inequality. Visit this site, often, to look for new radio features.

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Podcast I | Hindsight is 20/20

Members of New York’s Tectonic Theater Project spent more than 18 months in Laramie, Wyoming conducting interviews with anyone willing to speak with them. For Greg Pierotti and the writers of The Laramie Project, there were challenges. Tensions were high because the town’s local residents were trying to come to terms with what is now America’s most well-known antigay hate crime. Dave O’Malley’s investigation into the killing indicated that the murder was motivated by homophobic hate because the victim, Matthew Shepard, was gay. But not everybody in town agreed. To make things worse, nearly seven years after the killing, a major Prime-time news magazine arrived in town with an intent to discredit Dave’s “flawed" theory.