
Unfinished Lives
Reviving the Memories of LGBTQ Hate Crimes Victims
Stephen V. Sprinkle(Author)
Wipf & Stock Publishers
Published on 20. January 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
332 pages
978-1-60899-811-1 (ISBN)
Description
Over 13,000 Americans have been murdered in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries because of their sexual orientation and gender presentation. In Unfinished Lives: Reviving the Memory of LGBTQ Hate Crimes Victims, Stephen Sprinkle puts a human face on the outrage and loss suffered when people die from anti-gay hatred. Beginning with new developments in the story of Matthew Shepard's murder in Laramie, Wyoming, Sprinkle tells the stories of fourteen representative LGBTQ victims whose lives were savagely cut short due to homophobia and transphobia. These are stories about people who could be your neighbor, classmate, co-worker, or friend-real, everyday people whose love was foreclosed, relationships brutally terminated, and future contributions stolen from us by outrageous, irrational hatred.
Told lovingly yet unflinchingly, Unfinished Lives lifts the stories of these LGBTQ victims from undeserved obscurity, allowing their memory to live again. Relying on personal interviews and visits to the locations where these people lived, loved, and died, Sprinkle records the raw emotions, powerful movements for social change, and unexpectedly hopeful communities that arise from the ruins of those people whose only ""offense"" was to live as they were born to be.
Part portraiture, part crime narrative, and part ethnography, Unfinished Lives is poised to change the conversation on hate crimes in the United States.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Eugene
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
1, black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
482 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-60899-811-1 (9781608998111)
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01/2011
Wipf and Stock Publishers
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Person
Stephen V. Sprinkle is Associate Professor of Practical Theology, and Director of Field Education and Supervised Ministry at Brite Divinity School, Fort Worth, Texas. He is the first openly gay scholar to be tenured in the school's history.