What does the Fence Mean to You: The Laramie Project

My class and I finished reading The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman this past week and my view on not only of the incident in Laramie itself, but on the effect of media in America, homosexuality, peoples hate, peoples hope, and peoples love, have grown to a broader understanding. I now find myself though, fighting what I truly believe to be the most important topics of the Laramie project. To follow my head or my heart? My head likes to swim in all the details of the crime. Was it a hate crime? Was a crime done under meth? Does it really matter is Matthew Shepard was gay? But my heart, on the other hand wants to just feel the pain and love that has happened around the Matthew Shepard case. The impact that Shepard's death around the country, in1998 and now, is quite incredible, and yes their are those who like me, that see mostly the details, and get lost in their much abundance. I do not want to be in that mind set. I wish to point out the other half of the human though, that came out in this great time of grief and confusion in Laramie, and the one train of thought I have chosen to take for now. I believe many people during 1998 began to see the bitterness that any human can have towards another, gay or not. The country as a whole at this time chose to lay down their hate and worries, and decide instead to open their hearts and let the light that this crime has shed, warm dark spots of their own hearts, no matter what the views they hold on the crime.
Right now I feel like those in 1998 that let that light in. I have my own views, and uncertain thoughts on all of Matthew case but right now I choose to let the light in. I can, along with rest of those who know of Matthew's case, let my mind take over later, when time is right. For now, I choose to be part of the peoples love.