Television
In the episode "A Private Life" of the HBO television series Six Feet Under, a gay man is brutally murdered in a way that mirrors Matthew Shepard's death.
Titus, a dark sitcom from Fox, had Christopher Titus mentioning the death of Shepard in the season three episode "Tommy`s Not Gay". He was dealing with Tommy, whose father was beaten by because of his homosexuality.
The Matthew Shepard incident and the subsequent introduction of the Matthew Shepard Act inspired a story arc which spanned several episodes in the first season of The West Wing.
Read more about this topic: Cultural Depictions Of Matthew Shepard
Famous quotes containing the word television:
“So by all means let’s have a television show quick and long, even if the commercial has to be delivered by a man in a white coat with a stethoscope hanging around his neck, selling ergot pills. After all the public is entitled to what it wants, isn’t it? The Romans knew that and even they lasted four hundred years after they started to putrefy.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)
“What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.”
—Salvador Dali (1904–1989)
“The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.”
—Frederic Raphael (b. 1931)