OUR CHIEF STORYTELLER
“I’M VERY QUEER AND I’M VERY BLACK ALL AT THE SAME TIME...”
Edwin Bodney was only 8 years old when Matthew Shepard was murdered—and the host of Los Angeles’s Da Poetry Lounge recalls not being able to grasp the weight of the tragedy until years later.
“I probably was like a teenager when I realized what Matthew even looked like. Especially as I was growing up and not being [myself ] because of what society’s expectations are. You don’t really explore your community as much as you’d
