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Ten years after the Matthew Shepard murder, the
small university town of Laramie, Wyoming, struggles against its label as the
hate crime capital of the nation. The university has an improved motto,
"New Thinking," a symposium on social justice, and mandatory
diversity training. But when Christian, a failed novelist with a murky past and
a talent for upsetting the apple cart arrives on the scene, he discovers a
campus community driven by fear, where taking offense is de rigueur and
accusations of intolerance are a form of professional survival. Not only must
he deal with the Chekhovian world of academia but must also confront his own
homophobic tendencies when he discovers that his new teaching assistant is gay.
The ÒMÓ Word is
not realistic – often two realities run at once.