October Mourning Persuasive Speech

“So I would like to encourage every single one of you in this room to join with me in showing the world that trans is beautiful in terms of how we cover trans stories and diverse stories in general,” said Laverne Cox a lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender advocate. She's a well known advocate for the LGBT. At the Fashion Media Awards she gave a show stopping speech on being transgender is beautiful thing. “There are so many different kinds of beauty in the world that I want to celebrate and I know you want to celebrate it, too,” said Laverne as her heartfelt closing message to the world. Laverne Cox, being a transgender herself, understands the daily struggle the LGBT people go through. In October Mourning, by Leslea Newman, cruel acts like the violent beating and murder of a gay college student, Matthew Shepard, can affect almost everyone in the community and sometimes even the country. That is exactly what Matthew Shepard's story did, affect the whole country. The message Matthew's story sends is we are all people regardless of our religion, sexual preference or race.
In this case Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson were racially prejudice against men that were gay. Aaron said “I would say it wasn't a hate crime. All I wanted to do was beat him up and rob him,”(74). The men appeared to have their morals all wrong. They don't realize but what they did to Matthew, the cruelty and violence, was a prime example of racial prejudice. Racial Prejudice is acting negatively towards another group of people because of their race. Acting negatively towards Matthew Shepard, the gay college student, was an