Synopsis: Over 13,000 Americans have been murdered in the late
twentieth and early twenty-first centuries because of their sexual
orientation and gender presentation. In Unfinished Lives: Reviving
the Memory of LGBTQ Hate Crimes Victims, Stephen Sprinkle puts a
human face on the outrage and loss suffered when people die from
anti-gay hatred. Beginning with new developments in the story of
Matthew Shepard's murder in Laramie, Wyoming, Sprinkle tells the
stories of fourteen representative LGBTQ victims whose lives were
savagely cut short due to homophobia and transphobia. These are
stories about people who could be your neighbor, classmate,
co-worker, or friend - real, everyday people whose love was
foreclosed, relationships brutally terminated, and future
contributions stolen from us by outrageous, irrational hatred. Told
lovingly yet unflinchingly, Unfinished Lives lifts the stories of
these LGBTQ victims from undeserved obscurity, allowing their
memory to live again. Relying on personal interviews and visits to
the locations where these people lived, loved, and died, Sprinkle
records the raw emotions, powerful movements for social change, and
unexpectedly hopeful communities that arise from the ruins of those
people whose only "offense" was to live as they were born to be.
Part portraiture, part crime narrative, and part ethnography,
Unfinished Lives is poised to change the conversation on hate
crimes in the United States. Endorsements: "Unfinished Lives cries
out to be read . . . It speaks to the systematic denigration of
LGBTQ people in the United States . . . and it offers hope that the
cycles of abuse and hatred and violence can be broken-one person,
one family, one community at a time." -from the Foreword by Harry
KnoxDirector of the Religion and Faith ProgramHuman Rights
Campaign, Washington, DC"In telling these 'stories that trouble the
soul' about the hateful murders of fourteen LBGTQ people who were
selected for execution simply because of their non-conforming
sexual orientation and gender presentation, Stephen Sprinkle has
courageously refused to bury the victims in silence or go along
with the cultural amnesia that tries to suggest 'it was all a
mistake' and 'they were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.'
No, anti-gay violence is an intentionally employed weapon of mass
terror, and religion is often its accomplice. With a fierce
determination to honor our dead by telling the truth out loud and
proud, Sprinkle calls the community to take up the queer
theological tasks of, yes, remembering and mourning, but also of
community resistance and organizing to end the violence against us,
against all peoples."-Marvin M. EllisonBangor Theological
Seminaryeditor of Sexuality and the Sacred: Sources for Theological
Reflection"Stephen Sprinkle takes on one of the most profound
questions of our time: When fear and hate and judgment result in
violence and murder of non-gender conforming people, what is the
right response of civil society? While we struggle to find the
answer, he reminds us that the clock is ticking and lives are being
lost. He honors the lives of those who have either been taken from
us or grievously injured by our collective inaction. He labors at
the leading edge of love, healing, and inclusion for all people,
providing 'a walking systemtic intervention' where injustice
resides."-Cindi LoveExecutive Director of SoulforceMember of the
Religion and Faith ProgramHuman Rights Campaign, Washington,
DCAuthor Bio: Stephen V. Sprinkle is Associate Professor of
Practical Theology, and Director of Field Education and Supervised
Ministry at Brite Divinity School, Fort Worth, Texas. He is the
first openly gay scholar to be tenured in the school's history.
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