2020 Damn These Heels Queer Film Festival: Dog Valley Q&A

The 1988 kidnapping, rape and murder of 28-year-old gay Southern Utah University student Gordon Church equals in brutality the better-known Matthew Shepard killing in Wyoming ten years later. While the earlier crime occurred at a time before social media might have given it instant national notoriety, Church’s violent death at the hands of young parolees Michael Archuleta and Lance Conway Wood had its own impact.