On Friday, October 2, Doc drove Matthew, who was cautious about drinking and driving, and the young man’s friend Tina Labrie the 70 miles to Fort Collins, Colorado, and back. Doc, a stout 50-year-old man with a beard, gray-black hair slicked back, and cowboy boots, is the owner of Doc’s Class Act Limousine Service, as well as Doc’s Western Village, and most of the town of Bosler-a blink of a place 18 miles north of Laramie consisting of boarded-up storefronts and decaying wooden houses. “I have a problem with people who don’t pay!” The limo driver laughs, remembering-a deep belly laugh. “No, I don’t have a problem with that,” Doc told him. I’m gay and I want to go to a gay bar in Fort Collins.
The first time Doc O’Connor met Matthew Shepard, the 21-year-old University of Wyoming freshman approached Doc’s silver limousine outside a café in downtown Laramie.
