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The Meaning of Matthew follows the Shepard family in the days immediately after the crime to see their incapacitated son, kept alive by life support machines; how the Shepards learned of the huge public response, the candlelit vigils and memorial services for their child; and their struggles to navigate the legal system.
Dennis Shepard is the father of Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old student at University of Wyoming who was murdered in October 1998 in what became one of the most high-profiled cases highlighting hate crimes against LGBTQ people. He and his wife, Judy Shepard, are co-founders of the Matthew Shepard Foundation, [1] and advocate for LGBT rights. He ...
In 2009, she published a memoir, The Meaning of Matthew [6] [7] about how her family dealt with his murder, the subsequent court cases, the media coverage, and their work to advance civil rights over the last decade. [2] In May 2009, Shepard met with President Barack Obama, where he promised her he would help pass the Matthew Shepard Act. [8]
The two-hour documentary special “The Matthew Shepard Story: An American Hate Crime” airs Monday, Oct. 9, at 9 p.m. ET on ID (ahead of the 25th anniversary of Shepard’s death on Oct. 12 ...
— The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, signed by then-President Barack Obama in 2009. The act expanded the federal hate crime law to include crimes based on a ...
Matt Shepard (born 1964 or 1965) [1] is an American sportscaster. Shepard was the television play-by-play announcer for the Detroit Tigers on Bally Sports Detroit from 2019 to 2023. He has also covered professional, collegiate and high school sports on both television and radio in Metro Detroit since the 1990s.
The couple founded the Matthew Shepard Foundation, an LGBTQ rights nonprofit, in 1998. “We were getting ready to retire in 2015, and then the election of 2016 occurred,” Dennis said.
The Meaning of Matthew: My Son's Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed is a 2009 memoir about the life of Matthew Shepard, written by his mother, Judy Shepard.The book was published by Hudson Street Press on September 3, 2009, and was featured as a New York Times best-seller for the week of September 27, 2009.