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Matthew Wayne Shepard (December 1, 1976 – October 12, 1998) was an American student at the University of Wyoming who was beaten, tortured, and left to die near Laramie on October 6, 1998. [1]
It has been 25 years since the body of Matthew Shepard was discovered in Laramie, Wyoming. The gay college student had been tied to a fence post, tortured and left to die. The murder drew national ...
Shepard's murder was, without a doubt, an act of hate and violence. ... of what is seen as the greater good. "25 years after Matthew Shepard's death," the A.P. noted in a piece ... told Wyoming's ...
The hate that Matthew’s murder spotlighted still exists today. Just last year, five people were killed by a far-right gunman in an anti-LGBTQ attack on a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
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 ...
The song has a reference to Matthew Shepard's murder. 1999: "Pistol Whipped" - The Blamed wrote and recorded this condemnation of Shepard's murderers. From their 1999 album "Forever". [29] 2000: "Into the Sun" – Jann Arden recorded the song "Into the Sun," listing Shepard among "decent men" who had been killed, for her 2000 album Blood Red ...
Judy and Dennis Shepard reflect on their son Matthew Shepard's legacy and ... Matthew, a 21-year-old student at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, went to an LGBTQ resource group meeting to ...
Unidentified murder victims in Wyoming (1 P) ... Death of Allen Ross; S. Matthew Shepard; Y. Marcela Hope Yellowbear