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  2. 25 years after Matthew Shepard's death, LGBTQ+ ... - AOL

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    It's been 25 years since Matthew Shepard, a gay 21-year-old University of Wyoming student, died six days after he was savagely beaten by two young men and tied to a remote fence to meet his fate.

  3. Matthew Shepard - Wikipedia

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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 the night of October 6, 1998. [1]

  4. Matthew Shepard's Murder Was Almost Certainly Not an ... - AOL

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    Shepard's murder was, without a doubt, an act of hate and violence. ... with Shepard set to receive a $10,000 shipment of methamphetamine around the time he was killed. Also relevant is that ...

  5. Matthew Shepard's murder still haunts Wyoming after 20 years

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    LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — When two roofing workers beat a young gay man to death in Wyoming in 1998, the gruesome crime quickly reverberated around the U.S. and turned the sandy-haired college ...

  6. Judy Shepard - Wikipedia

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    Judy Shepard (née Peck; born August 15, 1952) is the mother 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-profile cases highlighting hate-crimes against LGBTQ people.

  7. The Meaning of Matthew - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Voices: Matthew Shepard’s brutal murder is still a ... - AOL

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    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.

  9. Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act

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    The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act is a landmark United States federal law, passed on October 22, 2009, [1] and signed into law by President Barack Obama on October 28, 2009, [2] as a rider to the National Defense Authorization Act for 2010 (H.R. 2647).