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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.
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.
News. Science & Tech. Shopping. Sports. Weather. 24/7 ... "Twenty-five years ago today, Matthew Shepard lost his life to a brutal act of hate and violence that shocked our nation and the world ...
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]
President Biden warned Thursday of increasing violence against the LGBTQ community in remarks commemorating the 25th anniversary of the killing of Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old student at the ...
The film is based on the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard. It premiered on MTV on December 10, 2001, and was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding TV Movie or Limited Series. [2] After the broadcast, MTV went dark for 17½ hours while it aired a continuous on-screen scroll listing the names of hundreds of United States hate crime victims.
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 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.