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Matthew Shepard was a gay American student who was beaten and killed in 1998 near Laramie, Wyoming. His case sparked national and international attention to hate crime legislation and LGBT rights activism.
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 Book of Matt is a book by Stephen Jimenez.Published by Steerforth in 2013, the book is an investigation into the murder of Matthew Shepard.It concludes that the crime was not a hate crime based on Shepherd's sexual orientation, but that he was a methamphetamine dealer who knew his killers, and it was a drug transaction gone awry.
"The week prior, Matthew had been viciously attacked in a horrific anti-gay hate crime and left to die – simply for being himself." Shepard's murder was, without a doubt, an act of hate and ...
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.
James Byrd Jr. was an African American man who was dragged to death by three white men, two of whom were avowed white supremacists, in Jasper, Texas, in 1998. The murder was a hate crime that led to the passage of federal and state laws against hate crimes and the execution of two of the perpetrators.
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 ...
Virginia Foxx is a Republican U.S. representative from North Carolina's 5th congressional district since 2005. She is the chair of the House Education Committee and a former secretary of the House Republican Conference.