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Judy Shepard. Matthew Wayne Shepard (December 1, 1976 – October 12, 1998) was a gay 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 ] He was taken by rescuers to Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins, Colorado, where he died six days later from severe ...
October 12, 2023 at 4:56 AM. 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 ...
Due out in October, the Investigation Discovery special takes an in-depth look at the 21-year-old's tragic death and its impact on the LGBTQ rights movement.
Ahead of the 25th anniversary of Matthew Shepard’s tragic death, a new documentary has been announced to honor the posthumous impact made by the gay college student, who died after being ...
Cultural depictions of Matthew Shepard include notable films, musical works, novels, plays, and other works inspired by the 1998 Matthew Shepard murder, investigation, and resulting interest the case brought to the topic of hate crime. The best known is the stage play The Laramie Project, which was adapted into an HBO movie of the same name.
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). Conceived as a response to the murders of Matthew Shepard and ...
But the myth has continued to persist, as they sometimes do when in service of what is seen as the greater good. "25 years after Matthew Shepard's death," the A.P. noted in a piece this morning ...
Yet "Considering Matthew Shepard," based on the life and death of a gay Wyoming student, has worked miraculously in small towns with community and college choirs as well. Some perform a shortened ...