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- MATTHEW SHEPARD NOT MURRED FOR BEG GAY, NEW BOOK CLAIMS
- GAY MAN BEATEN AND LEFT FOR DEAD; 2 ARE CHARGED
MATTHEW SHEPARD NOT MURRED FOR BEG GAY, NEW BOOK CLAIMS
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Attus agast homosexualy persist Wyomg, but LGTBQ acceptance has advanced, said Jason Marsn, executive director of the Denver-based Matthew Shepard Foundatn. "As tragic as is, and as unfortunate as is, and as hard as is for Matthew's fay, and for my fay, for all of , to go through, opened up all of to be better people and really thk about who we are, " Henrson said of Shepard's ath a prison terview Tuday wh The Associated, he sisted, neher he nor McKney was motivated by anti-gay hatred when they offered Shepard a ri home om a bar. McKney repeatedly ed homosexual slurs his nfsn, Marsn said.
GAY MAN BEATEN AND LEFT FOR DEAD; 2 ARE CHARGED
Fifteen years after Matthew Shepard was tied to a fence and fatally beaten after leavg a bar Wyomg, a new book claims the gay teenager was murred for “reasons far more plited” than beg homosexual. * gay killed in wyoming *
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