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.
Contents:
- THE TTH BEHD AMERI’S MOST FAMO GAY-HATE MURR
- MATTHEW SHEPARD NOT MURRED FOR BEG GAY, NEW BOOK CLAIMS
- MATTHEW SHEPARD, MURRED GAY STUNT, FALLY LAID TO RT
THE TTH BEHD AMERI’S MOST FAMO GAY-HATE MURR
When two roofg workers beat a young gay man to ath Wyomg 1998, the gome crime quickly reverberated around the U.S. and turned the sandy-haired llege stunt to a powerful symbol of the qut for acceptance and equal rights. * gay guy murdered in wyoming *
The murr of Shepard, a gay Universy of Wyomg stunt, was a watershed moment for gay rights and LGBTQ acceptance the U. – When two roofg workers beat a young gay man to ath Wyomg 1998, the gome crime quickly reverberated around the U.
"The acrimony over Shepard's legacy ns high here, jt as did when anti-gay and gay-rights protters squared off at his funeral Casper. Wyomg remas "eply fensive" about the ia that Shepard was targeted bee he was gay, Burlgame as the Equaly State, Wyomg got s nickname for beg the first to let women vote. Today has fewer women s Legislature than any other state and remas hant to adopt polici to unter anti-gay bias and is among jt five stat — along wh Arkansas, Geia, Indiana and South Carola — that have not passed laws foced on crim motivated by the victim's inty, such as their sexual orientatn.
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.
MATTHEW SHEPARD NOT MURRED FOR BEG GAY, NEW BOOK CLAIMS
The judge prohibed the "gay panic" fense. I'm so, so ashamed I was ever part of this, " Henrson gay rights activist argu that Henrson has paid his du for what he scribed as beg " the wrong place at the wrong time. The horrific killg of Matthew Shepard 1998 is wily seen as one of the worst anti-gay hate crim Amerin history.
They pistol whipped him wh a gun then tied him to a fence eezg ndns and set fire to him before leavg him to attack beme a e célèbre: precipated a natnal backlash agast hyper-macho culture and tac tolerance of homophobia. As a rult of Matthew’s ath, many good thgs have happened for the gay muny. Policians and celebri pledged support and fundg to bat anti-gay hate crime.
The Shepard fay have bee mpaigners for gay rights.
MATTHEW SHEPARD, MURRED GAY STUNT, FALLY LAID TO RT
Jimenez has been acced of beg a revisnist, a cricism ually rerved for extreme rightwg iologu that ny the Holot, and labelled a homophobe. When he started he was nvced that Matthew died at the hands of homophob, but he soon disvered that Matthew’s tragedy began long before the night he was killed.
“This do not make the perfect poster boy for the gay-rights movement, ” says Jimenez.
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