Contents:
- THE TTH BEHD AMERI’S MOST FAMO GAY-HATE MURR
- 13 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY ATH
- MAP SHOWS WHERE IT’S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY – 30 YEARS SCE WHO DECLASSIFIED HOMOSEXUALY AS DISEASE
THE TTH BEHD AMERI’S MOST FAMO GAY-HATE MURR
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.
13 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY ATH
Jimenez has been acced of beg a revisnist, a cricism ually rerved for extreme rightwg iologu that ny the Holot, and labelled a homophobe.
MAP SHOWS WHERE IT’S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY – 30 YEARS SCE WHO DECLASSIFIED HOMOSEXUALY AS DISEASE
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. But this is not the Matthew Shepard who beme a celebrated figure for the gay-rights movement Ameri.