Matthew Shepard was abducted, beaten and killed 20 years ago bee he was gay.
Contents:
- MATTHEW SHEPARD: THE LEGACY OF A GAY LLEGE STUNT 20 YEARS AFTER HIS BTAL MURR
- MATTHEW SHEPARD FALLY LAID TO RT 20 YEARS AFTER HE WAS KILLED FOR BEG GAY
- MATTHEW SHEPARD NOT MURRED FOR BEG GAY, NEW BOOK CLAIMS
- NEVADA FATHER MURRED SON FOR BEG GAY, FORMER FOSTER MOM CLAIMS
- MAN CHARGED WH KILLG BOY, 10, WHO REPORTEDLY ME OUT AS GAY
MATTHEW SHEPARD: THE LEGACY OF A GAY LLEGE STUNT 20 YEARS AFTER HIS BTAL MURR
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Twenty years ago, Matthew Shepard was a "smart, funny" 21-year-old, no different than any other young man that was an "ordary kid who wanted to make the world a better place, " his parents October 1998, that all changed, when the openly gay llege stunt was abducted, beaten and tied to a fence life end a few days later, and wh me a wispread awarens of the dangers that members of the LGBTQ muny face every day. The homophobic btal killg also served as a talyst for progrs Ameri's laws and the two s that have passed, however, remas batable how far the untry has e sce the shock of that crime.
They later nfsed they had "veloped a roe which they'd pretend to be gay to w Matt's nfince, " Marsn said. (MORE: 'Gay panic' fense still ed vlence s may be banned by new feral bill)McKney h Shepard about 20 tim the head and face wh the end of the pistol, Marsn said, before the two stole Shepard's sho, got their tck and drove back to town.
MATTHEW SHEPARD FALLY LAID TO RT 20 YEARS AFTER HE WAS KILLED FOR BEG GAY
Matthew Shepard was fally laid to rt Friday at the Washgton Natnal Cathedral 20 years after beg killed by two men bee he was gay. * boy killed for being gay *
Agast the gay muny until after he grew up to bee very terted ternatnal human rights, particularly women's rights the Middle East and Asia, and he studied polil science, said Marsn. "He said, 'Mom I'm gay. "Everybody he met, he said, 'Jt to let you know ahead of time, I'm gay, '" Dennis Shepard said.
Agast the gay muny until after he died, " he said. "The natn mournsThe shockg homophobic crime the sparsely-populated state garnered natnal sympathy.
MATTHEW SHEPARD NOT MURRED FOR BEG GAY, NEW BOOK CLAIMS
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. * boy killed for being gay *
A ndlelight vigil is held for Sla gay Wyomg stunt Matthew Shepard, Oct. Members of the Wtboro Baptist Church protted the funeral, picketg wh anti-gay Fred Phelps and his parishners traveled om Kansas to Laramie for the funeral and trial, prottg wh brightly lored signs and spewg hatred. McKney went to trial, and fense attorneys argued his vlent actns were "gay panic" -- a reactn to Shepard makg a sexual advance.
"When the fense gets out there and starts talkg out of, the victim's flt, you know, 'gay panic, '... "The "gay panic" fense is still legal most stat but has been outlawed a few. McKney has cled to speak to ABC News while Henrson did not immediately rpond to a requt for WashgtonShepard's murr shed a light on the spe of feral hate crime laws, which at the time did not clu sexual orientatn or genr gay activists monstrate the streets of North Hollywood to prott agast the ath of Wyomg Universy stunt Mathew Shepard, Oct.
13, Mata/AFP via Getty Imag FILEDemonstrators prott the hate killg of gay stunt Matthew Shepard, Oct. Matthew Shepard was tortured and murred 1998 and was targeted for beg gay, acrdg to wns. "Beyond the feral hate crime law, the years sce Matthew Shepard's ath, among the most substantive legislative ws for the LGBTQ muny were the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell 2010, so gay ary members n serve openly whout fear of beg dismissed, and the legalizatn of same-sex marriage across the untry 2015.
NEVADA FATHER MURRED SON FOR BEG GAY, FORMER FOSTER MOM CLAIMS
Michael Loccisano/Getty Imag, FILEFor Judy Shepard, one of the bt signs of cultural progrs is seeg Gay Straight Alliance groups rampg up schools. In Wyomg, where there's a populatn of jt 500, 000, she said there are 19 Gay Straight Allianc. Matthew Shepard was fally laid to rt Friday at the Washgton Natnal Cathedral 20 years after beg killed by two men bee he was gay.
Gene Robson, the first openly gay prit to be nsecrated a bishop the Epispal Church. 7, 1998, Matthew Shepard, a gay man who attend the Universy of Wyomg, was beaten and left for ad. (AP/David Zalubowski) (AP1999)Fifteen years after Matthew Shepard was tied to a fence and beaten to ath Wyomg, beg a powerful symbol for the gay muny's fight for hate crim legislatn, a new book claims the llege stunt was murred for “reasons far more plited” than beg homosexual.
Stephen Jimenez’s “The Book of Matt: Hidn Tths About the Murr of Matthew Shepard” claims a 13-year vtigatn — cludg trips to Laramie, Wyo., and terviews wh more than 100 sourc — ntradicts police ttimony and natnal nsens that the Universy of Wyomg hman was targeted by Aaron McKney and Rsell Henrson 1998 bee he was gay. “As a gay man, he felt an add moral imperative to tell Matthew’s story.
MAN CHARGED WH KILLG BOY, 10, WHO REPORTEDLY ME OUT AS GAY
His ath, which quickly beme synonymo wh anti-gay hate Ameri, spired several films, a play and feral hate-crime legislatn signed by Print Obama 2009. “Basilly the letter was sayg that the fense raised by Aaron McKney's fense team of 'gay panic' was false and the evince that was ced for that was that Aaron McKney had been a male htler, that he was faiar wh gay guys gay bars, ” Jimenez told the webse. “It mentned at first both Aaron and Rsell, but as the letter went on spoke more about Aaron, mentng that he really did like havg sex wh gay guys, that he wasn't unfaiar wh homosexualy and the gay world.
They said they were motivated by the prospect of robbery to feed a methamphetame bge rather than vlent homophobia.
“It’s not bee me and Aaron had anythg agast gays or any of that, ” Henrson said, addg that he thought if he uld keep McKney drkg that night he’d fet the omo plan.