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Contents:

• MATTHEW SHEPARD: THE LEGACY OF A GAY LLEGE STUNT 20 YEARS AFTER HIS BTAL MURR
• GAY UPLE BEATEN AND BLOODIED OUTSI CONNECTICUT GAY BAR
• NEW HAMPSHIRE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE VTIGATG ALLEGED ATTACK ON GAY UPLE
• SLAYG OF GAY MAN NEW YORK BEG VTIGATED AS A POSSIBLE BIASED CINT
• GAY MAN LEFT 'DISGTED' AFTER HOMOPHOBIC ATTACKER IS HAND SPEND SENTENCE
• THE TTH BEHD AMERI’S MOST FAMO GAY-HATE MURR
• GAY MAN BTALLY BEATEN BY STRANGER ON MANHATTAN STREET HATE CRIME
• VIO: GAY MAN SAVAGELY BEATEN UNNSC BY TEXAS SECURY GUARDS
• GAY UPLE BEATEN BY GANG OF 20 MEN AS DOZENS STOOD BY AND DID NOTHG
• FATAL STABBG OF GAY MAN AT GAS STATN BEG VTIGATED AS HATE CRIME
• AN INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL STUNT SAYS CLASSMAT ASSLTED HIM FOR BEG GAY AND SENT A VIO OF THE ATTACK TO HIS MOTHER
• GAY SOWETO MAN BEATEN AND ROBBED BY 'GRDR GANG'
• GAY MAN KILLED, ANOTHER CRILLY JURED GRDR MEETUP

MATTHEW SHEPARD: THE LEGACY OF A GAY LLEGE STUNT 20 YEARS AFTER HIS BTAL MURR

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. 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.

GAY UPLE BEATEN AND BLOODIED OUTSI CONNECTICUT GAY BAR

"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. 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.

NEW HAMPSHIRE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE VTIGATG ALLEGED ATTACK ON GAY UPLE

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. Michael Loccisano/Getty Imag, FILEFor Judy Shepard, one of the bt signs of cultural progrs is seeg Gay Straight Alliance groups rampg up schools.

SLAYG OF GAY MAN NEW YORK BEG VTIGATED AS A POSSIBLE BIASED CINT

In Wyomg, where there's a populatn of jt 500, 000, she said there are 19 Gay Straight Allianc. A gay uple was beaten and bloodied ont of the Connecticut gay bar they own.

A gay uple cuddlg agast the ld the U. Was attacked by three young men yellg homophobic slurs earlier this month, and now the pair are aaid to leave their own home bee one of their alleged attackers liv Miedzwiecki, 30, and Lee Cameron Tssler, 28, of Southhampton were attacked early on the morng of May 2 as they waed for a taxi wh a third iend after visg the Edge nightclub.

GAY MAN LEFT 'DISGTED' AFTER HOMOPHOBIC ATTACKER IS HAND SPEND SENTENCE

Miedzwiecki told the Daily Echo he and Tssler were holdg hands and cuddlg agast the ld when a group of young men approached om across the street yellg homophobic slurs. O’Shae Sibley, who was gay, was attacked outsi a gas statn the Midwood sectn of Brooklyn on Saturday night. “They murred him bee he’s gay, bee he stood up for his iends, ” Otis Pena, one of Sibley’s iends, said a Facebook vio posted after the killg.

Many Republins have sought to monize drag shows, and events have equently been targeted by rightwg New York state senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal, who is gay, said he was “heartbroken and enraged to learn about O’Shae Sibley’s ath”.

“Dpe homophob’ bt efforts, gay joy is not crime, ” Hoylman-Sigal said a tweet. — The New Hampshire Attorney General’s office has joed an vtigatn to an alleged Monday asslt of a gay uple who n a cholate shop a cy along the state’s eastern uple, who both live and operate the Wm.

THE TTH BEHD AMERI’S MOST FAMO GAY-HATE MURR

Poole Confectns shop out of the same buildg Somersworth, reported they were jured an attack by a group of juvenil who shouted homophobic a post on Facebook, William Poole said he was stck on the eye wh a blunt stment and suffered laceratns, bis and stch om the asslt by young people tryg to enter the uple’s send-floor rince.

When nonted on the siwalk, the group shouted homophobic slurs at them, Poole wrote. The ath of O’Shae Sibley, a gay man who was attacked at a Brooklyn gas statn Saturday night, is beg vtigated as a “possible biased cint, ” acrdg to police. I was vered his blood, and I’m holdg his stab wound, and O’Shae was jt tryg to tell people, like, ‘Yo, we may be gay, but we’re not, ’s not llg for all of that.

“They murred him bee he was gay. Lettg people know that, yeah, we might be gay, but we’re jt celebratg my brother’s birthday, ” Pena said, addg, “Happy birthday to me, right?

GAY MAN BTALLY BEATEN BY STRANGER ON MANHATTAN STREET HATE CRIME

Ryan Williams was subjected to a homophobic attack while on his way home om work near Manchter's Gay Village. (SWNS)A gay man who was knocked unnsc a homophobic attack has spoken out after his attacker was spared jail and hand a spend Williams was wh a group of iends when he was acsted by a group of thugs and told “gay is wrong” and “you all need to die” 24-year-old was beaten until he lost nscns and was left unable to sleep for months after the attack, which happened as he walked home om work near Manchter’s Gay Village July 2019. (SWNS)He urged people to speak out if they had been through siar cints, addg: “People thk homophobia isn’t an issue anymore, but thgs like this are still happeng to people jt bee of who they are.

”The urt heard that Williams was wh a iend when they were acsted and subjected to a barrage of sults and homophobic slurs before beg was left unnsc and said he only remembers wakg up the hospal to the sound of his mother speakg to was left wh srs to his face, lips and eyebrows and said doctors told him if he had been punched jt two ch higher he may have died om his juri.

VIO: GAY MAN SAVAGELY BEATEN UNNSC BY TEXAS SECURY GUARDS

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.

GAY UPLE BEATEN BY GANG OF 20 MEN AS DOZENS STOOD BY AND DID NOTHG

The Shepard fay have bee mpaigners for gay rights. 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.

But this is not the Matthew Shepard who beme a celebrated figure for the gay-rights movement Ameri.

FATAL STABBG OF GAY MAN AT GAS STATN BEG VTIGATED AS HATE CRIME

But the town also has a number of mobile home parks at the edg, some more ndown than the eveng of 6 October 1998, Matthew went to the Firi bar, a lol hangout that was purportedly gay-iendly.

It was fairly well known the Laramie muny that McKney wouldn’t be one that was strikg out of a sense of homophobia. They ntacted the Associated Prs and a number of lol gay anisatns that same day.

Stephen Jimenez is an award-wng journalist and gay man.

AN INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL STUNT SAYS CLASSMAT ASSLTED HIM FOR BEG GAY AND SENT A VIO OF THE ATTACK TO HIS MOTHER

So why has he put such time and effort to attemptg to prove that Matthew’s murr was not a hate crime, pecially as has seen him acced of beg an ally to the rightwg Christian fundamentalists who ny the realy of homophobia? “The view was that homophobic rednecks walked to a bar and saw an obvly gay man wh money and targeted him and beat him to ath for that reason, ” says Jimenez.

That plit the origal story of two strangers walkg to a bar and targetg Matthew – someone they did not know – bee he was gay. “Rsell Henrson ed to hang around wh gay people, ” Johnson told me.

GAY SOWETO MAN BEATEN AND ROBBED BY 'GRDR GANG'

“Laramie had a big gay populatn. I knew what people’s sexual orientatn was bee my bt iend’s son was gay. ”The police did not vtigate the killers’ relatnship to the gay days after the attack, on 12 October, Matthew died.

”Dark si: anti-gay prottors at Matthew’s funeral. “The se was ed to highlight the fact of vlence agast gay people, ” Wypijewski told me. ”Wypijewski thks the reason some sectns of the gay muny are so angry about the Jimenez book is obv: “Jimenez has taken away their angel, and there is the reflexive sense that as a muny s sufferg was beg at last regnised.

GAY MAN KILLED, ANOTHER CRILLY JURED GRDR MEETUP

”John Stoltenberg is a gay-rights activist who lived wh the femist wrer Andrea Dwork until her ath 2005.