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.
Contents:
- THE TTH BEHD AMERI’S MOST FAMO GAY-HATE MURR
- MATTHEW SHEPARD: THE LEGACY OF A GAY LLEGE STUNT 20 YEARS AFTER HIS BTAL MURR
- MATTHEW SHEPARD NOT MURRED FOR BEG GAY, NEW BOOK CLAIMS
- IT’S STILL DANGERO TO BE GAY WYOMG
THE TTH BEHD AMERI’S MOST FAMO GAY-HATE MURR
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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.
MATTHEW SHEPARD: THE LEGACY OF A GAY LLEGE STUNT 20 YEARS AFTER HIS BTAL MURR
Matthew Shepard was abducted, beaten and killed 20 years ago bee he was gay. * gay guy killed in wyoming *
"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.
MATTHEW SHEPARD NOT MURRED FOR BEG GAY, NEW BOOK CLAIMS
LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — 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 killed in wyoming *
Attus agast homosexualy persist Wyomg, but LGTBQ acceptance has advanced, said Jason Marsn, executive director of the Denver-based Matthew Shepard Foundatn.
IT’S STILL DANGERO TO BE GAY WYOMG
Universy of Wyomg stunt Matthew Shepard, who was openly gay, was btally beaten October 1998 by Aaron McKney and Rsell Henrson. Shepard died several days later. The cint received ternatnal media verage and ntu to spark ntroversy about hate crim. Shepard’s parents, Judy and Dennis, tablished a foundatn Matthew’s name, which ntu s pro-LGBT tnal work today. * gay guy killed in wyoming *
"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. 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 1998 torture and murr of gay stunt Matthew Shepard Laramie, Wyomg, was a turng pot for gay rights the Uned Stat, promptg outrage, sorrow and activism. His murrers were both given nsecutive life sentenc, although they weren’t charged wh a hate crime. * gay guy killed in wyoming *
The horrific killg of Matthew Shepard 1998 is wily seen as one of the worst anti-gay hate crim Amerin history.
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 guy killed in wyoming *
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.