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Matthew Wayne Shepard (December 1, 1976 – October 12, 1998) was an American student at the University of Wyoming who was beaten, tortured, and left to die near Laramie on October 6, 1998. [1]
The Act is named after Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. [6] Shepard was a student who was tortured and murdered in 1998 near Laramie, Wyoming. The attack was widely reported due to him being gay, and the trial employed a gay panic defense.
A pair of Matthew Shepard’s sandals are displayed at the White House as part of the commemoration of LGBTQ+ Pride Month on June 25, 2021 in Washington (Getty Images) I was 11 when they murdered ...
Published by Steerforth in 2013, the book is an investigation into the murder of Matthew Shepard. Jimenez was the producer of a 2004 20/20 news program about the Shepard's murder. [ 2 ] The book discusses the case and argues that the crime was not a hate crime based on Shepherd's sexual orientation , but that he was a methamphetamine dealer who ...
Shepard's murder was, without a doubt, an act of hate and violence. But the latter part of Biden's statement—that his murder was spurred by homophobic animus—is the most important.
The brutal 1998 murder of gay University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard sparked an outcry that paved the way for broader LGBT+ rights and hate crime legislation across the US. But as the 25th ...
Jimenez first visited Laramie shortly after the murder, planning to write a screenplay and believing that the murder was a straightforward homophobic killing. [20] Jimenez spent 13 years researching the murder, and came to the conclusion that Matthew and one of the men convicted of his murder were involved in the illegal trade in crystal meth .
Due out in October, the Investigation Discovery special takes an in-depth look at the 21-year-old's tragic death and its impact on the LGBTQ rights movement.