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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]
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 ...
The hate that Matthew’s murder spotlighted still exists today. Just last year, five people were killed by a far-right gunman in an anti-LGBTQ attack on a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
"The week prior, Matthew had been viciously attacked in a horrific anti-gay hate crime and left to die – simply for being himself." Shepard's murder was, without a doubt, an act of hate and ...
In 2013 Jimenez published The Book of Matt, an analysis of the murder of Matthew Shephard. Jimenez first visited Laramie shortly after the murder, planning to write a screenplay and believing that the murder was a straightforward homophobic killing. [ 20 ]
It's been 25 years since Matthew Shepard, a gay 21-year-old University of Wyoming student, died six days after he was savagely beaten by two young men and tied to a remote fence to meet his fate.
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 ...
Romaine Patterson (born March 31, 1978) is an American LGBT rights activist, radio personality, and author.She first received national attention for her activism at the funeral of murdered gay student Matthew Shepard; the two became friends when Shepard moved to Casper, Wyoming to attend college.