Judy and Dennis Shepard were sound asleep when they got the call. It was 5 a.m. in Saudi Arabia, where the Shepards were living while Dennis worked as an oil company safety engineer. Groggy with sleep ...

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. His ...

Tenor Zach Pecore knows his next performance will touch hearts. “To know the story of Matt Shepard is to feel such heavy grief for the life that was taken,” he says. “To stand and sing his story on ...

Their criticisms were read aloud in their absence during a ceremony at the Justice Department. By Katie Benner The award-winning playwright and director looks hopefully and cautiously toward the ...

The lovingly detailed, moving documentary “Matt Shepard is a Friend of Mine” tells the story of Matthew Shepard’s tragically short life. In October 1998, two men in their earlier 20s robbed and beat ...

“Matt Shepard is a Friend of Mine” is getting an encore screening at Cleveland International Film Festival this weekend, a decade after it was first shown at the festival. 21-year-old Matthew Shepard ...

WEBVTT SOLEDA 20 YEARS AGO MATTHEW SHEPARD, A 21-YEAR-OLD A MAN, WAS BEATEN TO DEATH IN WYOMING. IT IS CONSIDERED ONE OF THE WORST ANTI-GAY CRIMES IN U.S. HISTORY. HIS MURDER SPARKED NATIONAL OUTRAGE ...

I was 11 when they murdered Matthew. The windswept prairie outside Laramie, Wyoming where he was found – bloodied, beaten, bound to a wooden fence – by a cyclist was a far cry from the dilapidated ...

This week marks the 25th anniversary of the death of Matthew Shepard, the gay University of Wyoming college student who was brutally beaten and left for dead in a remote area of Laramie, Wyoming in ...

On the 25th anniversary of the tragic death of Matthew Shepard, University Choir partnered with Lafayette Master Chorale to present Considering Matthew Shepard, a three-part oratorio by composer Craig ...

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