Matthew Shepard, victim of anti
Amid the signature songs of tortured love on Melissa Etheridge's new album, "Breakdown," is "Scarecrow," her scathing response to last year's beating death in Wyoming of Matthew Shepard, a year-old gay college student. Twenty-five years ago today, year-old Matthew Shepard died from injuries he suffered in one of the most shocking anti-gay hate crimes in U. Wyoming is still reeling from the incident.
Matthew Shepard
In the evening hours of Oct. 6, , Matthew Shepard, a year-old University of Wyoming student who was openly gay, went alone to the Fireside Lounge in Laramie after a meeting of the campus LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) student group and a quick stop at the Village Inn. In less than two hours’ time, he became part of a chain of events that attracted international media and. Matthew Shepard was abducted, beaten and killed 20 years ago because he was gay. Twenty years ago, Matthew Shepard was a "smart, funny" year-old, no different than any other young man that age. Our Story
Matthew Shepard was abducted, beaten and killed 20 years ago because he was gay. Twenty years ago, Matthew Shepard was a "smart, funny" year-old, no different than any other young man that age. A memorial has been held a quarter of a century after a gay man was tied to a fence post and tortured to death. Matthew Shepard, a year-old University of Wyoming student, died six days after he was savagely pistol whipped by two young men in Laramie, Wyoming. Remembering Matthew Shepard
Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson were around year-old Shepard’s age when they chatted him up the evening of October 6, at the Fireside Lounge in Laramie. Shepard had just come from a meeting of his college LGBT association, where the group was planning awareness activities, according to the BBC. McKinney and Henderson pretended to be gay and lured Shepard into McKinney's pickup. His death has been memorialized as an egregious hate crime that helped fuel the LGBTQ rights movement over the ensuing years. Vermont allowed same-sex civil unions in Matthew Shepard
On October 7, , Matthew Shepard, a year-old student at the University of Wyoming, was brutally attacked and tied to a fence in a field outside of Laramie, Wyoming and left to die. On October 12, Matt succumbed to his wounds in a hospital in Fort Collins, Colorado. In the aftermath of Matt’s death, his parents, Judy and Dennis Shepard, started the Matthew Shepard Foundation to honor. University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard dies after a vicious anti-gay attack. The two attackers then took Shepard, 21 years old and weighing just over pounds, to a remote spot outside of town and tied his naked body to a wooden fence, tortured him, and left him in the freezing cold. The Murder of Matthew Shepard
It’s been 25 years since Matthew Shepard, a gay year-old University of Wyoming student, died after being beaten by two men and tied to a remote fence to meet his fate. . 
25 Years Later, Wyoming Still Grapples
He was just five years old when the year-old University of Wyoming student’s murder shocked the world in , prompting new conversations about anti-gay hate crimes and catalyzing the movement to expand protections for LGBTQ+ people. It wasn’t until middle school that he fully understood what happened. .
Matthew Shepard
The two attackers then took Shepard, 21 years old and weighing just over pounds, to a remote spot outside of town and tied his naked body to a wooden fence, tortured him, and left him in the. .