LARAMIE – Twenty-two years ago today a University of Wyoming freshman left the Fireside Bar in downtown Laramie just after midnight and was found hours later tied to a fence outside of town badly beaten and left to die.
The reason for the attack was simply because he was gay. There are relatively few people over the age of thirty-five who haven’t heard of that young student as his murder shocked the nation.
Matthew Shepard, 21, who died six days later on October 12, 1998, became the iconic symbol for those devoted to the cause to stop the hatred and anti-LGBTQ animus.
Led by his grieving parents, Dennis and Judy Shepard along with their surviving son Logan, who as a family founded a foundation in his name, a movement took off to raise
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