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The former assistant principal of a Colorado high school claims he was fired after offering "a Christian perspective" on a school play about the murder of Matthew Shepard, a gay college student.
The site will offer visitors an opportunity for reflection and provide protection from the desecration Matthew's family feared.
Sanders bests Hillary Clinton in Wisconsin and gives a shout-out to the gay rights movement.
Shepard's ashes were interred today at the Washington National Cathedral.
Jane Clementi and Judy Shepard talk about the pain of losing an LGBTQ+ child in the wake of Nex Benedict’s tragic death
Those who cynically dismiss political revolutions — like the kind Bernie Sanders is promising — aren't acknowledging history.
In 1998 in rural Wyoming, Matthew Shepard was tied to a fence by two local men, brutally beaten, and left to die. Ten years after Shepard's murder, the company behind The Laramie Project returned to Laramie to find out, in the words of creator Moises Kaufman, "what had or had not changed" about the town since the hate crime. The result is Laramie: 10 Years Later.
Russell Henderson, one of two men convicted of the heinous hate crime, tried to have his double life sentence shortened.
Communities around the state threw tutu-wearing parties in response to Sen. Mike Enzi's comments that a man in a tutu is asking for a fight.
The action appears to say the items are as disruptive as racist and homophobic literature recently distributed at the Cheyenne, Wyo., school.
Ten years after his brutal murder, those who knew him best -- and those who learned of him only at the end -- remember that week in October and reflect on the legacy of Matthew Shepard.
