Tag: Laramie
Best U.S Documentary of 2015 : Matt Shepard Is A Friend Of Mine
On October 7, 1998, University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard was brutally beaten, tied to a fence and left to die because he was gay.
Laramie Project Comes To Brighton
Groundbreaking and Powerful play about the death of Matthew Shepard comes to Brighton.
14 years later Matthew Shepard’s brutal murder still shines light on LGBT hate crimes
On Oct. 12, 1998, Matthew Shepard, a University of Wyoming political science and foreign relations student, died after being brutally assaulted.
The memory of Matthew Shepard revisited on the Montreal stage in ‘The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later’
In October 1998, 21-year-old Matthew Shepard was brutally attacked and left for dead, bound to a fence in the outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming. Shepard eventually succumbed to the injuries inflicted upon him in an act of homophobic violence.
N.C. Rep.: Matthew Shepard Hate Crime a “Hoax”
The federal LGBT-inclusive hate-crimes bill passed in the House yesterday, but Republican representative Virginia Foxx of North Carolina took to the House floor to offer her two cents, saying Matthew Shepard’s death, while unfortunate, wasn’t a hate crime – it was a hoax.