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 ...

In the fall of 1998, a man named Matthew Shepard was savagely beaten, strung out on a fence like a scarecrow, and left to die as the Wyoming night temperatures plunged. Over the last two and a half ...

"We see in Joe so much of what made Matt's life special," Dennis Shepard said The parents of the late Matthew Shepard — the 21-year-old gay college student whose 1998 killing made him a symbol of ...

Judy Shepard said she expected the climate for LGBTQ people to be better than it was 25 years ago, when her son Matthew was killed, but it’s not. “They’re still being denied basic rights, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last week, Matthew Shepard’s parents, Judy and Dennis, sat for a television interview. Their son, of course, had been beaten, pistol-whipped, tied to a fence post, and left to die near Laramie, Wyo., ...

Not many years ago, when I was teaching a university Queer Studies course, I opened a unit on the topic of violence directed against members of our community. As I discussed Brandon Teena, Gwen Araujo ...

(CBS4)--On Oct. 28, 2009, then-president Barack Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act into law. Shepard's parents tell CBS News progress has been made in the ...