In October 1998, the LGBT community was hit hard by news that a gay, 21-year-old University of Wyoming student had been tied to a fence, severely beaten and left for dead. Coming as it did during a ...

The mother of a slain gay college student and the first female speaker of the U.S. House will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, President Joe Biden ...

Wyoming Board of Parole Executive Director Margaret White confirmed the decision in a statement to The Advocate. “Mr. Henderson filed a commutation petition which the Board considered in accordance ...

Judy Shepard will speak at Roanoke College on Wednesday. After her son’s death, Judy Shepard saw Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson as proof of a cruel, intolerant world. The two young men had ...

One of the men who murdered gay college student Matthew Shepard in 1998 was denied a commutation of his sentence this week, the Wyoming Board of Parole has confirmed. Russell Henderson, who along with ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Judy Shepard is a Co-Founder and Exec. Dir. for the Matthew Shepard Foundation with eight videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1999 Forum. The year ...

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The mother of Matthew Shepard, the student who died in 1998 after being tortured in Laramie, Wyo., will speak at an April 2 fundraiser for the Jim Toy Community Center (formerly known as the Washtenaw ...

"As a young woman who had never, ever fit in, I had always felt left-of-center, off-kilter, weird. It took the early part of my 20s to not only come to grips with that weirdness but to begin to ...

Matthew Shepard stands clad in a blue flannel shirt, right hand to his chest. He’s not smiling, but his expression is warm. Short snippets of letters surround him like a halo. They say things like “we ...

The 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard drew new attention to hate crimes targeting people who are gay. But more than a decade later, Shepard's mother... Judy Shepard And 'The Meaning Of Matthew' The 1998 ...