“Matt Shepard is a Friend of Mine” is getting an encore screening at Cleveland International Film Festival this weekend, a decade after it was first shown at the festival. 21-year-old Matthew Shepard ...

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 ...

Tenor Zach Pecore knows his next performance will touch hearts. “To know the story of Matt Shepard is to feel such heavy grief for the life that was taken,” he says. “To stand and sing his story on ...

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 ...

Twenty years ago this week, Matthew Shepard died after being beaten, burned and left tied to a fence in Wyoming by two men who targeted him because he was gay. Since then, Shepard's parents have ...

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 Matthew Shepard Story is an American 2002 true story, directed by Roger Spottiswoode. It chronicles Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old gay man who was tragically murdered in 1998. Matthew, targeted ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The papers of Matthew Shepard (1976-1998) a gay man who was a victim of a hate crime in Laramie, Wyoming October 1998 resulting in his death. His ...