Remembering Matthew Shepard
October 6, 2011 at 7:34 PM Leave a comment
On the freezing evening of October 6/7, 1998 — thirteen years ago tonight:
two, two-bit thugs drove 21-year-old University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard to a remote part of Wyoming. They robbed him, pistol-whipped him and tied him to a barbed wire fence. They left him to there to die and five days later he did, of “severe head injuries.”
His “crime?” He was gay.
I remember that time like it was yesterday. It is seared in my brain because my brother is gay. I remember thinking: Dear one, I can’t believe we live in a world that does this.
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