Word: matthew
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After the death of Matthew Shepard, Harvard's House masters responded quickly last week to reassure members of the gay community that the College is a safe place to be out of the closet...
...deeply saddened today by the death of Matthew Shepard," Georgi wrote. "We can redouble our efforts to ensure that Leverett House is a place where different people...can join together as a family, in mutual respect and affection...
...BGLTSA took action on National Coming Out Day last Tuesday, accepting donations for a Matthew Shepard fund and urging people to write to members of Congress to support hate crimes legislation, now pending...
...Matthew Shepard was not openly gay. He was just himself. If people asked and he felt comfortable in their presence, he'd say, "I'm gay." There was no flaunting it. After all, he was a freshman at the University of Wyoming in the Cowboy State, a campus where real men were supposed to love football and all-night parties. Shepard, barely 5-ft. 2-in. tall and on a good day 105 lbs., preferred political debate and languages (German and Arabic) to the stereotypical masculine pursuits of his father's alma mater. Shepard said his jaw was recently broken...
...school age, neglected or abused children may struggle with learning for the rest of their lives. "If they're not getting the nurturing they need in the earliest years, their synaptic development shuts down, which in turn shuts down the foundations for learning and being a human being," says Matthew Melmed, executive director of Zero to Three, a nonprofit group focusing on the importance of the first three years of life...