Word: matthew
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...greatest fear is that as the plague recedes we will see the end of that cushion between [the gay community and] hostility," Sullivan told an audience member who asked for his thoughts on the death of Matthew Shepard, the college student killed last week in Wyoming because...
...staff unnecessarily politicizes a horrible death. The platform of the Republican party is unrelated to the killing of Matthew Shepherd. At a time of such tragedy, Shepherd's family would be best served by the nation's coming together to join them in mourning. Accusing Republican voters of homophobia and of somehow encouraging murder is not only a broad, hostile claim, but it is also false. This murder was the wrongful act of individuals, and they deserve to be severely punished...
...Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, died Monday after an attack last week. He was beaten and left for dead after revealing his sexual orientation in a local bar in Laramie, where the university is located...
...Lowell House bells tolled 22 times Monday evening to commemorate the life of Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming who last week was lured from a bar, brutally beaten and left to die. The murder, authorities say, was likely motivated in part by the victim's sexual orientation. It was, it seems, precisely because Shepard was not afraid to reveal his homosexuality that his life came to such a horrifying...
Blame for Matthew Shepard's death must first be laid at the feet of his assailants. Yet the homophobia that seems to be spreading like a plague through American society cannot be ignored. In this climate of intolerance, acts of violence against gays and lesbians are only more likely...