Word: shepards
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Frank commented on two issues currently prominent in the national media--the possible impeachment of President Bill Clinton and the brutal murder of Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming...
...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...
Although nothing has been finalized, plans are in the works for a memorial service commemorating Shepard as well as a study break to be held Thursday
...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...