Posted on 10/11/2018 4:44:42 PM PDT by Ennis85
Matthew Shepard was savagely killed in Wyoming in 1998 at the age of 21 and went on to became a symbol on anti-gay violence in the US.
After being robbed by two men, he was repeatedly beaten and tied to a fence in near freezing conditions.
A cyclist found him after 18 hours. Six days later he died.
His parents cremated the body and kept the ashes, worried that a final resting place would be vandalised. But now he will finally be laid to rest.
The remains will be interred inside the crypt of Washington National Cathedral on 26 October, his family says.
How was Matthew Shepard murdered?
The University of Wyoming student was openly gay.
On 7 October 1998, he was lured from a bar in the city of Laramie by two men, Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson. They both confessed to telling Shepard they were gay and offering him a ride home with the intent to rob him.
They became angry when Shepard made a sexual advance, they said, and drove the student to an isolated area outside town.
There, the attackers tied him to a wooden fence and repeatedly struck Shepard's head with a handgun.
The cyclist who found him first mistook the student for a scarecrow.
Shepard was taken a local hospital and then moved to a better facility in Fort Collins, Colorado.
His skull was so badly fractured by the beating that doctors said surgery was not an option. He died on 12 October.
Henderson pleaded guilty to murder and kidnapping and sentenced to life in prison. McKinney was also given a life sentence after being found guilty.
What was the reaction to his killing?
The brutal attack caused national outrage and put the spotlight on the violence against the LGBT community.
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Like Michael Brown another liberal lie used to beat people into submission
What a freakin load:
He was a bisexual METH DEALER; usually he took cash as payment, but if the cowboys had the right look, he was okay with those clients paying in a DIFFERENT WAY, if you catch my drift.
Later things didn’t go so well with that pair so this guy got smart and told them he’d GIVEN THEM AIDS.
With the wrong guys, that probably wouldn’t play well in San Francisco, but I’d wager that out in the sticks of Wyoming that it goes over well with NOBODY.
And their reaction was one of total and complete non-amusement.
He didn’t deserve to die for being a butt pirate, but if you go and scare people badly enough, Bad Things are going to happen.
The story of how he died is a total lie.
How swell. This promiscuous little queer pervert will be laid in honored rest in the National Church. The National Cathedral pissants are the same ones who removed a stained glass window dedicated to Robert E. Lee. It seems appropriate now. The juxtaposition of Robert E. Lee and this little queer would be nausea inducing.
Yes, it is the same case. It was no “hate crime,” but instead Matthew Shepard was killed by his gay lover involving a drug deal. Matt was also a pedophile. Outrageous to honor him.
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