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Sunday, November 23
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Lezzymom and Jess with Judy Shepard HRC Arizona Dinner 2006 The following is a post I wrote for my personal family blog. I wanted to include it here to show...
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Wednesday, November 12
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On Fri, Nov. 14, Alameda High School students will be performing a production of The Laramie Project which is going to be picketed by Fred Phelps of the "God Hates Fags" group. They are trying to get as many people there to show support...
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Monday, October 27
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Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians & Gays has a petition targeting the U.S. senate urging them to pass comprehensive hate crimes legislation. Hate crimes based on sexual orientation and gender identity are on the rise! Only 27 states...
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Monday, October 13
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I hadn’t planned on posting another installment, but I just happened to run across this at the library Sunday. It’s from the Winter 1998/9 edition of the Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review. Ten years ago today, Rep. Barney Frank (R-MA...
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Sunday, October 12
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Ten years ago today, on October 12, 1998, Poudre Valley Hospital’s CEO Rulon Stacey released this medical update during a hastily called press conference at 4:30 a.m.:
At 12 midnight on Monday, October 12, Matthew Shepard’s blood pressure...
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Saturday, October 11
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Ten years ago today, Matthew Shepard lay quietly in the surgical-neuro intensive care unit of Poudre Valley Hospital in Ft. Collins, Colorado, surrounded by his family. This was his fifth day since that awful night. Despite his comatose state, doctors...
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Friday, October 10
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Ten years ago today fell on a Saturday. For five days now, Matthew Shepard has continued to cling to life. He’s comatose, and breathing with the aid of a ventilator.
This day was also Homecoming Day for the University of Wyoming in Laramie...
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Thursday, October 09
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Ten years ago today, Matthew Shepard’s attackers were arraigned in court.
According to reports, Aaron James McKinney and Russel Arthur Henderson, both 21, were arraigned on charges of attempted murder, kidnapping, and aggravated robbery. Two...
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Monday, October 06
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Judy Shepard appeared on The Early Show this morning to discuss her gay son, Matthew, who was beaten and left for dead ten years ago today.
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Monday, October 06
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Ten years ago today, the world had never heard of Matthew Shepard. That’s because up until ten years ago today, he was just another 21-year-old gay college student at the University of Wyoming in Laramie.
Well, not just another college student...
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Monday, October 06
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It was ten years ago today that gay Wyoming college student Matthew Shepard was brutally beaten and left to die. Ten years and Wyoming still does not have a hate crimes law. This morning Matthew's mother Judy Shepard appeared on CBS News to...
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Monday, October 06
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It's not often that you see Republicans using gay rights as the positive foundation for a campaign commercial, but Oregonian Senator Gordon Smith is not your regular Republican. The politico this weekend released an advert highlighting his...
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Monday, September 29
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Via AP : The nation — and the city of Laramie — has become more accepting of gays and lesbians in the 10 years since a gay University of Wyoming student was beaten, lashed to a lonely fence and left to die, his mother said Saturday. "We've...
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Wednesday, September 17
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The Tectonic Theater Project, the team behind the Matthew Shepard play The Laramie Project, is adding an epilogue to their piece. The troupe visited Laramie again to interview residents and see what has changed in the ten years since the murder...
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