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Matthew Shepard
1976 - 1998
Gone, but not to be forgotten

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INTERNET MEMORIALS:

The Matt Shepard Memorial Site

Baptist Watch Matthew Shepard Memorial Page

Matthew's Place

In Memory of Mathew Shepard's Life and Tragic Death: Wallpaper

1/6/99 March Website and Gif to Link Potomac Watch Political Opinion, Debate and Links Site

Matthew Shepard Memorial Web Site http://www.websine.com/shepard/matt.html

Andrej Koymasky Memorial Hall

(In Memory of) Matthew Shepard All the News All the Time - Gay/Lesbian Issues

The Remember Matthew Shepard Graphic is located at http://www.turnleft.com/img/remember.jpg

Matthew Shepard Info
http://www.pcisys.net/~aellison/matthew/

Matthew Shepard's Memorial Website
http://www.websine.com/shepard/matt.html

The Matthew Shepard Tribute

Matthew Shepard - HCPA - TAKE ACTION

Stop the Violence Stop the Hate Queer Rights Now (New York)

Eric's Matthew Shepard Tribute

Wired Strategies Matthew Shepard Page http://www.wiredstrategies.com/shepard.html

Gay Nebraska Matthew Shepard Page

Twilight Child's (Seth Watkins) Matthew Shepard Page

Matthew Shepard Poetry Page

Oasis Magazine's Issue on Matthew Shepard

Links to information about the murder of Matthew Shepard

Master Dean's World

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ANTI-VIOLENCE PROJECTS, LEGAL ACTION, PROGRAMS AND PROTESTS

New York Anti-Violence Project

PHOENIX: The Free Legal Group for Matthew Shepard

Matthew Shepard Political Funeral in New York


WEB RINGS AND MORE!!!

Matthew Shepard Memorial Web Ring

Matthew Wayne Shepard Memorial Web Ring

Matthew Shepard Memorial Web Ring List of Sites

Matthew Wayne Shepard Memorial Ring List of Sites

Hate Crimes Quilt Information Page


MESSAGE BOARDS

Matthew Shepard Memorial and Hate Crimes Message Board

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Matthew Shepard Message Board
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**DONATING FUNDS:
The family has again asked that no flowers be sent but rather that
people send donations to the Matthew Shepard memorial fund at:
c/o First National Bank
PO Box 578
Fort Collins, CO 80522
Account No. 1926083

and also donate funds to gay/les/bi/trans organizations of all kinds to help them do their jobs.

Bigotothon P R E S S R E L E A S E

OUT Starts Matthew Shepard Scholarship Fund
Monday October 19
Company Press Release
OUT Starts Matthew Shepard Scholarship Fund
NEW YORK--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Oct. 19, 1998--Out Publishing Inc., publisher of OUT and HIV PLUS magazines, today announced the creation of a scholarship fund in memory of Matthew Shepard, the gay student brutally murdered in Wyoming last week.
Out editor in chief, James Collard, said the company would donate $10,000 as
seed money to the scholarship fund and would solicit contributions from
other individuals and organizations.
``Early in his all-too-short life, Matthew showed the courage to come out, and his death showed that in America, as in the rest of the world, simply being open about your sexuality can be enough to make someone hate you,'' Collard said. ``The pursuit of happiness is America's unique promise, surely, and yet because of precisely this hate, Matthew was denied that. The
fund is a way to invest in all of our futures, whilst remembering his life and loss, and the continuing struggle for gay rights.''
Collard said OUT will recruit a panel of lesbian and gay leaders to establish criteria by which scholarship recipients are chosen.
The scholarship, which will carry Matthew Shepard's name, will be given annually starting in the Fall of 1999.
Twenty-one year-old Matthew Shepard was viciously beaten, tortured and left to die on the evening of October 7 outside the college town of Laramie, Wyoming. He died the following Monday morning at a hospital in Colorado. The two men believed to be responsible for this crime have been charged with murder in the first degree.
Donations to the fund can be sent to: The Matthew Shepard Fund, c/o OUT Magazine, Prince Street Station, P.O. Box 630, New York, NY 10012.
Contact:
Out Publishing, New York
Al Rojas, 212/334-9119, ext. 63

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WRITE THE MEDIA WITH YOUR CONCERNS ABOUT THE HATE CRIMES PREVENTION ACT AND LACK OF ONE IN WYOMING AND THE UNITED STATES

WYOMING NEWSPAPERS
University of Wyoming
Laramie Daily Boomerang,314 S. 14th St.,Laramie,WY,82070
(Fax 307-721-2933 ) (E-MAIL: [email protected] ) ( http://bi.uwyo.edu/ )
Casper Star-Tribune, 170 Star Ln, PO Box 70, Casper WY 82602-0070
(Fax 307-266-0501 ) (E-MAIL: [email protected] )
Wyoming Tribune-Eagle,702 W. Lincolnway,Cheyenne,WY,82001
(Fax 307-778-7163 )(E-MAIL: [email protected] )
Wyoming Journal, Newcastle, WY
(E-MAIL: [email protected] )
Branding Iron (University of Wyoming), Laramie, WY
E-Mail: [email protected] ) ( http://bi.uwyo.edu )

USA TODAY [email protected]

Chicago Tribune [email protected]
Wall St. Journal [email protected]
Dallas News [email protected]
New York Times [email protected]
Christian Science Monitor [email protected]
Newsday [email protected]
Boston Globe [email protected]
Florida Today (Melbourne) [email protected]
Columbus OH Dispatch [email protected]
SF Examiner [email protected]
SF Chronicle [email protected]
TIME [email protected]
NEWSWEEK [email protected]
U. S. NEWS [email protected]

Nebraska:
The Daily Nebraskan [email protected]

Kansas City, MO:
The Pitch [email protected]
Kansas City Star [email protected]

Jay N. Fromkin
Director, University Relations
University of Wyoming
Phone: 307-766-2929
Fax: 307-766-6729
[email protected]

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ACTIONS TO TAKE IN THE AFTERMATH OF MATTHEW SHEPARD'S DEATH REGARDING HATE CRIMES:

Send email to Governor Jim Geringer of Wyoming, let him know what
you think of their lack of hate crime protection and what that meant for
Matthew Shepard and for his attackers: [email protected] or
write him personally at: Governor's Office, Wyoming State Capitol,
Cheyenne, WY 82002 and contact the Mayor Laramie: Ms. Trudy McCraken,
City of Laramie, P.O. Box C, Laramie, WY 82073 (307) 721-5226 Fax:
(307) 721-5211

Contact your Senators and Representatives in Washington and demand
immediate action on the Hate Crimes Protection Act:

http://www.senate.gov
http://www.house.gov

Contact President Clinton Vice-President Gore, Hillary Clinton and
Mrs. Gore and express your outrage at this failure of the State of
Wyoming to enact adequate protection for its Gay and Lesbian citizens:

President William J. Clinton
[email protected]

Vice President Al Gore
[email protected]

Hillary Clinton
[email protected]

Mrs. Gore
[email protected]

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WEAR A BLACK RIBBON CAMPAIGN:

Ribbons Are Available Below!



I am encouraging the
gay/lesbian/bi/trans community and our allies to adopt the black ribbon
to signify anti-gay/lesbian violence and other hate crimes. The Black
Ribbon would best represent the bleak state of affairs in America today
for gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transgendered, African Americans, Other
Races and Ethnic Groups. Because we have ignorance it is dark and we
need light to shed on this ignorance so that it doesn't happen over and
over!!! Wearing a black ribbon would bring some awareness to the world
that we are not going to forget the death of Matthew Shepard, nor any of
the acts of hatred towards minorities in America today!!! Wear a black
ribbon to mourn the senseless loss of another young life to hatred and
intolerance, and to mourn the loss of security of all BGLT Americans.

Please do something now. Let it be known that we have had enough.
This loss will not go unremembered; it must not go unpunished. We cannot
allow it to be swept under the rug. We cannot just suffer in silence any
longer.


RIBBONS FOR YOU TO USE TO MEMORIALIZE MATTHEW WAYNE SHEPARD AND HATE CRIMES













RIBBON AWARENESS LINKS

Ribbons Net-Awareness Ribbons

Ribbon Colors-Nursing

NEWS AND INFO WEB SITES
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Visiting these websites for more information and learning what hate crime is really about:

Salon Newsreal | Web of hate

Hates Crimes on Yahoo

Shepard Victim of Conspiracy

The Gay Defence Leauge: Fighting for Freedom from Fear

"Branding Iron" Student Newspaper
http://bi.uwyo.edu/

University of Wyoming "Laramie Online" - Laramie News Service:
--"online student newspaper covering Laramie and UW":
http://www.uwyo.edu/a&s/comm/lns/shep2.htm


United Gays and Lesbians of Wyoming:
http://www.uglw.org/

The University of Wyoming (Laramie) student newspaper: "Branding Iron"
http://bi.uwyo.edu/


SPECIAL REPORT -- The Murder of Matthew Shepard
The Data Lounge has posted a series of reports on the brutal murder of a
gay student whose unsuccessful fight for life focused the hearts and
minds
of the nation this weekend.
http://www.datalounge.com/cgi-bin2/dbm/news/record?record=2754

e-online Petition against Hate in Wyoming
Please link to this petition supporting Matthew Shepard, the young man from
Laramie, Wyoming who died this morning after being savagely beaten and left for
dead because of his sexual orientation. This petition has been started to
encourage the legislature to pass hate crimes legislation. May God bless
Matthew Shepard.

You can sign the petition at:

http://www.e-thepeople.com/etp2/affiliates/national/fullview.cfm?ETPID=0&PETID=55464&ETPDIR=affiliates/national

Also see: http://www.e-thepeople.com

Matthew Shepard on CNN
http://www.cnn.com/US/9810/10/wyoming.attack/

University of Illinois at Chicago Office of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual &
Transgender Concerns Anti-violence pages:
http://www.uic.edu/depts/quic/oglbc/safety/

Matthew Shepard, 1976 - 1998
/WallStreet/Floor/9912/beating-2.JPG

Yahoo's Matthew Shepard Coverage http://headlines.yahoo.com/FC/US/Matthew_Shepard_Murder/

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"Everyone should be allowed expression, no one ought be allowed oppression" --RB, 1985, UNL

"And the light shines in the darkness, but the darkness did not comprehend it" John 1:5



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