On the night of October 6, 1998, a gay twenty-one-year-old college student named Matthew Shepard was lured from a Wyoming bar by two young men, savagely beaten, tied to a remote fence, and left to die. That same night, Gay Awareness Week was beginning at the University of Wyoming, and the keynote speaker was LESLEA NEWMAN, […]
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