The Matthew Shepard Foundation is one of five nonprofits competing nationally Dec. 1-8 to win grant money from the Chase American Giving Awards. A total of $2 million will be awarded based on ...

A lot has changed for gay Americans in the 20 years since Matthew Shepard, a student at the University of Wyoming, was beaten, tortured, tied to a fence and left for dead by two men he had met at a ...

Choral Artists of Sarasota has been awarded a $25,000 grant from the Community Foundation of Sarasota County, with support from the Huisking Family Fund, McCauley-Brown Fund, and John J. Weiss ...

"Like many gay men and women, I can remember exactly where I was when I heard of Matthew's murder," said State Representative Mark Ferrandino. "In college I was in the process of coming out. His death ...

It’s been 20 years since University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard was killed for being gay. Since then, his parents have worked tirelessly to get federal hate crimes legislation passed and to ...

Judy Shepard, the longtime LGBTQ+ activist and mother of anti-gay hate crime victim Matthew Shepard, will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Shepard will receive the award, the U.S.’s highest ...

This month marks the 25th anniversary of the death of Matthew Shepard. On October 6, 1998, Shepard was beaten, tortured and left to die, bound to a fence in a remote Wyoming field, not far from the ...

Matthew Shepard Papers / Series 2: Shepard Family and The Matthew Shepard Foundation, Papers and Correspondence Received / 2.1: Papers Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives ...