The mother of Matthew Shepard, the Wyoming college student murdered in 1998 because he was gay, will be this year’s featured speaker at Eliminate Hate Week at Minnesota State University. Judy Shepard ...

In October 1998, the LGBT community was hit hard by news that a gay, 21-year-old University of Wyoming student had been tied to a fence, severely beaten and left for dead. Coming as it did during a ...

Judy Shepard called for an end of the hate Tuesday night that led to her son Matthew becoming a victim of a hate crime seven years ago. Her speech in Jesse Hall Auditorium at MU was part of a two-week ...

Judy Shepard is the president and founder of the Matthew Shepard Foundation, which has joined the new Eliminate Hate Campaign. Your browser is out of date. Please ...

The mother of Matthew Shepard shares her story about her son's death and the choice she made to become an international gay rights activist. Today, the name Matthew Shepard is synonymous with gay ...

Judy Shepard, the mother of Matthew Shepard and co-founder of the foundation that bears his name, will join a former Wyoming state superintendent in being awarded honorary doctoral degrees from the ...

The scene was this: a college play, “The Laramie Project,” at the University of Mississippi, Tuesday night. It’s a play about a town in Wyoming and its reaction to the murder of gay college student ...

Judy Shepard is co-founder of the Matthew Shepard Foundation, which is dedicated to social justice, diversity awareness and education, and equality for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.

Judy Shepard is the mother of Matthew Shepard, a gay student who was murdered in Laramie on Oct. 12, 1998. She and her husband, Dennis, have founded the Matthew Shepard Foundation in his memory, ...