On Oct. 7, 1998, Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old student at the University of Wyoming, was brutally attacked and tied to a fence in a field outside of Laramie and left to die. On Oct. 12, he succumbed ...

Shepard was taken to Ivinson Memorial Hospital in Laramie, then transferred in critical condition to Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins, Colo., where he died five days later. The day after ...

Wyoming (Advocate.com) — Twenty-five years ago this week, Americans — and possibly much of the world — began thinking about anti-LGBTQ+ hate crimes to an extent they hadn’t before. On October 12, 1998 ...