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Matthew Shepard Message Board
1976 - 1998
Gone, but not to be forgotten
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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: bi@uwyo.edu ) ( http://bi.uwyo.edu/ )
Casper Star-Tribune, 170 Star Ln, PO Box 70, Casper WY 82602-0070
(Fax 307-266-0501 ) (E-MAIL: letters@trib.com )
Wyoming Tribune-Eagle,702 W. Lincolnway,Cheyenne,WY,82001
(Fax 307-778-7163 )(E-MAIL: opinions@wyomingnews.com )
Wyoming Journal, Newcastle, WY
(E-MAIL: journal@trib.com )
Branding Iron (University of Wyoming), Laramie, WY
E-Mail: BI@uwyo.edu ) ( http://bi.uwyo.edu )
USA TODAY editor@usatoday.com
Chicago Tribune tribletter@aol.com
Wall St. Journal letter.editor@edit.wsj.com
Dallas News letterstoeditor@dallasnews.com
New York Times letters@nytimes.com
Christian Science Monitor oped@csps.com
Newsday letters@newsday.com
Boston Globe letter@globe.com
Florida Today (Melbourne) letters@brevard.gannett.com
Columbus OH Dispatch letters@dispatch.com
SF Examiner letters@examiner.com
SF Chronicle chronletters@sfgate.com
TIME letters@time.com
NEWSWEEK letters@newsweek.com
U. S. NEWS letters@usnews.com
Nebraska:
The Daily Nebraskan letters@unlinfo.unl.edu
Kansas City, MO:
The Pitch pitch@pitch.com
Kansas City Star letters@kcstar.com
Jay N. Fromkin
Director, University Relations
University of Wyoming
Phone: 307-766-2929
Fax: 307-766-6729
Fromkin@uwyo.edu
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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: governor@missc.state.wy.us 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
president@whitehouse.gov
Vice President Al Gore
vice-president@whitehouse.gov
Hillary Clinton
First.Lady@whitehouse.gov
Mrs. Gore
Mrs.Gore@whitehouse.gov
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WEAR A BLACK RIBBON CAMPAIGN:
Ribbons Are Available Below!
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.
RIBBON AWARENESS LINKS
NEWS AND INFO WEB SITES
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Visiting these websites for more information and learning what hate crime is really about:
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-bin/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
http://geocities.datacellar.net/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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