Matthew Shepard
was murdered in a hate crime 15 years ago. He will never be forgotten
and one of the reasons is because of the tireless work of his family who
successfully pushed for hate crime legislation on a federal level.
Judy Shepard was in tears as she reflected on
today’s Supreme Court rulings on California’s Prop. 8 and the striking
down of the Defense of Marriage Act.
She told People.com:
“There had been a [news] story about same-sex marriage and he was
debating it with me. He asked me if I thought gay couples would ever be
allowed to get married and he wasn’t at all optimistic it would
happen. He was in a mindset of, ‘People are never going to accept us or
understand us.’ It was a much different world then. There was activism
happening, yes. And we were moving on from the AIDS pandemic. But
ignorance and the fear out there was its own pandemic. For Matthew, it
was a very secret world still.”
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