The recent torture and murder of 24-year-old trans man Sam Nordquist bears similarities to the 1998 murder of 21-year-old cisgender gay man Matthew Shepard. Shepard’s murder shocked the nation. Like ...

Greg Pierotti directs School of Theatre, Film & Television student Isabella Russo in a rehearsal of “The Laramie Project.” The play, which Pierotti co-wrote and for which he later earned an Emmy ...

"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 ...

"I don't think the proof was there" that it was a hate crime, Rerucha said. Later, he said Matthew Shepard would be alive today if McKinney had not become involved with meth, which Rerucha said drives ...

Judy Shepard will speak at Roanoke College on Wednesday. After her son’s death, Judy Shepard saw Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson as proof of a cruel, intolerant world. The two young men had ...

In 1998, Matthew Shepard became a household name for the worst possible reason when he was robbed, beaten, and left tied to a fence outside Laramie, Wyoming by Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson.