UW student found brutally beaten (+ related articles from The Branding Iron, U. Wyoming student paper, 10/9/98)

Gay Student Beaten In Apparent Hate Crime (10/11/98, KOIN 6, Laramie)

Gay Wyoming student dies from beating (CNN, 10/12/98)

Gay Student Dies from Injuries (Associated Press, 10/12/98) 

Wyoming student dies from beating (Denver Post, 10/12/98)

Supporters honor victim (Denver Post, 10/12/98)

Gay Student Who Was Kidnapped and Beaten Dies (New York Times, 10/13/98)

Charges Upgraded in Attack on Gay (AP 10/13/98 + six related stories)

The Road to Laramie (Frank Rich, New York Times OpEd, 10/14/98)

Many Share in the Hate-Filled Killing of Gay Student (Deborah Mathis, Orlando Sentinel, 10/15/98)

Men Held in Beating Lived on the Fringes (New York Times, 10/16/98)

Larry King Live: Examining Anti-Gay Violence in America (with Jerry Falwell, Albert Mohler, Jr., Andrew Sullivan &  Elizabeth Birch,  10/16/98)

Editorial: The Lesson of Matthew Shepard (New York Times, 10/17/98)

That's Not a Scarecrow (Richard Woodbury & Maureen Harrington, Time, 10/19/98)

The Thin Line Between . . . FEAR and HATE (Howard Rosenberg, LA Times, 10/21/98)

Echoes of a Murder in Wyoming (Newsweek, 10/26/98)

Death In Wyoming (Thomas Fields-Meyer, Vickie Bane and Elizabeth Leonard, People, 11/2/98)

Matthew's Passion (Tony Kushner, The Nation, 11/9/98)

The War Against Gays and Lesbians (Nat Hentoff, Village Voice, 11/24/98)

Remembering Matthew Shepard (Katie Couric, Dateline NBC interview with Dennis & Judy Shepard, Matthew's parents, 2/5/99)

See also: Matthew Shepard Online Resources (by Wired Strategies, Washington, DC)or a partial mirror of the site containing good links and "Elegy for Matt" by John Aravosis

Lambda Midwest Memorial Page for Matthew Shepard (constant updates and lots of good links, addresses, etc.)

And lest we forget how the "Christian" Right really feels about us, this press release from the diseased mind of Fred Phelps

Send Letters to Editors about violence against gay people:

WYOMING NEWSPAPERS
Branding Iron (University of Wyoming), Laramie, WY (email:  bi@uwyo.edu) (http://bi.uwyo.edu)

Laramie Daily Boomerang,314 S. 14th St., Laramie,WY,82070  (Fax 307-721-2933) 

Casper Star-Tribune, 170 Star Ln, PO Box 70, Casper WY 82602-0070 (Fax 307-266-0501 ) (email: letters@trib.com)

Wyoming Tribune-Eagle,702 W. Lincolnway,Cheyenne,WY,82001 
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Wyoming Journal, Newcastle, WY 
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(Thanks to Graham Underhill for this list)