MATTHEW SHEPARD’S LASTING LEGACY
ON OCT. 26, A DAY BEFORE THE MASS shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, the ashes of Matthew Shepard, the 21-year-old University of Wyoming student who in 1998 was beaten and left to die tied to a fence, were interred at the National Cathedral in Washington. Shepard’s parents, Dennis and Judy, have spent the two decades since their son’s death fighting for LGBTQ rights. Before the
