Senate names act for Matthew Shepard, gay man murdered in Wyoming in 1998. Sept. 27, 2007— -- Senators voted Thursday morning to give the federal government more jurisdiction to prosecute hate ...

In October 1998, the LGBT community was hit hard by news that a gay, 21-year-old University of Wyoming student had been tied to a fence, severely beaten and left for dead. Coming as it did during a ...

This past weekend the largest gay-rights demonstration in close to a decade descended on Washington, D.C., where lawmakers may finally approve the Matthew Shepard & James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes ...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- Law enforcement agencies need officers who are open-minded and who can set aside personal prejudices when investigating hate crimes, the Wyoming lawman who investigated one of ...