Matthew Shepard

Laramie PrideFest was in June. The celebrations gave voice to and highlighted Laramie's diverse cultures, and celebrated and honored them with a host of events.

The autopsy said the cause of death multiple injuries from blunt trauma to the head and face.

The ceremony's homily was delivered by the Rev. V. Gene Robinson, the first openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church.

The Shepard family is donating personal school papers, theater scripts, photographs, correspondence and notebooks as well as some personal objects.

Matthew Shepard's ashes will be interred at the Washington National Cathedral later this month.

Henderson tied Shepard to the fence after McKinney told him to do it, he said.

Sara Burlingame said she and other LGBTQ activists had avoided confronting Jimenez until recently "because it felt obscene to have to defend a murdered child."

Stephen Jimenez says Matthew Shepard was killed over his failure to produce six ounces of crystal meth, not because he was gay.