Matthew Shepard - Decade of Challenge & Change

Matthew Shepard was murdered 10 years ago. His short 21 year life made a real difference. Numerous web sites started after Matthew's death. Some of the web sites just remembered his life and death, while other web sites dealt with hate crimes and homophobia. Before he died, nobody would have imagined gay marriage as being a political issue. The efforts of Dennis, Judy, and Logan Shepard have made a difference. The Matthew Shepard Foundation is touching lives.

The brutal attack on Matthew Shepard, and his death came at Canadian Thanksgiving weekend. GLBT Canadians and their allies find their thoughts on Thanksgiving are a mixture of happiness for family and friends, and sadness over the loss of Matthew Shepard. At Thanksgiving GLBT Canadians and their allies can be very thankful for Matthew's short life, and for the tremendous difference Matthew, Dennis, Judy, and Logan Shepard made for the queer community.

A few resources for people interested in advocating for GLBT rights and fighting hate crimes are as follows:

Matthew Shepard Foundation - http://www.matthewshepard.org/

Human Rights Campaign - http://www.hrc.org/

Gay Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation - http://www.glaad.org/

Parents Family & Friends of Lesbians and Gays - http://community.pflag.org/

Amnesty International (GLBT) - http://www.ai-lgbt.org/

Egale Canada - http://www.egale.ca/

Stop Hate - http://www.stophate.us

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[BurtBenz]

Very nice video! Thank you for making and posting it! I can hear you're really speaking from your heart.

[garysdeskcom]

Thank you for your kind comments. :-D

[erasehate08]

wonderful job I wanna say thanks for this wondeful job u done on this keep speaking out and fighting

[garysdeskcom]

Thank you for the generous words.  :-D

[MtownHatesFaggots]

California is fought back.Fags are losers!

[garysdeskcom]

Internalized homophobia is difficult.

[MtownHatesFaggots]

Loser!

[garysdeskcom]

Thanks for the kind words. I will add a link to Egale Canada. They are very good too.

[mymoosejaw]

Great thought and thanks much for the links as well.