http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/10/06/3291Today In History: Before Matthew Shepard
Jim Burroway
October 6th, 2008
Ten years ago today, the world had never heard of Matthew Shepard. That’s because up until ten years ago today, he was just another 21-year-old gay college student at the University of Wyoming in Laramie.
Well, not just another college student. He had attended two years of high school at the American School in Switzerland during the time his family moved temporarily to Saudi Arabia. He had a particular talent for learning languages and he had a special love for community theater. In college, he was active in the university’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Association, and he was chosen as a student representative to the Wyoming Environmental Council. Friends described him as easy, outgoing, and approachable, with a special gift of relating to almost everyone.
And yet, he really was just another college kid. His mother, Judy Shepard, says he was ”just living his life as a 21-year-old college student who smoked too much, drank too much and didn’t study enough.”
But ten years ago today proved to be Matthew’s last full day as an ordinary college student.....
http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/10/06/3291------
RIP Matthew - your life changed my life for ever - you will never be forgotten.