Matthew Shepard died 10 years ago today. Box Turtle Bulletin has an excellent series on what happened outside Laramie and in the hospital in Ft. Collins. You can read the whole series by going to the bottom of this link to find the first day.
Then you could Google Judy Shepard to find an article in any number of papers about what she has said over the last few days about the 10 years since her son was killed. We've made some headway -- 31 states now have hate crime laws that include sexual orientation -- but not nearly enough. We don't have one in Wyoming and we don't have one at the national level. And hate crime laws are the bare minimum of what gays need.
That bit of history contrasts with the hate stirred up by the GOP, a contrast that is disgusting. Here's another article about that tactic. I'm only linking it because one of the commenters says the GOP will say if anything ugly actually happens (and it doesn't need to directly involve Obama), "It's an isolated incident."
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