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In 1998, Matthew Shepard was tortured and murdered in an anti-gay hate crime in Wyoming.

Shepard's case brought international attention to an extreme form of:
Gender roles
Gender identity
O Misogyny
Homophobia

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Matthew Wayne Shepard (December 1, 1976 – October 12, 1998) was a gay American student at the University of Wyoming who was beaten, tortured, and left to die near Laramie on the night of October 6, 1998.[1] He was taken by rescuers to Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins, Colorado, where he died from severe head injuries six days later.

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