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Gay student savagely murdered 20 years ago laid to rest

Mathew Shepard finally laid to rest 2 decades after his savage murder. In 1998, a 21-year-old political science and foreign languages student at the University of Wyoming who wanted to become a diplomat, was lured away from a bar by two men pretending to be gay, who fatally beat him and left him to die [ Courtesy]

More than two decades after his savage murder shocked America and launched a reckoning about homophobic violence, Matthew Shepard was finally laid to rest Friday at Washington National Cathedral.

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