In what he called “one of our favorite events at the White House” on Friday, President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, to 19 exemplary ...

Beloved LGBTQ+ advocate Judy Shepard is among the 19 honorees who will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the U.S., the White House announced on Friday. The ...

In October 1998, the LGBT community was hit hard by news that a gay, 21-year-old University of Wyoming student had been tied to a fence, severely beaten and left for dead. Coming as it did during a ...

The mother of a slain gay college student and the first female speaker of the U.S. House will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, President Joe Biden ...

Judy Shepard will speak at Roanoke College on Wednesday. After her son’s death, Judy Shepard saw Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson as proof of a cruel, intolerant world. The two young men had ...

In a decade-long campaign, a Wyoming mother wants her message of love for her homosexual son to overcome the hate crime that killed him. Judy Shepard of Casper, Wyo., arrived in Rapid City to talk ...

On Tuesday, Oct. 18, Judy Shepard will give a free public lecture, "The Legacy of Matthew Shepard," at 8 p.m. in the Carroll College Campus Center. Shepard is the mother of Matthew Shepard, the ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Judy Shepard is a Co-Founder and Exec. Dir. for the Matthew Shepard Foundation with eight videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1999 Forum. The year ...

Judy Shepard – Photo: The Matthew Shepard Foundation Subscribe free to Metro Weekly’s digital magazine for the stories that matter most. Judy Shepard, the mother of gay rights icon Matthew Shepard and ...