We see that happening because people feel emboldened not only to say the things that are in their hearts, but they're also acting on them, everybody seems to be under attack unless you're white, straight and male.

Matthew Shepard

Matthew Wayne "Matt" Shepard was an American student at the University of Wyoming who was beaten, tortured and left to die near Laramie, Wyoming on the night of October 6, 1998, and died six days later at Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins, Colorado, on October 12, from severe head injuries.

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