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Matthew Shepard
(Associated Press)
Matthew Shepard – whose 1998 murder in Wyoming sparked outrage against gay fanaticism and violence – will be buried this month at Washington's National Cathedral, Fox 5 D.C. reports.
Protesters came to Shepard's funeral with anti-gay placards. His family, fearing that his last resting place would become a target, kept his ashes while searching for a permanent place for them, according to the channel.
"We thought a lot about Matt's last resting place and we found that Washington's National Cathedral was an ideal choice because Matt loved the Episcopal Church and felt welcomed by his Wyoming church," he said. his mother Judy Shepard, according to Fox 5
On October 26, the ashes will be buried in an isolated niche of the cathedral, known as the "spiritual home of the nation," Smithsonian magazine reported on Friday, on the twentieth anniversary of Shepard's death.
The gay college student from the University of Wyoming was beaten and tortured on the outskirts of Laramie by two men who left him tied to a fence.
Shepard stayed suspended there, cold and bleeding for 18 hours, until it was discovered by a cyclist who originally thought that he was a scarecrow, reported the Smithsonian. He died at the hospital a few days later, on October 12, 1989.
The killers, Russell Henderson and Aaron McKinney, are each serving a life sentence.
Shepard's name is written into a 2009 law that committing an act of violence against a homosexual person is a hate crime.
