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Matthew Shepard Laid To Rest 20 Years After His Murder

Matthew Shepard, who became a symbol of the LGBTQ rights movement in the 1990s, was finally laid to rest today at Washington National Cathedral 20 years after his death. Although Shepard was cremated years ago, his family didn’t want to bury him in Wyoming fearing it would become a pilgrimage…