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On October 6, 1998, 21 year old college student Matthew Shepard was tied to a fence in Laramie, Wyoming, pistol whipped, then left for dead in the freezing night. He died six days later.
Brandon Teena
Born Teena Brandon and raised as a girl, he was living as a man known as Brandon Teena in Falls City, Nebraska, when he was murdered at age 21. In December of 1993, two men who discovered his gender raped him. His attackers later shot and killed him after learning Brandon had reported the rape and was to help police in the investigation.
Danny Overstreet
On September 22, 2000 a man looking to "waste some faggots" entered a gay bar in Roanoke, Virginia and opened fire, killing Danny Overstreet and wounding 6 others.
JR Warren
On the fourth of July, 2000, JR Warren, 26, who was black and gay, was beaten to death by three men in West Virginia, then run over by a car to make it look like a hit and run.
PFC Barry Winchell
Pfc. Barry Winchell, 21, was beaten to death by fellow service members while sleeping in his cot on July 5, 1999 at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. His Army colleagues thought (correctly) that he was gay, so they killed him.
Billy Jack Gaither, 39, of Sylacauga, Alabama was bludgeoned to death by two men on February 19, 1999, then set on fire with automobile tires because he was gay.
Bill Clayton
On May 8, 1995, Bill Clayton, 17, committed suicide after having been brutally assaulted for being bisexual.
Tyra Hunter
On August 7, 1995, Tyra Hunter died after DC fire department emergency medical technicians called her epithets, backed away, and refused to render treatment on discovering that she was a transgendered woman.
Scotty Weaver
On July 18, 2004, Scotty Weaver, 18, was beaten, stabbed, strangled, body hacked deeply, dumped, and burned - because he was gay in Alabama. The body was found July 22, 2004.