Matthew Shepard Archives - New Ways Ministry

For All the Saints (Part Two)

November 2, 2019/4 Comments/in Personal Stories /by Francis DeBernardo, Editor

A few days ago, Bondings 2.0 asked its readers: “If you could canonize any LGBTQ person or ally, living or dead, Catholic or not, fictional or real, who would it be, and why?” Here are more responses. Read More

Exhibit Features Art of Fr. William Hart McNichols, an Openly Gay Priest and Longtime LGBT Advocate

December 24, 2018/0 Comments/in Arts, Books & Culture, LGBTQ Clergy & Religious, Personal Stories /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

An exhibit earlier this year featured the art of William Hart McNichols, an openly gay priest and LGBT advocate known by the many for beautiful icons he has written such as "The Passion of Matthew Shepard." Read More

Former V.P. Joe Biden Promotes LGBT Acceptance ‘As You Are’

August 30, 2018/2 Comments/in Marriage & Family, Schools & Youth /by Catherine Buck

The Biden Foundation, a charitable organization founded by former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, is seeking stories from LGBTQ+ people as part of their new campaign, As You Are: A Family and Community Acceptance Campaign. In their press release, the foundation expressed the initiative as seeking to “raise awareness of the importance of family acceptance in the lives of LGBTQ young people.” Read More

CATHOLIC LGBT HISTORY: Responding to the Murder of Matthew Shepard

December 27, 2017/0 Comments/in Anti-LGBTQ Criminalization, Hierarchy, Politics & Human Rights /by Francis DeBernardo, Editor

The United States and the world were stunned and horrified 19 years ago when the battered and tortured body of gay Wyoming college student Matthew Shepard was found tied to a prairie fence outside Laramie. Read More