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"We are sad to say that we failed to convince a local bar to pull these shirts from circulation," said Wyoming Equality in a Facebook post Saturday. According to The Washington Post, Sara Burlingame, executive director of Wyoming Equality, an LGBTQ advocacy group, confronted the bar owner regarding the shirts when she first became aware of them, but was unsuccessful in getting him to stop selling them.
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The shirts garnered national attention after photos of them circulated around Facebook, leading members of equality groups in the state to approach the bar owner. We shoot fuck’n faggots.” In addition to the text, the shirt depicts a man in a biker jacket aiming a gun. For years, the owner of the Eagle’s Nest, located in Cheyenne, sold shirts that said “In Wyoming, we have a cure for AIDS. Just miles away from the murder site of Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old college student who was killed in a hate crime against the LGBTQ community, a biker bar thought to profit from the town’s homophobia.
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Shepard was beaten, lashed to a fence post, and left to die by two Laramie, Wyoming, men. Two gay activists demonstrate in the streets of North Hollywood to protest against the death of Wyoming University student Mathew Shepard.