01 March 2009
Tickets are on sale now for the sixth annual Matthew Shepard Scholarship Awards Dinner, Friday, June 5, 2009, at 7:45 p.m. at the Hy-Vee Conference Center in West Des Moines (Reception begins at 5:30 PM, Dinner at 6:45 PM, Program at 7:45 PM).
Steven Goldstein, Chair and CEO of Garden State Equality, will deliver the keynote address. Spokesman Mike Pace will emcee the evening and members of the Des Moines Gay Men's Chorus will present a special musical performance.
The Matthew Shepard Scholarship is named in memory of Matthew Shepard, a University of Wyoming college student brutally murdered ten years ago. He was kidnapped, savagely beaten and left to die tied to a fence, because he was gay. The Scholarship honors openly gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Iowa high school students who work to promote tolerance and non-discrimination in their schools and communities.
The Matthew Shepard Scholarship Awards Dinner is open to the press.