Why Matthew?

http://www.southernvoice.com/2008/10-17/news/national/9300.cfm
10/17/2008

It is impossible to comprehend the loneliness Matthew Shepard might
have felt as he hung from a rickety fence for almost 18 hours in a
barren Wyoming field. If he was conscious during that time on Oct. 7,
1998, he may have wondered if anyone would come to his rescue after
being beaten to within an inch of his life, and he probably knew that
the reason he was beaten, the reason he was hanging on the fence, was
because he was different.