May 4, 2006
Hate Crime Is a Life-Changing Event for Young Charity Director
Gregory Lewis never met Matthew Shepard. But when Mr. Shepard was murdered in October 1998 in an anti-gay hate crime, his death profoundly changed the course of Mr. Lewis's life.
At the time, Mr. Lewis was 23 and looking for direction. As a teenager, he graduated from a high school on Long Island, in New York, and moved to Los Angeles where he began working toward a degree in architecture at the University of Southern California. But a change of heart, along with an intense bout of
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