Judy Shepard, LGBT activist and mom to slain gay hero, Matthew Shepard will be joining Katie Couric on Tuesday's episode of Katie.

According to the show, she'll be discussing Matthew's murder and how she helped change the views of a homophobic lead investigator assigned to the case. She'll also explain how she is carrying on Matthew's legacy today.

More after the jump!

The San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus (SFGMC) is hitting the road for a mini-tour in partnership with the Matthew Shepard Foundation and Wyoming and Colorado are their lucky destinations!!

More on their upcoming trek and how to get tickets after the jump!

A group of students in the Fargo South High School production of The Laramie Project might have a future in PR.

The students in question, all cast members in the school play, sent the Westboro Baptist Church emails from fake accounts in a request for the infamous hate group to bring a protest -- and the national attention that come with it -- to their school. Westboro, still not understanding that its lunacy and often-confusing signs afford its targets more positivity nowadays than the negativity it intends, took the bait and agreed to protest Fargo's play. However, when police caught wind of the impending Westboro visit, an investigation was launched and the fake emails from the students discovered. 

A spokesman for the school district...

A Bay Area high school is preparing to protest the protesters. After the nut jobs at the Westboro Baptist Church learned that Hillsdale High School was preparing a production of The Laramie Project, Fred Phelps and his gang of haters decided they would head west and protest on March 27.

Instead of backing down, the school and community are organizing a counter rally at the same time, where participants are being asked to wear white, as a sign of peace, or rainbow colors, as a sign of diversity.

What makes this Westboro protest a little more interesting than the group’s normal hate fests is that Phelps himself is depicted in the play, which chronicles the story and aftermath of Matthew Shepard’s murder. The church has protested...

If you plan to be in Hollywood this Saturday check out a special performance of "The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later."

Sure, the sequel of the iconic play is being performed at countless theaters across the country, but Saturday's show is unique: it's a one-time performance featuring an all-star cast including Zachary Quinto (Star Trek, Heroes), James Cromwell (Surrogates, Babe), Johnny Galecki (Big Bang Theory) AND all proceeds benefit The Matthew Shepard Foundation. If those items weren't enough incentive, Judy Shepard also plans to speak and sign copies of her book after the play.

Here's the 411:

Saturday, October 25

1:30 p.m.

Hollywood United Methodist Church

6817 Franklin Avenue, Hollywood

More info and tickets available here.

Producers of an updated version of The Laramie Project are hoping to find 100 theatres across the country to schedule a reading of the new play on October 12. The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later includes new interviews with the voices of the original production, as well as an interview with Aaron McKinney, one of the men convicted of murdering Matthew Shepard. According to Playbill, 50 theatres have already committed to a reading of the play on the agreed-upon date, and director Moisés Kaufman is confident at least 50 more will signup for the 80-minute play.

Surely, news of the long-awaited update on the iconic and emotional production is seeing the Phelps clan plan a scattering of protests. Still, injecting Matthew Shepard’s story...