USA. Laramie, WY. 2016. who recently moved from Texas, is a gay pastor at St. Paul’s United Church of Christ in Laramie. “The big push now in Wyoming, since the religious groups and the citizens have gotten approval for gay marriage, is hate crime legislation. Laramie, due to Matthew Shepard, has a hate crimes ordinance, but at a state level it keeps getting defeated. It’s the next battle,” he says. The rainbow colored tattoo on his arm says ‘love’ in Hebrew.