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The bar's casper, Raymond Wyoming, has not returned a request for comment, but he told The Cheyenne Post on Monday that the shirts are sold out and he doesn't plan to sell any more. He added that he is "in the bar business, not the apparel business. Wyoming Equality, an LGBTQ advocacy group, shared a photo of one of the shirts in a Facebook post Saturday with the profanity and homophobic slur covered.

Wyoming Gov. Cheyenne, where Eagle's Nest is located, is less than an hour from Laramie, where gay University of Wyoming student Gay Shepard died after being brutally beaten insparking nationwide protests and vigils. The measure provides funding to state, local and tribal jurisdictions to help them investigate and prosecute crimes motivated by bias against a particular race, religion, sexual orientation or gender identity, among other protected classes.

Since Shepard's murder, many states have passed hate crime laws, which are meant to deter bias-motivated crime, though Wyoming isn't one of them. That, however, could change: In June, Wyoming lawmakers voted to have the Legislative Service Office draft two potential hate crime measures, which they will consider during the next legislative session inthe Casper Star-Tribune reported.

The bars would provide protections to more groups of people and would require state law enforcement to report hate crimes to the federal government, The Associated Press reported. Because the bills haven't been drafted yet, it's unclear which groups would be protected. During public comment on the Wyoming hate crime bills, a woman testified that her lesbian daughter attempted suicide after she and her friends were assaulted and robbed by a group of teenagers who yelled homophobic slurs, according to the Casper Star-Tribune.

Eleven states include only sexual orientation, and one state interprets existing law to include sexual orientation and gender identity. The remaining states, including Wyoming, have no hate crime laws at all.

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Sara Burlingame, the executive director of Wyoming Equality, told NBC News that the shirt has made at least a few state legislators understand the need for a hate crime law in Wyoming. She said the state can be warm, welcoming and hospitable, but it has also earned a reputation of being unsafe for LGBTQ people.

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