This ad for Human Rights Campaign hit over father's day and brought forward the father of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard, who died October 12, 1998, of wounds from a gay bashing after a short coma.

With a beautiful landscape behind him, Dennis Shepard says to the camera, "You know, my biggest regret after walking into the hospital and seeing him was that I didn't tell him enough as a father that I loved him.

"The thing that I have learned most is that your son is your son and your daughter is your daughter, regardless of whether they're straight or gay."