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    Commentary: As LGBTQ+ rights are challenged, Matthew Shepard’s story is more vital than ever 25 years on

    by Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times Oct 12, 2023 4 minutes
    A pair of Matthew Shepard's sandals are displayed at the White House as part of the commemoration of LGBTQ+ Pride Month on June 25, 2021, in Washington, D.C. Shepard was a gay University of Wyoming student who was beaten, tortured and left to die near Laramie in 1998..

    It’s been 25 years since Matthew Shepard was discovered brutally beaten and left for dead near a wooden fence outside Laramie, Wyoming. He’d been there for 18 hours.

    Within days he’d become a household name, as broadcast and print news outlets from across the country amplified the story of an out 21-year-old college student who was seemingly attacked just for being gay. And his death on Oct. 12, 1998, would galvanize a movement to demand change.

    His story and legacy are revisited in “The Matthew Shepard Story: An American Hate Crime,” a documentary that premiered this week on Investigation Discovery (ID) and is now streaming on Max.

    “We wanted to celebrate Matthew’s life,” said

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