Remembering Matthew Shepard, whose brutal murder sparked a national reckoning on homophobia

It’s now 23 years since Matthew Shepard was beaten, tortured and left to die in what remains one of the worst homophobic hate crimes in American history. Matthew Shepard was a 21-year-old student at the University of Wyoming when he was brutalised by two young men he met in a dive bar in Laramie, Wyoming …...