Thursday marks 25 years since Matthew Shepard's death, but activists say LGBTQ+ rights are still at risk
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Thursday marks 25 years since the death of Matthew Shepard, an openly gay 21-year-old student at the University of Wyoming who succumbed to brutal injuries six days after being beaten by two young men and abandoned while tied to a fence in a remote area near Laramie.
Shepard's murder is remembered as one of the nation's most notorious and egregious hate crimes. It was also a watershed moment for the LGBTQ+ rights movement that would help catalyze legislation for years to come.
From the perspective of the movement's activists — some of them on the front lines since the 1960s — progress was often agonizingly slow, but it was steady.
Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference is typically a springboard for the company to announce new tech features for its software programs, and not as flashy as its yearly September event to trumpet its latest iPhone rollout. But this year, the WWDC could be a make-or-break moment for the tech giant.