[color="transparent"]ATLANTA - Culture and laws have improved lives for LGBTQ+ individuals in the past two decades, yet the memorial to slain activist Matthew Shepard reminds presidential candidate Chase Oliver that more work remains.[/color]

[color="transparent"]Oliver visited Laramie, Wyoming, on Saturday, March 23, to commemorate the life of Matthew Wayne Shepard, a student at the University of Wyoming. [/color]

[color="transparent"]On Oct. 7, 1998, two men abducted the 21-year-old openly gay man and drove him to a remote area outside of Laramie. The men tied him to a fence, beat him with the butt of a pistol, and left him in the night’s cold. A bicyclist found him 18 hours later. Shepard died Oct. 12 in a hospital in Fort Collins, Colorado.[/color]

[color="transparent"]"Celebrating accomplishments should not deter us from what remains to be done," he adds. [/color]

[color="transparent"]“The anti-individual mindset persists in our country. No matter which side of the aisle you stand on, there is a great “they” somewhere to oppose."[/color]

[color="transparent"]Libertarians will choose the party’s standard bearer at the Libertarian National Convention in Washington DC on Memorial Day weekend.[/color]