September 19,
2013
Next
week, "The Book of Matt" by famed investigative journalist Stephen
Jiminez, is slotted for release. The book tells the true story behind the
murder of Matthew Shepard, who has become the angelic face of victimhood in the
gay rights movement. Shepard's murder
in 1998 launched a national effort, spearheaded by President Clinton, to push
for a hate crimes law including sexual orientation. It became the basis for
Hollywood's addiction to storylines involving the killing of gay men (see, for
example, "Brokeback Mountain"). Shepard, the mythology went, died for
America's homophobic sins.
There's only one problem. Shepard, according to Jiminez, was not killed because
he was gay.
His murderers, Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson, attempted the "gay
panic" defense in court — suggesting that Shepard had come onto them and
provoked them into murderous rage. But that wasn't true. Jiminez, who is gay,
reports that Shepard dealt methamphetamine, and that one of his murderers was a
sex partner. Even gay-journalistic icon Andrew Sullivan has endorsed Jiminez's
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