Wasn’t Shepard killed as a result of a drug deal, not because he was gay? And the left is lying avout it?
But it’s not misinformation when they do it.
From Wikipedia (and not as biased as usual) including my additions in brackets:
“In 2013 [Stephen] Jimenez [himself a homosexual] published The Book of Matt, an analysis of the murder of Matthew Shephard. Jimenez first visited Laramie shortly after the murder, planning to write a screenplay and believing that the murder was a straightforward homophobic killing.[20] Jimenez spent 13 years researching the murder, and came to the conclusion that Matthew and one of the men convicted of his murder were involved in the illegal trade in crystal meth.[21][22] Jimenez has said his motivation for writing the book as a desire to show that “the popular narrative (of homophobic murder) served a purpose, but it’s only one thread of a bigger, richer, more challenging story whose lessons we have barely learned. To avoid topics of addiction, including how crystal meth ravaged the queer community (and Matt’s life), is not helpful to anyone.
[if I remember correctly, I think Jimenez even stated that it was probable that Shepard had engaged in sex with one of his killers]
...spot on....this is a snippet from another web site’s article on the same subject.....he was NOT killed because he was homosexual but rather, a drug deal gone horribly wrong..
“....It wasn’t until the prominent gay journalist Stephen Jimenez published his 2013 book, The Book of Matt: Hidden Truths About the Murder of Matthew Shepard, that those gaps started to narrow significantly. McKinney and Shepard reportedly were connected by the drug trade, with Shepard set to receive a $10,000 shipment of methamphetamine around the time he was killed. Also relevant is that McKinney was allegedly not traumatized by advances from Shepard, as the two had been sexually involved.
“In other words, Shepard’s murder was almost certainly fueled by disagreements over money and drugs rather than gay identity, something that [another individual] confirmed in an interview from prison with the Associated Press in 2018.”
Correct.