Matthew Shepard wasn't a victim of gay-bashing. He knew his murderer and no one in Laramie believes the guy was homophobic because he was a well-known bisexual in the area. Furthermore, he and Matthew had had sex together already (sometimes under sort of weird circumstances). Shepard's death was a drug-related murder. Lots of crazy shit …
Matthew Shepard wasn't a victim of gay-bashing. He knew his murderer and no one in Laramie believes the guy was homophobic because he was a well-known bisexual in the area. Furthermore, he and Matthew had had sex together already (sometimes under sort of weird circumstances). Shepard's death was a drug-related murder. Lots of crazy shit going down in Laramie. Read The Book of Matt, by Stephen Jiminez, a gay journalist, if you haven't already.
Shepherd was killed by two people, so right out the gate this book is wrong.
The guy had a death wish. He liked to come on to straight men, often violent-looking ones; he had been bashed several times but never stopped. When on a school trip to Morocco he'd snuck out at night looking for sex and gotten gang-raped. He was self-destructive and got turned on by risk.
No I am not saying he deserved what he got. Nobody does. But I am saying he summoned it.
You should read the book. I know there were two guys present; one didn't do much, just, allegedly, tied him to the fence. I don't think he'd had any sexual contact with Shepherd but the other guy had; there was some weird little gay culture going on there that both of them were a part of, involving drugs. The book was written by a respected gay journalist himself who found no one in Laramie thought Shepherd's murder was a gay bashing; it was widely known that Shepherd was involved with drugs, both consuming and selling and he'd recently screwed someone in a drug deal. He'd said to others for days before, that he was gonna get killed, that people were coming after him. No one in Laramie believed the guy who did the actual killing was homophobic, either; he was widely known to be bisexual, and also involved in the drug trade.
Matthew Shepard wasn't a victim of gay-bashing. He knew his murderer and no one in Laramie believes the guy was homophobic because he was a well-known bisexual in the area. Furthermore, he and Matthew had had sex together already (sometimes under sort of weird circumstances). Shepard's death was a drug-related murder. Lots of crazy shit going down in Laramie. Read The Book of Matt, by Stephen Jiminez, a gay journalist, if you haven't already.
Shepherd was killed by two people, so right out the gate this book is wrong.
The guy had a death wish. He liked to come on to straight men, often violent-looking ones; he had been bashed several times but never stopped. When on a school trip to Morocco he'd snuck out at night looking for sex and gotten gang-raped. He was self-destructive and got turned on by risk.
No I am not saying he deserved what he got. Nobody does. But I am saying he summoned it.
You should read the book. I know there were two guys present; one didn't do much, just, allegedly, tied him to the fence. I don't think he'd had any sexual contact with Shepherd but the other guy had; there was some weird little gay culture going on there that both of them were a part of, involving drugs. The book was written by a respected gay journalist himself who found no one in Laramie thought Shepherd's murder was a gay bashing; it was widely known that Shepherd was involved with drugs, both consuming and selling and he'd recently screwed someone in a drug deal. He'd said to others for days before, that he was gonna get killed, that people were coming after him. No one in Laramie believed the guy who did the actual killing was homophobic, either; he was widely known to be bisexual, and also involved in the drug trade.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/26/the-truth-behind-americas-most-famous-gay-hate-murder-matthew-shepard