Couldnt they honor Rock Hudson, the first celebrity to die of AIDS, instead? Milk wasnt even killed because he was gay. He was collateral damage.
Well they could use Matthew Shepard...oh wait he was killed for being a drug dealer
He wasn't a drug dealer. If he was, why didn't they find ANY drugs on him or in his apartment? And if it was a drug deal gone bad, why did these homophobes beat the boy senseless and set him on fire? Why wouldn't they just shoot him in the street? Use what little of your brain you have left and think about it.
Use your big head and do some research.
Matthew Shepard s murder wasn t hate crime claims Stephen Jimenez s new book Daily Mail Online
New claims have been made about the murder of gay college student Matthew Shepard in 1998 saying that his death was not actually a hate crime like it has so often described.
Journalist Stephen Jimenez claims that Shepard was pistol whipped, beaten and tortured before being tied to a fence and left to die not because he was gay but because his attackers were high on meth and wanted to take his money.
Attackers Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson were both given life sentences and spoke out in 2004 saying that they had been on methamphetamine fore days before the October 6, 1998 beating in Laramie, Wyoming but gay rights activists have blasted the book for being an attempt at re-writing history.
Jimenez maintains that over the course of more than 100 interviews with people with connections to the case he discovered that Shepard was made into a gay rights martyr after the fact.
He claims to have found a previously-sealed letter in the court filings on the case where a local male hustler wrote that Aaron McKinney 'really did like having sex with gay guys, that he wasn't unfamiliar with homosexuality and the gay world'.
If that claim is true, it would dent the argument that the beating death was based around the attacker's fear of homosexuality.
In earlier interviews, Jimenez says that McKinney and Henderson believed that Shepard was going to trade them drugs in return for sex and that they decided to rob him.