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Last week marked the anniversary of Matthew Shepard’s death… a story told so many times over the years, nobody ever questioned if it was real. The country was told that a young, gay college student was murdered by two homophobic rednecks in small-town Wyoming and that his brutal death became the rallying cry for an entire LGBTQ movement.

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This moment for the LGBTQ movement was their version of the George Floyd moment for Black Lives Matter in terms of cultural and political impact.

But as the years passed, the picture started to shift and change. Evidence surfaced that much of the original story was carefully crafted and politically weaponized. The neat, moral narrative sold to America wasn’t the full truth… and ironically, it was a gay investigative journalist who exposed what really happened.

This recent X post sums up exactly what so many people are just now realizing… the Matthew Shepard story wasn’t just a tragedy; it was also fake.

AJAC:

This one of the most significant cultural Psyops of my adolescence

The LGBTQ movement constructed a careful narrative that Shepard was murdered for being gay, started a foundation around it

It was heavily propagated on colleges and K12 education, student groups

It was all a LIE.

In truth he was a meth dealer and mule and and was killed over owing his supplier money

The truth was heavily suppressed and the reporter that investigated it had his career ruined by the gay media mafia

What’s really concerning is that 27-years later, most people still believe the Shepard case is settled history and that he’s the official martyr for gay rights and the reason we all believe in violent/gay-hating rednecks.

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But in 2013, journalist Stephen Jimenez wrote “The Book of Matt: Hidden Truths.” After 13 years of interviews, he argues that the headline story, “hate crime murder because he was gay,” is totally incomplete. As a matter of fact, Jimenez suggests crystal meth was likely the real motive.

The Guardian:

But the Matthew Shepard story is not yet finished. A new twist came last year with the publication of another book, this one by investigative journalist Stephen Jimenez, who has spent 13 years interviewing more than 100 people with a connection to the case. His conclusion, outlined in The Book of Matt: Hidden Truths about the Murder of Matthew Shepard, is that the grotesque murder was not a hate crime, but could instead be blamed on crystal meth, a drug that was flooding Denver and the surrounding area at the time of Matthew’s death. This new theory has, understandably, caused a lot of anger.

Jimenez has faced a barrage of criticism since the publication of his book and has had readings to promote the book boycotted. Jimenez claims, however, that many of his critics have not actually read it. The Advocate, America’s leading LGBT magazine, published a piece last year entitled: “Why I’m Not Reading the ‘Trutherism’ About Matt Shepard”. Jimenez has been accused of being a revisionist, a criticism usually reserved for extreme rightwing ideologues that deny the Holocaust, and labelled a homophobe.

This is a massive foundational truth shift.

Jimenez is saying the entire national movement was built on a “hate crime” narrative that ignored or covered up some very inconvenient facts, like drug use, prior relationships, and motivation that went far beyond homophobia.

That changes everything. It’s like saying, “There was no murder: George Floyd died from a fentanyl overdose.”

Sadly, Jimenez found out very quickly that when you unearth left-wing lies, you become the next target. He was savagely smeared before people even had a chance to crack open the book. Basically, the LGBTQ radicals and their left-wing cohorts made sure nobody heard the real story. That’s why 27 years after his murder, we’re still pretending he was killed because he was “gay.”

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The evidence and motives in the case don’t point to “gay hate” as the reason for the murder. Jimenez’s investigation paints a very different picture of Shepard… not some innocent victim targeted for who he was, but a young man caught up in the dark underbelly of meth, prostitution, and very sketchy and dangerous connections. None of that, of course, ever made the headlines.

The Guardian piece continues.

Jimenez found that Matthew was addicted to and dealing crystal meth and had dabbled in heroin. He also took significant sexual risks and was being pimped alongside Aaron McKinney, one of his killers, with whom he’d had occasional sexual encounters. He was HIV positive at the time of his death.

“This does not make the perfect poster boy for the gay-rights movement,” says Jimenez. “Which is a big part of the reason my book has been so trashed.”

Matthew’s drug abuse, and the fact that he knew one of his killers prior to the attack, was never explored in court. Neither was the rumour that the killers knew that he had access to a shipment of crystal meth with a street value of $10,000 which they wanted to steal.

Matthew was born into an affluent family and had attended state school in Casper, Wyoming. The 21-year-old political science major at Laramie University stood only 5ft 2in, and his blond hair, braces and slight frame gave him an air of vulnerability and innocence. In his junior year of high school, Matthew moved with his family to Saudi Arabia. There were no American high schools in Saudi at the time, so he was sent to the American School in Switzerland. By the time he enrolled at Laramie he spoke three languages and had aspirations to be a human-rights advocate. Somewhere along the line, however, Matthew fell from being a grade-A student to a drug-addicted prostitute who diced with danger. He suffered periods of depression, possibly as a result of being gang raped a few years earlier while on holiday in Morocco. But this is not the Matthew Shepard who became a celebrated figure for the gay-rights movement in America.

Suddenly Matthew isn’t the pristine martyr.

Now, that doesn’t excuse murder, but it destroys the fairy-tale version the media and LGBTQ power players shoved down our gullets. The story we were told to believe went like this: “He was gay. Rednecks hated him. Rednecks killed him.”

But reality told a totally different tale.

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The Guardian Piece goes on:

I spoke to Waters, who has since retired from the police, having seen him praise The Book of Matt on social media. “I believe to this day that McKinney and Henderson were trying to find Matthew’s house so they could steal his drugs. It was fairly well known in the Laramie community that McKinney wouldn’t be one that was striking out of a sense of homophobia. Some of the officers I worked with had caught him in a sexual act with another man, so it didn’t fit – none of that made any sense.”

But when Matthew’s friends Walt Boulden and Alex Trout heard of the attack they rushed to the hospital. They contacted the Associated Press and a number of local gay organisations that same day. Boulden, a 46-year-old college instructor who says he was the last person to talk to Matthew before he met McKinney and Henderson, linked the attack to Wyoming legislature’s failure to pass a hate-crimes bill. Boulden later said the assault was identified as a hate crime by a policeman.

Stephen Jimenez is an award-winning journalist and gay man. So why has he put such time and effort into attempting to prove that Matthew’s murder was not a hate crime, especially as it has seen him accused of being an ally to the rightwing Christian fundamentalists who deny the reality of homophobia?

“The view was that homophobic rednecks walked into a bar and saw an obviously gay man with money and targeted him and beat him to death for that reason,” says Jimenez. “But that isn’t what happened. Nothing in this book takes away from the iniquity and brutality of the crime or the culpability of his murderers, but we owe Matthew and other young men like him the truth.

When a cop who worked the case says he never believed McKinney was driven by hate but by drugs, that’s a pretty explosive contrast to the redneck fairy tale the public was force-fed. Friends, local leaders, and the media all pushed the same version of events, and they got exactly the outcome they wanted.

The truth about Matthew Shepard is still one of the best-kept secrets and psyops in modern America. But it does raise a question: twelve years from now, will another journalist step forward to write the real story of what happened to George Floyd and Derek Chauvin?

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