A jury found a Missouri patrolman guilty Saturday of killg a gay llege stunt who had talked about revealg their sexual affair to the police chief.
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- THE TTH BEHD AMERI’S MOST FAMO GAY-HATE MURR
- DATELE TAILS SE OF MARRIED P WHO KILLED HIS SECRET GAY LOVER
- GAY STUNT'S DEATH HIGHLIGHTS TROUBLG TREND
THE TTH BEHD AMERI’S MOST FAMO GAY-HATE MURR
The horrific killg of Matthew Shepard 1998 is wily seen as one of the worst anti-gay hate crim Amerin history.
DATELE TAILS SE OF MARRIED P WHO KILLED HIS SECRET GAY LOVER
They pistol whipped him wh a gun then tied him to a fence eezg ndns and set fire to him before leavg him to attack beme a e célèbre: precipated a natnal backlash agast hyper-macho culture and tac tolerance of homophobia.
As a rult of Matthew’s ath, many good thgs have happened for the gay muny. Policians and celebri pledged support and fundg to bat anti-gay hate crime.
GAY STUNT'S DEATH HIGHLIGHTS TROUBLG TREND
The Shepard fay have bee mpaigners for gay rights. Jimenez has been acced of beg a revisnist, a cricism ually rerved for extreme rightwg iologu that ny the Holot, and labelled a homophobe.
When he started he was nvced that Matthew died at the hands of homophob, but he soon disvered that Matthew’s tragedy began long before the night he was killed. “This do not make the perfect poster boy for the gay-rights movement, ” says Jimenez. But this is not the Matthew Shepard who beme a celebrated figure for the gay-rights movement Ameri.
But the town also has a number of mobile home parks at the edg, some more ndown than the eveng of 6 October 1998, Matthew went to the Firi bar, a lol hangout that was purportedly gay-iendly.