Thursday, November 18, 2004
I don't get it. What's the point of bringing this up now?
Gee, anything to do with the 11 states that banned gay marriage on Nov. 2? Are there no new stories to report on? If the most famous gay hate crime in the country's recent past suddenly ceases to be about violent homophobia, what is accomplished? Hate crimes against gays no longer exist? There is no such thing, after all?
Is it possible the case of Matthew Shepard was not a hate crime? I totally buy the methamphetamine addiction angle. McKinney and Henderson paid for a pitcher of beer with dimes and nickels. Obviously they were hard up for cash and Shepard was sort of notoriously loaded.
They may have robbed him for the money but the punishment they chose to bestowed upon him was, even if only subconsiously, because he was gay. Because he was weak. Weak and fearless and optimistic and somehow more alive than they were. They hated that. And they wanted to kill that.
