Matthew Shepard Was Not Killed For Being Gay

When I get some time, I have been going through old posts and trying to save them or nixing them. As I was rooting around for some video to use for one of these “saves” --(“Some ‘Ghey Talk’ Regarding Same-Sex Marriage” | June 8, 2010: https://tinyurl.com/569mnpad)-- I came across an unrelated video that I decided to update an old post with this excerpt. This old post is a 2010 update of an older post (October 27, 2009).

I used the video found researching the above to update the following post:

》》What "Counts" as a Hate Crime? (RPT FLASHBACK): https://tinyurl.com/2ehcfyd5

This updated version includes this video of extended input from the author of the book, “The Book of Matt: The Real Story of the Murder of Matthew Shepard (Truth to Power) [https://tinyurl.com/37x94479],” Stephen Jimenez. Here are the original video sources used, in order:
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■ Paul Nathanson Deposition in Perry v. Schwarzenegger (Excerpt): https://youtu.be/FylixiSFwqg (11/2009)
■ Bay Sunday: Stephen Jimenez, author: "The Book of Matt": https://youtu.be/vkyDLpBPVHE (KPIX CBS CHANNEL 5, SF Bay Area – 5/2014)
■ Book TV: Stephen Jimenez, "The Book of Matt": https://youtu.be/OzWKO7cMwa4 (C-SPAN2 BOOK TV - 10/2013)
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➤ As gay journalist Aaron Hicklin, writing in The Advocate asks, “How do people sold on one version of history react to being told that the facts are slippery — that thinking of Shepard’s murder as a hate crime does not mean it was a hate crime? And how does it color our understanding of such a crime if the perpetrator and victim not only knew each other but also had sex together, bought drugs from one another, and partied together?” (𝐸𝑁𝐿𝐼𝐺𝐻𝑇𝐸𝑁𝐸𝐷 𝐿𝐼𝐵𝐸𝑅𝐴𝐿 /𝐺𝐴𝑌 𝐶𝑂𝑁𝑆𝐸𝑅𝑉𝐴𝑇𝐼𝑉𝐸: “Matthew Shepard Killed By Gay Lover?” - https://tinyurl.com/37r3rpt3)

A decent article from the NEW YORK POST is here: “‘Uncomfortable Truth’ in Matthew Shepard’s Death”: https://tinyurl.com/mr2k773w (11/2013). As well as this excellent interview article of Stephen Jimenez by Mark Adnum: “Matthew Shepard: Some Facts” (https://tinyurl.com/bdhfk36t - 04/2020)

Another 𝑬𝑿𝑪𝑬𝑳𝑳𝑬𝑵𝑻 video of with Stephen Jimenez is this one: “How My Research Into Matthew Shepard’s Murder Began” (THE DISH’S Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/74215523)

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