What if the most notorious murder of a gay man wasn’t a hate crime? This is the question that motivated Ben Kawaller’s recent report from Laramie for The Free Press. A generation ago, Matthew Shepard was brutally murdered in what appeared to be a homophobic attack in the Wyoming town. In the aftermath, gay activists, supported by the media, presented sm…
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