The gay establishment has a vested interest in keeping certain fires brightly burning, chiefly to keep their wallets fat and getting fatter, and to keep their issues on the boil.
To this day, gay elites dine out on the grisly murder of Matthew Shepard who they falsely claim was murdered by strangers because he was gay. In fact, according to voluminous research by award-winning gay journalist Stephen Jimenez—who spent months on the ground in Laramie, Wyoming—Shepard was murdered by a fellow drug dealer who was also his occasional gay sex partner. The dispute that led to his torture and murder was a drug deal gone bad. Gay power-brokers refuse to accept this because Shepard’s murder was so useful to their movement and their pocketbooks. His death became an immediate and long-lasting cause célèbre.