IT’S LIKE WE’VE BEEN FED A BUNCH OF POLITICALLY USEFUL LIES, OR SOMETHING: ‘Almost Everything You Think You Know About the Matthew Shepard Narrative is False.’ “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?”