€Any man's death diminishes me,€ wrote the poet John Donne, generically and appropriately mourning the death of any person, man, woman, or child. Today, in the mainstream media, expressions of diminishment and recognition are far more selective and politically correct than Donne could have envisioned.
For example, this week HuffingtonPost.com and various other liberal media observed the thirteenth anniversary of the senseless murder of 21 year old Wyoming college Matthew Shepard and a like number of media noted the quiet passing of 86 year old Frank Kameny. Last month, virtually none of the MSM made mention of the twelfth anniversary of the death of 13 year old Arkansan, Jesse Dirkhising, about the same media coverage accorded his torture and murder when it happened.
Dare I mention that Shepard and Kameny were committed homosexuals and that Jesse was an innocent, straight victim of homicidal, gay sadists? I will mention it since those facts remain the only distinctions to account for the media ignoring Jesse and lauding Shepard and Kameny.
Matthew Shepard accomplished significantly more by his death at the hands of two drunken sots outside Laramie, Wyoming than he did during his brief life. He became the poster boy for the LGBT community and eventually the cause c©lbre in their successful campaign for national hate crime legislation.
Though those laws ostensibly targeted any hate-thought crimes, they were primarily focused on allegations of discrimination against homosexuals, an ironic detail since hatred of gays was never proven as the motive in the trials of Shepard's murderers.
See HuffPo's article on Shepard and his mother's reflections on her son's death and legacy here . . .
Frank Kameny was a gay of a whole different color than Matthew Shepard.
Described by the San Francisco Chronicle as €a persistent, often brash activist€ who ultimately received a €welcome by a political establishment that had rejected him,€ the Chronicle's €SF Gate€ doesn't approach giving justice to Kameny's persistently brash activism which more closely approached domestic terrorism.
He helped create the Gay and Lesbian Alliance of Washington, D.C. which, by virtue of intimidation, was instrumental in the greatest travesty in American medicine, pressuring the American Psychiatric and Pschological Associations to alter their diagnoses of homosexuality from an abnormal, mental disorder, from €sexual deviancy€ and €moral depravity,€ to a variation on the norm.
(See the full story of that travesty here . . .)
Kameny later called December 15th, 1973, the day the new diagnoses were finalized, the day€we were cured en masse by the psychiatrists,€ as if gays could be €cured€ either en masse or individually via scaring the collective pants off the two APA's.
Nevertheless, SF Gate saw fit to acclaim him as a homosexual hero, an €authentic hero€ of American culture, according to one of his admirers.
There are popular heroes and then there are true heroes. I'll concede that Matthew Shepard and Frank Kameny are heroic to homosexuals, Shepard because he was murdered, Kameny because he made the APA €cure€ gays.
However, the only real hero in this story is the nonentity, the boy without a legacy, the boy who fought his gay attackers but whose death was so inconsequential to the media that they ignored his life, his death, and his remembrance, Jesse William Dirkhising.
May Matthew Shepard, Frank Kameny, and Jesse all rest in peace but may Jesse rest better. He was the only innocent of the three and he best deserves his rest.
(See all sources at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5716.)
For example, this week HuffingtonPost.com and various other liberal media observed the thirteenth anniversary of the senseless murder of 21 year old Wyoming college Matthew Shepard and a like number of media noted the quiet passing of 86 year old Frank Kameny. Last month, virtually none of the MSM made mention of the twelfth anniversary of the death of 13 year old Arkansan, Jesse Dirkhising, about the same media coverage accorded his torture and murder when it happened.
Dare I mention that Shepard and Kameny were committed homosexuals and that Jesse was an innocent, straight victim of homicidal, gay sadists? I will mention it since those facts remain the only distinctions to account for the media ignoring Jesse and lauding Shepard and Kameny.
Matthew Shepard accomplished significantly more by his death at the hands of two drunken sots outside Laramie, Wyoming than he did during his brief life. He became the poster boy for the LGBT community and eventually the cause c©lbre in their successful campaign for national hate crime legislation.
Though those laws ostensibly targeted any hate-thought crimes, they were primarily focused on allegations of discrimination against homosexuals, an ironic detail since hatred of gays was never proven as the motive in the trials of Shepard's murderers.
See HuffPo's article on Shepard and his mother's reflections on her son's death and legacy here . . .
Frank Kameny was a gay of a whole different color than Matthew Shepard.
Described by the San Francisco Chronicle as €a persistent, often brash activist€ who ultimately received a €welcome by a political establishment that had rejected him,€ the Chronicle's €SF Gate€ doesn't approach giving justice to Kameny's persistently brash activism which more closely approached domestic terrorism.
He helped create the Gay and Lesbian Alliance of Washington, D.C. which, by virtue of intimidation, was instrumental in the greatest travesty in American medicine, pressuring the American Psychiatric and Pschological Associations to alter their diagnoses of homosexuality from an abnormal, mental disorder, from €sexual deviancy€ and €moral depravity,€ to a variation on the norm.
(See the full story of that travesty here . . .)
Kameny later called December 15th, 1973, the day the new diagnoses were finalized, the day€we were cured en masse by the psychiatrists,€ as if gays could be €cured€ either en masse or individually via scaring the collective pants off the two APA's.
Nevertheless, SF Gate saw fit to acclaim him as a homosexual hero, an €authentic hero€ of American culture, according to one of his admirers.
There are popular heroes and then there are true heroes. I'll concede that Matthew Shepard and Frank Kameny are heroic to homosexuals, Shepard because he was murdered, Kameny because he made the APA €cure€ gays.
However, the only real hero in this story is the nonentity, the boy without a legacy, the boy who fought his gay attackers but whose death was so inconsequential to the media that they ignored his life, his death, and his remembrance, Jesse William Dirkhising.
May Matthew Shepard, Frank Kameny, and Jesse all rest in peace but may Jesse rest better. He was the only innocent of the three and he best deserves his rest.
(See all sources at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5716.)
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