That "homophobes are closeted gays" is ridiculous. If you've seen examples of this you almost surely saw them on a fictional TV show.
I don't doubt that there are some, but they would be the exception. Most are just people who feel that it is morally wrong, many are parents worried that their children will be traumatized by molestation.
We always hear that most child molesters are heterosexuals. There are reasons for that. One is that a lot of 18 year old guys date the girls at their high school. There are plenty who are guilty of wantonly crossing the age barrier with people of the opposite sex, and while overwhelmingly male, we are seeing more and more high profile cases where the offender was a woman, often a teacher.
Probably the biggest reason, though, is the way their sexuality is determined by the police when they are processing them:they ask them. They don't spend taxpayers money on an investigation to prove someone gay, and someone who is going to appear before a jury certainly doesn't want to chance any extra hostility from a juror.
Despite the truism that "it's about power, not sex" a male havng a sexual encounter with another male is a homosexual act, down low factor or not.
Shepard got an incredible amount of nationwide ink and sympathy, without the media ever mentioning that he and his very familiar attackers were drug dealers and users and said to have been sexual partners. No, the narrative of straight, homophobic strangers fits the preferred media narrative better.
About the same time as the Shepard case a 13 year-old Arkansas boy named Jesse Dirkhissing (don't trust my spelling there) was raped to death by two gay life partners and a much younger boy named Jeffrey Curley was brutally raped and killed by gay neighbors. How many front page stories and TV movies have you seen about them?
And I think the previous posters are trying a little too hard to prove to us that they are straight.
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