“Drug deal gone bad.”
Exactly the truth. How can the myth/narrative of the gay martyr continue unchallenged for years?
That doesn’t excuse his death at all. Murderers should all spend life in prison (at the least), regardless of the race, color, ethnicity, age or gender of their victims.
It is the same way that a good man and American hero like Joseph McCarthy was able to be slandered and destroyed by the Left, who set the narrative via their allies in the Media, and have it last for 65+ years.
They tell the lie, hammer it over and over and over, repeat it in the media, include it in the history books, obliterate any dissenting views that contradict their narrative, and ensure the lie is cemented forever.
It is the way the Soviets handled this kind of thing.