In chapter 7 in Stone she talks about symbols which "are means of influence and control...[whose] meaning isn't isn't intrinsic in it but invested in it by the people who use it" (Stone 161).
A recent book came out which claims Matthew Shepard's death was not a hate crime but instead of a violent meth related death.
In a review of the book Out Editor Aaron Hicklin wrote:
There are valuable reasons for telling certain stories in a certain way
at pivotal times, but that doesn’t mean we have to hold on to them once
they’ve outlived their usefulness. In his book, Flagrant Conduct, Dale Carpenter, a professor at the University of Minnesota Law School, similarly unpicks the notorious case of Lawrence v. Texas,
in which the arrest of two men for having sex in their own bedroom
became a vehicle for affirming the right of gay couples to have
consensual sex in private. Except that the two men were not having sex,
and were not even a couple. Yet this non-story, carefully edited and
taken all the way to the Supreme Court, changed America.
In different ways, the Shepard story we’ve come to embrace was just as necessary for shaping the history of gay rights as Lawrence v. Texas;
it galvanized a generation of LGBT youth and stung lawmakers into
action. President Obama, who signed the Hate Crimes Prevention Act,
named for Shepard and James Byrd Jr., into law on October 28, 2009,
credited Judy Shepard for making him “passionate” about LGBT equality.
This argument has attracted strong opposition from groups such as media matters and the Matthew Shepard foundation,
Link of a roundup of responses to the book and an excerpt in the daily beast
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