I'm outta this one for the simple reason that I can't understand how gayness can be destructive, since I've known a couple of openly gay people over the decades, and only one was a little over the top, destruction-wise.
And I never heard of a bunch of gays hanging a straight guy on a fence, beating him up, and leaving him to die.
As far as my simple 82 year old mind can tell, most of the destructiveness I've seen has been from passionately self-righteous straights, not from passionately self-righteous gays.
Terry,
I also don't think homosexuals and transgenders are a threat (at least in and of themselves). Even violent groups like BLM and Antifa are not really a threat - by themselves. They are only people that more powerful leftists use as tools. Black/homosexual rights (both real and imaginary) are tools the Left uses. Most of the people pushing leftist social agenda items are straight and white. Some are true believers, but not all.
A lot of conservatives make the mistake of thinking that it's the homosexuals/blacks/etc that are doing this to us (whatever "this" is), and they verbally attack those groups. So I don't blame you, or anyone else, for thinking that conservatives perceive these groups as being primarily responsible/culpable.
In reality, social issues are used to paint people as bigots, discrediting them, and enforcing Leftist policies by intimidation. If you can be canceled for not baking a gay cake, you can also expect to be canceled for disagreeing with the $15 minimum wage. They're also used to disrupt and destabilize our culture - not by turning people gay, but by introducing doubt about the validity of our culture and nation, and morality and reality in general. The most obvious lies the Leftmedia tell these days are centered on race, sex, and gender.
So the point is, minority groups are just caught in the middle here. It's not about exalting or attacking them. It's about the Left using them as tools against America and Americans.
As for Matthew Shepard, the source you cited acknowledges that there's significant doubt he was killed because of his sexual orientation, and it doesn't exactly present much evidence the murderers were driven by self-righteous heterosexism. Maybe wounded male pride...