Exposed: Homosexual Urban Legend: The Truth About Pfc. Barry Winchell
The brutal murder of Fort Campell, Kentucky soldier Pfc. Barry Winchell in the early morning hours of July 5, 1999 was brought to the small screen in a made-for-TV movie, "Soldier's Girl" in late May, 2003. The show aired repeatedly on Showtime in June.
Private First Class Barry Winchell has been pushed as a martyr against "homo-phobia" in the military. |
Pfc. Winchell was killed in his sleep by a fellow soldier, Pvt. Calvin Glover, who repeatedly struck him in the head with a baseball bat. The murder was immediately seized upon by homosexual activist organizations as an example of the alleged failure of the U.S. military's "Don't ask, Don't tell, Don't harass" policy instituted by former President Clinton. The homosexual group, Servicemembers' Legal Defense Network (SLDN), immediately sent representatives to Fort Campbell to begin an investigation into the murder of Winchell, who was rumored to be a homosexual.
Winchell became a martyr for homosexuals and his death was used as a propaganda tool to push the military into lifting any restrictions on homosexuals serving openly in the services.
The murder of Winchell, however, was complicated for homosexual groups. As the facts emerged about his secret life, the press began reporting about Winchell's visits to Connections, a homosexual bar in Nashville and his dating a drag queen who calls himself "Calpernia Addams." At the time, Addams was undergoing hormone treatments to become a "female" but could not afford the surgery to remove his sex organs-so he was living as a SheMale-neither male nor female. He has since completed the surgery.
The New York Times magazine ran a sympathetic article about Addams in its May 28, 2000 issue. The title says it all: "An Inconvenient Woman: In order to turn the murdered soldier Barry Winchell into a martyr for gay rights, activists first had to turn his girlfriend, Calpernia Addams, back into a man." Times writer David France is clearly on the side of Addams and Winchell and sees nothing abnormal about a man thinking he's really a woman. A representative from SLDN urged Addams to tell reporters that he was really a man, not a woman. And Rhonda White, with the Nashville Lesbian and Gay Coalition for Justice, described the dilemma: "Barry was dating an anatomical male. How can you say he was gay-bashed if he was dating a woman, you know?"
How did Winchell begin dating a drag queen from Nashville? And who is ultimately responsible for his death? Homosexual activists have claimed it was because of anti-gay hatred within the military. But the emerging facts of the case suggest something else.
Pfc. Winchell was first taken to Connections, the homosexual bar in Nashville, by his Army roommate Specialist Justin Fisher, who is currently serving 12 years in prison as an accessory to murder. Fisher received a reduced sentence through a plea bargain. Pvt. Glover, the killer of Winchell, is serving life in prison.
The young man who inspired the killing of Pfc. Barry Winchell suffers from a Gender Identity Disorder called "Transvestic Fetishism," wears women's underwear, and was sexually attracted to drag queens. |
Fisher is also the person who inspired Glover to actually kill Winchell. Why? Because, according to David France, Fisher had frequented Connections before and was fascinated with drag queens and the homosexual underworld. In fact, at one point, Fisher asked Calpernia Addams to fix him up with a drag queen named Kim Wayne Mayfield, who was still physically male. Fisher even groped and made out with Mayfield at a bar. Keith Caruso, a forensic psychiatrist who examined Fisher said he suffers from a Gender Identity Disorder known as "transvestic fetishism," which has led him to wear women's underwear for sexual satisfaction. In fact, Fisher had worn women's underwear since he was 14. Clearly, Fisher was a deeply troubled young man who apparently struggled with homosexual desires-and was attracted to the drag queen underworld.
"Soldier's Girl," portrays Fisher as being jealous of Addams' dating Winchell. From what has been reported so far about Fisher's relationship with Winchell, it appears that the murder of this young man was not due to "homophobia" or "anti-gay" hatred within the military. It was the result of Fisher's own repressed homosexual rage and jealousy. David Mason, a movie critic for the Scripps Howard News Service, reviewed "Soldier's Girl" on May 31, 2003. Mason noted: "… 'Soldier's Girl' shows what's really upsetting Fisher is the time Winchell is spending with Addams. Fisher, who acts violently because of alcoholism, and pill abuse, wants to reclaim Winchell for himself in the film." Calpernia Addams praised the film's accuracy in a press presentation for Showtime. He observed: "They really got the spirit of this story right. And that was just a kind and gentle man loving someone."
From the various media reports now emerging about the murder of Pfc. Winchell, it appears that the killing was inspired by Spec. Fisher's jealousy (fueled by his homosexual/transvestism) -not the result of alleged "homophobia" or anti-homosexual rage within the U.S. military. It was Fisher who frequented the homosexual bar long before Winchell; he introduced Winchell to Addams; and he engaged in homosexual fondling and kissing with a drag queen. It was Fisher who prodded Calvin Glover to murder Winchell. What has been promoted as a homophobic hate crime now appears to have been a crime of homosexual passion-in a bizarre love triangle involving a homosexual, a transsexual, and a closeted drag queen.