Heathers normally takes location in 1989, so certainly there is gonna be at least some of this, but the selection "Dead Gay Son" qualifies as a blend of this and an in-universe situation of Fair for Its Day right after JD (with Veronica's help) murders Jerk Jocks Kurt Kelley and Ram Sweeney, he will make their fatalities look like a suicide pact that paints them as star-crossed homosexual lovers, when in actuality, they were being homophobic.