Matthew Shepard

Nov 22, 2008: The Laramie Project at The Empty Space

This emotionally charged play has over 15 actors portraying over 60 characters based on hundreds of interviews by members of the Tectonic Theater Project documenting the events surrounding the brutal murder of Matthew Shepard....

Radical antigay church expands protest

A radical Kansas church's planned protest this weekend at a Grosse Pointe South High School play has expanded to also include protests at Christ Church in Grosse Pointe Farms and both the Canadian and Mexican consulates in...

Syracuse Man Murdered for Being Gay; Police Investigating as Hate Crime

WASHINGTON — November 17, 2008 — The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender civil rights organization, issued a statement today on the murder of Moses “Teish” Cannon, 22, who was...

Gay Marriage: A Basic Right! A Just Demand!

"I know what can happen if you really don't have marriage equality under the law and a lot of the rights that are bestowed on heterosexuals just for being married are just not granted. I know what can happen to you in a...

Remembering Rita Hester

On Nov. 20 transgender activists and their allies will gather in Allston to remember Rita Hester, a woman whose murder 10 years ago shook the local trans community to its core and transformed the way people across the country...

Bewitched Again: 'Pal Joey', with Hoff, Channing, Plimpton, Returns to Broadway (Playbill)

Playbill - Pal Joey, the groundbreaking 1940 Rodgers and Hart musical that focuses on a selfish Chicago club performer and his decent girlfriend, cougar mistress and dreams of owning his own nightspot, returns to Broadway Nov....

Local news in brief: Flu season becomes official with first 2 cases confirmed

The state has confirmed the first two cases of flu in the state, in a 49-year-old Wayne County man and a 5-year-old Oakland County child. Neither has been hospitalized. State officials say it is too early to tell how severe...

heterosexist privilege: expecting queers to adhere to a normative model of activism

This is a good point, although Savage doesn’t make the conclusion I’m going to: It’s bigoted to expect queers to adhere to a certain normative model of what activism is supposed to look like, what counts as the right kind of...

"On The First Day Of School, Nothing Happened"

"On The First Day Of School, Nothing Happened" The American Prospect: "In Loveland, Colorado -- population 61,000, 92 percent white and heavily evangelical Christian -- Michelle didn't know what to expect when she began to work...

Wyoming college town reflects 10 years after murder

LARAMIE, Wyo. — It’s here, where the biting winds blow across the surrounding arid landscape and carry the soft sound of a train whistle, that many in this small college town still struggle with the aftermath of one of the...

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