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• Saturday, February 23

  50 supporters back gay-themed play in Kalamazoo, but no Westboro protesters

  Source: Kalamazoo Gazette KALAMAZOO -- About 50 people from Kalamazoo and across the state showed up Friday night in support of those attending a gay-themed play at Kalamazoo Central High School. Protesters from Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., who said last week they planned to picket the student production of "The Laramie Project," failed to appear. A handful of "nonvocal" local residents protesting the play were said to have been at the high school campus. "They didn't challenge us," said Santiago Lopez, of the Kalamazoo Alliance for Equality, who stood... Posted Feb 23 2008, 05:35 PM by NewsEditor with | with no comments Filed under: activism, education, theater, state:MI

• Wednesday, February 20

  Laramie Project In Kalamazoo: 'This is a play about what is fracturing society'

  Source: Kalamazoo Gazette KALAMAZOO -- Emotions may run high inside and outside of Kalamazoo Central High School's presentation of Moises Kaufman's "The Laramie Project," which starts Friday. The play is based on more than 200 interviews Kaufman and others from the Tectonic Theater Project in New York did in Laramie, Wyo., after the October 1998 beating death of 21-year-old Matthew Shepard, a University of Wyoming student. The killing is widely considered a hate crime based on homophobia. Westboro Baptist Church, a Topeka, Kan.-based congregation that has picketed gay-pride events... Posted Feb 20 2008, 12:51 PM by NewsEditor with | with no comments Filed under: education, youth issues, theater, state:MI

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