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I just thought you guys would like to know that maybe times are changing. This years senior play is the Laramie Project the play written about Matthew Shephard. I haven't seen it yet only the 40 minut preview they gave us in school. What I saw was very very very good. I hope to go Saturday night to see it but we will have to see.
love
andy
Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?
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Registered: January 1970
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I've never seen it, only heard. But what I've heard is that people go in without a care and come out in tears, seeing for the first time the pain that was Matthew's life and last day. It's impossible to believe that anyone with a conscience and a heart could see what happened through his eyes and not be humbled. He was gay, of course he was, but it's not really that. It's that he was a beautiful boy, only wanting to life a happy productive life when he came into harm's way. I'd love to see it but I'm afraid that I wouldn't be able to breathe.
smith
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You guys are so lucky in that regard. Cherish that opportunity. 
Hugs n take care lil treehugger!
-L
"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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I would love to go as well...
But, now, I do not think I can handle it.
You said when you'd die that you'd walk with me every day
And I'd start to cry and say please don't talk that way
With the blink of an eye the Lord came and asked you to meet
You went to a better place but He stole you away from me
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Have any of you seen the HBO special of the same name?
Is it based on that same play?
Just curious
Kevin:-/
"Be excellent to each other, and, party on dudes"!
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The times are definitely changing, Andy; unfortunately, though, the change isn't universal.
You yourself have told me you live in a pretty "liberal" town (and have acknowledged how lucky you feel about that), something which many people here wish they could say, too. Whereas your school can present that play with little if any fear of repercussion (and they are to be commended for doing so), there are many others for which it would be totally unthinkable.
I do hope you get to go and see it, Andy, and then let us know all about it (especially your thoughts and feelings on it).
We do not remember days...we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese
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Sadly, smith, there are people who are bereft of conscience and heart; if everybody did have a conscience and a heart, then Matthew would be alive and well today and living happily with the man he loves.
There is a documentary film named "Dear Jesse" in which the film-maker, having left his native North Carolina several years earlier basically because he had had his fill of living in the same state as Senator Jesse Helms (one of the most bigoted homophobes of all time), goes back to make this film pointing out how repressive life was (and still is, I fear) in his home state. Tagged onto the film as an "afterthought" was the scene of a demonstration against Helms and his stand on gay rights attended by college students from all over the country. Among them were Matthew Shepard and his boyfriend. Like you, smith, my first and only impression on seeing him was, "What a mild, gentle and beautiful young man! How could anybody want to cause him even the slightest harm?" Tragically, I knew all too well.
I haven't seen the play, but I have seen the movie (yes, Kevin, from what I understand the movie was based on the play). It left me almost beyond being unable to breathe, but it should be required reading and viewing in every school (intolerant Bible-thumpers be damned)....
We do not remember days...we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese
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So I just got home. My mom and I went to the play. It was um intense to say the least. The seniors did an amazing job and I am very, very, impressed. As for the content and all that... I have nothing really to say. It was rough.
Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?
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