Oliver Baez spent two months rehearsing a scene for a school play in which his character confronts another student about bullying a gay student who takes his own life.
After much preparation, the 12-year-old’s small scene turned into a big problem among school officials in Wheatland, Wyoming. At the last minute they canceled the anti-bullying play, saying it did not conform to school values and leaving the young cast without a stage.
“It was awful,” Baez said. “For the school to cancel it, it’s like saying that ‘LGBTQ should not be included in a society.’ Which is really awful and cruel.”
Twenty-five years after a watershed moment for the gay rights movement — the murder of Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old student in a university town not far from Wheatland — the canceled performances of “The Bullying Collection” show how far the LGBTQ+ community still has to go to gain acceptance in Wyoming and elsewhere.
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A local theater group, the Platte County Players, has permission to perform there and salvaged the rights to the play and sponsored the performance a month later at the high school, as originally planned.
Thanks for avoiding beating strawmen to death. It’s like you’re here with me, my wife, and our kids, trying to make it work ♥️
Yeah, all of your comments are strawmen, I’m aware. I’m extracting the actual argument you’re trying to make out of the strawmen, because clearly you do think everyone has an obligation to force themselves into a shitty relationship that makes them and their partner unhappy just because their parents or God said so, the position probably being projection from your life experience since you seem to like to bring up your parents.
My point is that that is the stance a religious nutjob takes, not a normal functioning human being, and saying “haha here’s a witty sarcastic comment about my dad cheating on my mom” doesn’t have any bearing on gay people’s relationships. You can get mad at other people’s happiness all you want, but at the end of the day you’re just crying over other people not conforming to your beliefs and getting mad that they won’t make themselves miserable for your sky daddy.
Leave your wife and kids when you feel like it for the happiness boost, got it. If you were a relationship counselor in my area I’d sign my wife up- you’re good.
Lol your entire point was that “gay relationship bad because some people want to cheat on their wife”. This has nothing to do with leaving kids, yet you’re trying to insert kids into the equation to make people feel bad about the concept of relationships based on consent. Stop being delusional. You can’t “leave your kids”.
Tell that to my gay dad
Nice joke, you can break down and make trolly remarks all you want, that doesn’t make society point and laugh at you any less.
Don’t think you can just leave this thread the second you aren’t happy with it.
What are you talking about? Your entire shtick is making dumb comments in a bid to shield your arguments under the guise of “haha it’s totally a funny troll” yet it doesn’t work because you’re still obviously getting offended by people telling you you’re wrong. Trolling doesn’t work when you’re being half-serious and actually identify with the undertones & beliefs you’re spouting. All I did was state that. I’m neutral with it because I’m not the poor sap that’s afflicted with your mental disease.
You can get offended with my comments all you want, your only stance against them is laughably easy to disprove and makes you look like a dumbass.
You’re… right. Under the guise of trolling I am absolutely seething right now. Your logic is just too sound to be refuted. Once you pointed out my mental disease with such grace despite your obvious passion I know I had met my match. I attempted to dodge with the gay dad comment, but you’re right it wasn’t funny. Also untrue as in my earlier comment I didn’t mention it was a gay brothel. I am now naked and writhing in your arms, held together by the sheer force of your big-brained embrace