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Loudoun Out Loud Kickoff:Leave a comment below if you want to attend.
A bit of background: As recently as 2005, some members of the Loudoun County School Board were discussing a policy that would have prohibited the presentation by our public school drama departments and clubs any work that acknowledges the existence of GLBT people. That ridiculous situation, largely created by former delegate Dick Black and some of his family members, was provoked by a student's original work. See Equality Loudoun archive. Although the policy eventually adopted by the board did not include unlawful viewpoint discrimination, the debate (which included threatening hate mail and some atrocious behavior at School Board meetings) did result in a chilling effect. The message was, as one drama department head put it, "Don't poke the bear." That era of self-censorship has now ended with the announcement that The Laramie Project has been selected as the spring play at Broad Run High School."
As to why we need to do this? Check out the comments at the Loudoun Times Mirror (HT David Weintraub).
Yaaaaaay!!!!!!! The Laramie Project is amazing. We had part of Act 1 as the "sermon" time in our church in October, about a week before the play's run. It was performed by our local community theater group and was simply excellent.
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