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The Laramie Project is a play by Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project about the reaction to the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming. The murder is widely considered to be a hate crime motivated by homophobia.[1] The Laramie Project is a 2002 drama film written and directed by Moisés Kaufman. ... The initialism LGBT also GLBT is in use (since the 1990s) to refer collectively to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender people. ... Queer studies is the study of issues relating to sexual orientation and gender identity. ... Image File history File links Gay_flag. ... This article is about same-sex desire and sexuality among women. ... GAY can mean: Gay, a term referring to homosexual men or women The IATA code for Gaya Airport Category: ... “Bisexual” redirects here. ... 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The play draws on over 200 interviews conducted by the theatre company with inhabitants of the town, company members' own journal entries and published news reports. The play is divided into three acts and eight actors portray more than sixty characters in a series of short scenes.

Performances

The play premiered at The Ricketson Theatre by the Denver Center Theatre Company (Denver) (part of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts) in February 2000 and was then performed in the Union Square Theater in New York City before a November 2002 performance in Laramie itself. The Denver Center for the Performing Arts is a performing arts complex located in Denver, Colorado. ... Union Square Park (also known as Union Square) is an important and historic intersection in New York City, located where Broadway and the Bowery came together in the early 19th century. ...

The Laramie Project has since been performed by a number of schools and colleges, as well as professional players in countries such as the US, the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.

The current holder of the royalties/rights to the play is Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Many of the performances in the US have been picketed by representatives of Fred Phelps, who is portrayed in the play owing to his picketing of Matthew Shepard's funeral and the trial of his murderer. [2]. Fred Waldron Phelps, Sr. ...

Film

As a result of the play's success, HBO commissioned a 2002 film of The Laramie Project, also written and directed by Kaufman. For other uses, see HBO (disambiguation). ... This article is about motion pictures. ... The Laramie Project is a 2002 drama film written and directed by Moisés Kaufman. ...

Combating homophobia

The play has now begun to be used to teach about prejudice and tolerance in PSHE and Citizenship in schools and has also been used in the UK as a GCSE text for English literature. Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE) is an element of the state school curriculum in England. ... “GCSE” redirects here. ...

The play also inspired grassroots efforts to combat homophobia. One person was inspired to donate more than 500 books and other media to the University of Wyoming's Rainbow Resource Center [3]. Today, that campus office houses the largest LGBT library in the state of Wyoming. The University of Wyoming is a land-grant university located in Laramie, Wyoming, situated on Wyomings high Laramie Plains, at an elevation of 7,200 feet (2194 m), between the the Laramie and Snowy Range mountains. ... The initialism LGBT also GLBT is in use (since the 1990s) to refer collectively to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender people. ...

External links

• The Tectonic Theater Project's website
• Dramatists Play Service, Inc.