I just received a phone call from a reporter friend who was looking for comment on a story she is writing. It seems that Rapid City Central High School has decided to do The Laramie Project in the Spring as one of their student productions.
Naturally, my comment was that I thought it was fantastic. And, I hoped that it could generate a discussion about diversity and equality here in the community. We can be sure that it will generate discussion. I just hope that it can be done intelligently and without all the hate mongering. But, given the state of affairs with the right wing fundamentalists these days I think we all know what is coming.
I just think that we need to be ready to respond intelligently and rationally. Let the fundies rant and roll and show the world the hateful mentality they advocate. I've contacted some friends of the Shepard family that live in Rapid City and they in turn have already called Judy. She has some great suggestions for the event which we will be discussing at a later time.
The timing is perfect as we have already booked Judy Shepard for the Pride Festival next summer. We are working with the staff at Mt. Rushmore at this time about permits and scheduling for our program there.
We are working to make Pride Fest 2008 a major national event. Schedule vacations now for the weekend of the 11th, 12th and 13th of July 2008. We are in negotiations with a national venue to hold it there. It looks good. LGBT former and current South Dakotans its time to come home for the party! If you look close, the Hills aren't black. They're lavender.
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