“To be ridiculed like that was something that really made me realize that some people at Ole Miss and in Mississippi still can’t accept me for who I am.”
At a performance of The Laramie Project at The University of Mississippi, actors on stage were heckled by members of the audience.
According to the students who were in the play, derogatory slurs were shouted at the actors during the play, making it difficult for them to complete their performances.
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The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman and the Tectonic Theater examines the aftermath of the murder of Matthew Shepard, a young gay man, and its impact on the community of Laramie, Wyoming.
Among those audience members that were heckling the actors were 20 members of the Ole Miss football team.
The director, Rory Ledbetter, said, “The football players were certainly not the only audience members that were being offensive last night. But they were definitely the ones who seemed to initiate others in the audience to say things, too."
I am the only gay person on the cast. I played a gay character in the show, and to be ridiculed like that was something that really made me realize that some people at Ole Miss and in Mississippi still can't accept me for who I am.
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