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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.

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[-] force@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I mean if you don't love your partner you shouldn't be in a relationship with your partner, unless that relationship brings other things that convince you to stay with them. If you're unhappy with your monogamous relationship and want to pursue a non-monogamous relationship, then that's your decision to leave your current relationship.

Nobody should have to stay with someone they don't love, and nobody should have to stay in a relationship they are unhappy with. And conversely, everyone should be able to be in a consensual relationship with someone they love, and everyone should be able to be in a consensual relationship that they're happy with. If your relationship makes you unhappy, you have no personal obligation to stay in it, and if your relationship makes you happy, you have no personal obligation to leave it.

Also you have no obligation to your parents or outsiders at all for that matter. They don't "deserve" to decide your entire life just because they fucked without protection one day. Don't let other people control your happiness, especially not cultist nutjobs.

If you want to marry for tax purposes only, there's nothing wrong with that. Marriage in the current sense is an entirely legal concept, and only exists for legal purposes.

Like I'm sorry if you regret your relationship choice and you're unhappy with it, that you're sexually unattracted to your wife and have such strong sexual and/or romantic urges for other people that you want to cheat on her / are so untrusting of your wife that you're paranoid that she wants to cheat on you, and you felt you've gone in too deep to pull out of it, but that's on you and entirely your problem. Don't get into a relationship if you know from the start that you're going to be unhappy with it, and don't stay in a relationship and waste everyone's time and emotional effort if it makes you miserable. It's pretty obvious but I guess some people have a hard time understanding it.

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