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Issue
Date: 9/27/2007, Posted
On: 9/27/2007
Anti-gay activist's daughter
allegedly in Laramie Project cast
Ethan
Jacobs
ejacobs@baywindows.com
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There’s a new twist in the controversy around
the Acton-Boxborough Regional High School
production of Moisés Kaufman’s The Laramie
Project, a play about the aftermath of the
murder of Matthew Shepard. One of the cast members
of the production, which is set to open Nov. 3,
may be the daughter of anti-gay activist Amy
Contrada. The student production drew the ire of
Contrada’s anti-gay group MassResistance, which is
organizing an Oct. 3 forum to protest the play and
to warn parents of its supposed dangers (see “MassResistance protests Laramie
Project,” Sept. 20). The initial Bay Windows
story on the play noted that Contrada, one of the
lead MassResistance activists and author of the
MassResistance blog, lives in Acton.
On
Sept. 26 the blog QueerToday.com broke the story
that one of the cast members of The Laramie
Project is Claudia Contrada, who QueerToday
alleges is Contrada’s daughter. According to the
website for the Acton-Boxborough Regional High School
drama club, the younger Contrada will play
three roles in the production, Tiffany Edwards,
Newsperson 4 and Narrator 1B. Each member of the
cast plays several roles in the
production.
Bay Windows
contacted MassResistance to verify that Claudia
Contrada is Contrada’s daughter, but no one from
the organization responded by
deadline.
QueerToday reports that its
contributors first learned about Claudia
Contrada’s role in the play after people claiming
to be friends of hers posted messages about her
role in the play on the QueerToday blog. One of
the alleged friends wrote, "When you meet her [the
daughter of Amy Contrada’, it's hard to believe
that her mom is like that — she's such her
opposite."
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