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Ditto: I stopped keeping up with media’s obsessive coverage of 22-year-old Lindsay Lohan a few years ago, just before she entered rehab for the first time. Sarah Warn, 365gay.com

Hot play, hot boy: [Sean] Knapp likes roles “where I don’t do what I’m supposed to do” and he sure has one in “Speech & Debate” at Southern Rep. He plays Howie, a character who’s been “officially ‘out’” since he was 10 years old, danced like George Michael at a Boy Scout jamboree, wants to form a Gay/Straight Student Alliance at the high school where he’s “the new kid” and has inadvertently gotten involved in an Internet sex scandal involving the mayor and one of his teachers. Times-Picayune (photo courtesy John Barrois)

Update: For Mr. Kaufman and his colleagues, returning to Laramie, a town of 25,000 near the Colorado border, is far from a theatrical exercise. They plan to use the new interviews to write an epilogue to the play before the 10th anniversary of Mr. Shepard’s death, on Oct. 12; it will be added to the published version of the script and will be included in future performances of “The Laramie Project,” which has had about 2,000 productions since it opened off Broadway in 2000. New York Times

Bullshit: “I would encourage you to refuse to sign marriage licenses with ‘Party A’ and ‘Party B,’” Bird said in a letter to area churches. “If ever there was a time for the people of the United States to stand up and let their voices be heard – this is that time.”

Bird told The Bee that the decision not to register their marriage was “personal – not religious.” 365gay.com

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