Center for Gender Equity
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Mission of the CGE
The mission of the Center for Gender Equity of Pacific University is to support gender equity through dialogue, programming, service, research, education, and advocacy in order to facilitate collaborative, humane, and sustainable University, local and global communities.
THE LARAMIE PROJECT
The Center for Gender Equity presents The Laramie Project. This powerful play is about the reaction to the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming, widely considered to be a hate crime motivated by homophobia. Moisés Kaufman and members of New York's Tectonic Theater Project went to Laramie after the murder of Matthew Shepard and wrote a play based on more than 200 interviews they conducted there. It follows, and in some cases re-enacts, the chronology of Shepard's visit to a local bar, his kidnapping and beating, the discovery of Matthew tied to a fence, the vigil at the hospital, his death and funeral, and the trial of his killers. Learn More