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The sexual misconduct allegations rocking
L.A.'s largest LGBTQ theater company

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Posted By: konocti95, 5/29/2021 2:37:39 PM

As the longtime artistic director of Celebration Theatre, the city’s leading LGBTQ stage, Michael A. Shepperd has been an outspoken advocate for social justice. As a gay Black theater-maker, Shepperd has pushed for inclusion and diversity in the arts. (Snip) But in interviews with The Times, nine people who worked with Shepperd, 58, painted a different portrait of the artistic director, and two men accused Shepperd of sexual misconduct in incidents spanning 13 years.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: konocti95 5/29/2021 2:40:31 PM (No. 800192)
Is Mr. Shepperd ready for his close-up? Nah, business a usual in Hollywood. Water is wet.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Jesuslover54 5/29/2021 2:40:48 PM (No. 800193)
Hard to tap dance with feet of clay.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: seamusm 5/29/2021 2:44:27 PM (No. 800198)
One-off, minor, and eminently forgetable roles on multiple TV series is hardly a successful career.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Dignitary Protection 5/29/2021 2:45:05 PM (No. 800199)
Gee, I'm shocked!
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Reply 5 - Posted by: DVC 5/29/2021 2:58:48 PM (No. 800214)
Perverts will be perverts. Expecting otherwise is extremely stupid.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: RedWhite&Blue2 5/29/2021 3:11:07 PM (No. 800225)
Many of us already believe that Igbtq IS “Sexual misconduct”... I know I do...
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Reply 7 - Posted by: JHHolliday 5/29/2021 3:26:31 PM (No. 800233)
I realize that everyone has sexual feelings whether heterosexual or homosexual but the LGBTQ adherents seem obsessed with sex. It seems to run rampant through that community. I have no idea why this should be but it seems to be a common theme. I realize both sides are guilty to a certain extent a la Harvey Weinstein but the 24/7 relentless pursuit of sex seems to fall mostly on the gay side.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: JrSample 5/29/2021 3:58:57 PM (No. 800244)
During this pandemic, the medical establishment had no problem telling everyone they could not go to work, school, church, etc. and to stay home in order to stop the spread of the disease. Yet, during the AIDS ''crisis'' nobody in the medical establishment told homosexuals that they should refrain from promiscuous gay sexual activity with multiple strangers to prevent the spread of the disease. Evidently, homosexuals are so obsessed with this activity that health authorities did not expect them to exercise common impulse control even to prevent spreading a deadly disease.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Ribicon 5/29/2021 4:03:03 PM (No. 800246)
FTA: "In an interview with The Times, Shepperd called Celebration a 'queer safe space' where flirtation and bawdy innuendo were common, and he said any behavior of a sexual nature between him and other Celebration cast or crew was consensual." Studies say 43% of gay men have had more than 500 partners, about 25% have had more than 1000, and 79% say over half of their partners are strangers. Homosexuals in "steady relationships" in the Netherlands have 7 to 8 affairs per year, and the average gray man has several dozen sex partners per year. This is part of their culture, and under Marxist norms, this is not to be criticized but rather is cause for celebration.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: volksford 5/29/2021 4:54:09 PM (No. 800281)
Sexual misconduct ...now there is a real knee slapper !
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Reply 11 - Posted by: JimBob 5/29/2021 5:08:03 PM (No. 800296)
Sex perverts are sex perverts. it's what they DO. Next headline: Study Finds That (as Konociti95 says) "Water is Wet!"
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Reply 12 - Posted by: bad-hair 5/29/2021 5:13:59 PM (No. 800303)
Gonna have to add a few letters. LGBTQS(sexual0M(misconduct) Pick your new colors for the flag too.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: moebellini3 5/29/2021 6:07:16 PM (No. 800347)
Anybody surprised, this is what they do. Got it..
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Reply 14 - Posted by: PChristopher 5/30/2021 12:21:40 AM (No. 800545)
Sexual misconduct at an LBEtc theater company....? You're kidding me, right?
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Reply 15 - Posted by: bighambone 5/30/2021 6:34:44 PM (No. 801144)
If all those people disappeared tomorrow the country would get along fine!
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