Members of Ole Miss football team use gay slurs toward theater performers

Many play attendees at the University of Mississippi, or Ole Miss, including approximately 20 members of the football team, reportedly used derogatory gay slurs during a school performance of The Laramie Project. The play is about the brutal murder of 20-year old gay student Matthew Sheppard in 1998. The students, all freshmen who were required by a theater course to view the play, are accused of using the word "fag" and mocking the body types of those on stage.