Description of Incident: Students from Sleepy Hollow High Schools Gay-Straight Alliance considered the plays message powerful and wanted to stage a production. But high schools are not independent theaters, and the students soon found themselves negotiating with the principal about the use of profanity in the play. The principle stated that it was the profanity, not the play's subject matter that clashed with the school's generally accepted standards.

Results of Incident: The students worked with a teacher to come up with an edited version of The Laramie Project. While they were in the midst of trying to find a school site for the production  the high school auditorium is under construction  a staff member at the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville heard about the students efforts. The center was presenting its Out at the Movies lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender film series, so it seemed fitting to offer the theater for a reading. The students presented their reading at the film center on May 23, in a production that was not formally affiliated with the school. Still, the audience was filled with Sleepy Hollow students and parents.