May 24, 2011; Source: celebs.gather.com | The Westboro Baptist Church decided to heckle comedienne Lisa Lampanelli at her show in Topeka, Kansas on Saturday apparently because she has loads of gay fans and has been trading barbs with them on Twitter. (She says WBC stands for, “We be in da closet.”) Lampanelli, however, was unfazed by their protest, promising them that she would donate $1,000 to Gay Men’s Health Crisis for each WBC member present. Lucky GMHC will now be $50,000 richer courtesy of the WBC. Nice move – charity as payback.—Ruth McCambridge
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Ruth is Editor in Chief of the Nonprofit Quarterly. Her background includes forty-five years of experience in nonprofits, primarily in organizations that mix grassroots community work with policy change. Beginning in the mid-1980s, Ruth spent a decade at the Boston Foundation, developing and implementing capacity building programs and advocating for grantmaking attention to constituent involvement.
