Singer Michelle Shocked stages sit-in at cancelled show in US after making anti-gay slur

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Alternative folk singer Michelle Shocked sits outside Moe’s Alley nightclub in Santa Cruz Calif., and strums her guitar on Thursday, March 28, 2013. After her show was canceled when she made an anti-gay slur earlier this month. Shocked had her face covered and her mouth taped shut. She dressed in a white disposable safety suit and invited people to write on it. (AP Photo

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. – Alternative folk and rock singer Michelle Shocked is staging a sit-in outside one of several nightclubs that cancelled her show after she made an anti-gay slur.

Shocked’s show scheduled for Thursday evening in Santa Cruz had been cancelled, along with several others, after the singer’s slur at a San Francisco concert more than a week ago.

She appeared outside Moe’s Alley wearing tape across her mouth that read “Silenced By Fear.”

When asked a question, Shocked shook her head vigorously and pointed to a sign inviting people to pick up a Sharpie marker and write on the white disposable safety suit she was wearing.

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