YES! Weekly published an article on my journey with the Equality Ride and return to North Carolina today:

Equality rider returns to Greensboro
By Amy Kingsley, Staff writer, May 9, 2007

In an upstairs classroom at the Elon University Law School, an executive chair and cheery Mylar balloon welcomed Matt Hill Comer home.

Two months earlier, on March 1, Comer boarded one of two Soulforce buses alongside 25 other young people – all of them gay, lesbian, transgender or straight supporters – for a journey that would take them to more than a dozen Christian colleges. Comer and his fellow riders, all participants in the second annual Equality Ride, intended to open up a dialogue between fundamentalist college students and gays and lesbians at places where homosexuality is considered a sin.

Some schools allowed the group on campus and others barred the doors. In all, Comer and the other riders on the east coast bus (the other headed west) visited 19 colleges in two months and faced everything from vandalism to harassment and arrest. He returned to Greensboro on May 1, where, hours after his arrival, he participated in a panel discussion at the law school where supporters waited with homemade signs.

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