Archive for the ‘Soulforce/Equality Ride’ Category
This is the category archive of posts regarding the Soulforce Equality Ride. The archive contains posts following the Riders journey in 2006 and the 2007 journey in which InterstateQ.com Owner/Editor Matt Comer and Contributors Brandy Daniels and Cylest Brooks participated.
Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
Yesterday, I posted an email statement from Soulforce on the passing of Jerry Falwell.
Soulforce, the Lynchburg, VA-based organizations which fights for freedom for LGBT people from religious and political oppression, was founded by the Reverend Mel White, a former ghost-writer and employee for Falwell.
Lots of people have wondered what Mel ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Civil Rights, LGBT, Media, Politics, Religion, Sexuality, Soulforce/Equality Ride, United States | No Comments »
Tuesday, May 15th, 2007
Soulforce, the Lynchburg, VA-based organization which seeks freedom for LGBT people from political and religious oppression and founded by the Reverend Mel White, friend and former ghost-writer for the Reverend Jerry Falwell, has released a statement on Falwell's passing (not yet available online, sent via email):
Soulforce Observes the Passing of ...
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Friday, May 11th, 2007
My dear friend KipEsquire brings you the 'What is in the White Box?' Contest.
Kip attended the Soulforce Equality Ride's fundraiser in New York City, sponsored by various groups including GLEE.com (by the way, you should join Matt at GLEE.com).
If you guess, or come closest to guessing, what is in the ...
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Friday, May 11th, 2007
A wrap-up article on the Equality Ride from the Washington Blade says:
The second Equality Ride, which kicked off with one bus traveling east and the other traveling west on March 8, came to an end April 26. During that time, riders racked up approximately 90 arrests and thousands of dollars ...
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Thursday, May 10th, 2007
That's right. I feel honored.
Not only is InterstateQ.com featured in this month's OutInAsheville Spotlight, we are also featured right along side such well-known sites as my friends at Pam's House Blend and PageOneQ, as well as 365gay.com and Chris Crain.
Here's what writer Maxwell Powell says about us:
InterstateQ.com serves as both ...
Posted in Asheville, Blog, LGBT, LGBT Youth, Media, North Carolina, Soulforce/Equality Ride, Triad, United States, Western NC | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
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 ...
Posted in College/University, Greensboro, LGBT Youth, Media, North Carolina, Soulforce/Equality Ride, Triad, United States, Winston-Salem | 3 Comments »
Friday, May 4th, 2007
Coming THIS Summer (hopefully by the end of the month)...
A Road to Equality... My amateur documentary on the 2007 Soulforce Equality Ride.
- - TRAILER - -
I've been working quite a lot on this since getting back. I am so excited that I'll be able to share this with family and ...
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2007
It is one of the Ten Commandments. You can't miss it... after all, there's only ten of them in the list: Thou shalt not bear false witness against they neighbor.
In an article from the Washington Blade, a Brigham Young University administrator tells the world that the school never received a ...
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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
Jason Johnson, the former University of the Cumberlands student who was forced to leave school for noting his sexual orientation on the social networking site MySpace.com, speaks out today in a letter to the editor in the Lexington Herald-Leader concerning the Soulforce Equality Ride events at his former school in ...
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Tuesday, May 1st, 2007
Here is a story from the Daily Herald (Utah), featuring Equality Rider Matt Kulisch.
(Photo: ASHLEY FRANSCELL/Daily Herald Matt Kulisch prays with other members of Soulforce, an LGBT activism group, before stepping onto the BYU campus Thursday, March 22, 2007. Soulforce had a press conference stating their purpose for stopping at ...
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