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Equality Ride Hits the Road This Weekend

Equality Ride Hits the Road This Weekend

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Soulforce, a group that fights religion-based bigotry against LGBT people, has announced the route and directors for this year's Equality Ride, which takes young activists to religiously affiliated colleges and universities around the nation.

Seventeen riders will board a bus in Philadelphia this weekend, bound for Atlanta, the first stop. From there they will go to Nashville, Chicago, Minneapolis, Oklahoma City, New Orleans, Dallas, Denver, and other cities before ending up in San Francisco April 30.

The ride's codirectors are Jason Conner, who participated in the 2010 ride and is now Soulforce's director of programs, and J Mason, who works in LGBT youth services in Philadelphia. Find out more about the ride here.

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Trudy Ring is The Advocate’s senior politics editor and copy chief. She has been a reporter and editor for daily newspapers and LGBTQ+ weeklies/monthlies, trade magazines, and reference books. She is a political junkie who thinks even the wonkiest details are fascinating, and she always loves to see political candidates who are groundbreaking in some way. She enjoys writing about other topics as well, including religion (she’s interested in what people believe and why), literature, theater, and film. Trudy is a proud “old movie weirdo” and loves the Hollywood films of the 1930s and ’40s above all others. Other interests include classic rock music (Bruce Springsteen rules!) and history. Oh, and she was a Jeopardy! contestant back in 1998 and won two games. Not up there with Amy Schneider, but Trudy still takes pride in this achievement.
Trudy Ring is The Advocate’s senior politics editor and copy chief. She has been a reporter and editor for daily newspapers and LGBTQ+ weeklies/monthlies, trade magazines, and reference books. She is a political junkie who thinks even the wonkiest details are fascinating, and she always loves to see political candidates who are groundbreaking in some way. She enjoys writing about other topics as well, including religion (she’s interested in what people believe and why), literature, theater, and film. Trudy is a proud “old movie weirdo” and loves the Hollywood films of the 1930s and ’40s above all others. Other interests include classic rock music (Bruce Springsteen rules!) and history. Oh, and she was a Jeopardy! contestant back in 1998 and won two games. Not up there with Amy Schneider, but Trudy still takes pride in this achievement.
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