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Greetings from your (favorite) Peer Educator!
I wanted to share about an upcoming adventure I will be taking in a few weeks. I have joined up with Soulforce for the 2010 Equality Ride (www.soulforce.org/equalityride), where I will join with 24 other LGBT activists to create dialogue with religious college and universities throughout the country. We travel to schools that specifically have policies against homosexuality and try to engage students and administrators in conversation about what the Bible does and does not say about homosexuality.
I will be blogging here throughout my journey so you can see what I have been up to and what I am planning on doing for the next two months. Right now I'm calling on all of you to help me out with the ride. There are two key things that you can do:
1. Visit my rider page to support me! www.soulforce.org/lindsay_vanclief
2. If you know anyone at any of the schools we are visiting or people who live in the area and want to help out LET ME KNOW! This ride is a joint effort of supporters, riders, students and community members. The more support we have the more sucsess we can have with the schools.
March 5th Valley Forge Christian College Phoenixville, PA
March 9th Houghton College Houghton, NY
March 11th Knoxville, TN for affirming community visit
March 15th Oakwood University Huntsville, AL
March 17th Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary Wake Forest, NC
March 18th Campbell University Lillington, NC
March 22nd Bethune Cookman University Daytona Beach, FL
March 25th Morehouse College Atlanta, GA
March 29th Belhaven University Jackson, MS
March 31st Mississippi College Clinton, MS
April 6th Baylor University Waco, TX
April 8th Hardin Simmons University Abilene, TX
April 9th Abilene Christian University Abilene, TX
April 14th Southwest Baptist University Bolivar, MO
April 16th Bethel College Mishawaka, IN
April 21st Union College Lincoln, NE
April 23rd Malone University Canton, OH
In the past, the Equality Ride has changed college policies, started Queer Straight Alliances, connected LGBT students with affirming communities and shown people that you can be religious and queer they do not have to be separate things. Nor do they need to conflict in anyones life.
Thanks for being awesome and feel free to email me with any thoughts/questions/concerns or supportive information you may have!
