Equality U

While Jake was a student at Northwestern University, he met a young man from Wheaton, a Christian college near Chicago, and was taken aback by what this young man had to say. If people at Wheaton discovered he was gay, he would be expelled from school. Jake was shocked to learn that not only is it...

Haven's own spirituality differs from many riders in that she believes in a mix of Christianity and Buddhism. Her experience of growing up in a progressive family outside Dallas, Texas gives her a unique perspective on the challenges the riders will face. An artist by training rather than an...

Life as a graduate theology student at liberal, San Francisco-area Pacific School of Religion is a far cry from Kayla's conservative Christian family in Oklahoma. Knowledgeable about all facets of Bible scholarship, Kayla is a devout Christian...an identity which she struggled to hold on to while...

Growing up in Russia where speech was neither free nor really speech, Alexey learned the value of meaningful dialogue around important issues. As he embarks on the Equality Ride, he is enthusiastic and believes he's ready for anything, but soon learns the road to equality can be an exhausting one....

A devout Pentecostal, David was expelled during his final semester at North Central University for refusing to seek counseling intended to change his sexual orientation. Before he left the campus, students laid their hands on him to cast out the demon of homosexuality. When the Equality Ride...

From rural Shawnee, Oklahoma, Pam was a victim of a brutal gay-bashing. Pam knows that the one-day presence of open and affirming LGBT Equality Riders on these campuses will not immediately change their policies. But she is driven by a sense of moral responsibility to make a stand, share her...

Katie grew up with a distrust for Christians that only intensified as she grew older and came out. She questions whether Christians really want to embrace LGBT people or continue kicking them out of their homes and churches. Along the way, will this line of questioning push her farther away from...

Raised by his strict Mexican, Jehovah's Witness grandparents after the death of his mother, Jarrett was kicked out of this home at 14 when his grandfather discovered he wasgay.
Jarrett is Mexican, Cuban and Moroccan, speaks three languages fluently, and is only 32 credits away from his...