I have just received some exciting news that I wanted to share with you. If you haven't yet had the opportunity to view this website, please check out http://drivingequality.com/.

This summer, Chris Mason will be embarqing on a 100 day, 16,000 mile road trip with one goal in mind: advancing LGBT equality. During his travels, he will be interviewing LGBT community organizers, activists and citizens in order to "gain an understanding of the current political climates" and to "explore ways of combating discrimination." "The project will culminate with a documentary of [his] experience with the aim of activating a discussion about potential strategies for ensuring equality."

Chris will also be taking steps to reduce the carbon footprint of this trip through various means, which could give us an added opportunity for organizing and/or participating in some sort of community service project to help him to achieve this as well as to help us to promote both the tour and our locally supportive LGBT community organizations.

According to Chris, he will (as of today) be in Johnson City, Tennessee for a stop on his Driving Equality tour on Tuesday May 19th. If you are interested in participating in this important and exciting project, please contact me ASAP at lgbties@gmail.com so that we can establish a committee of local activists and supporters to help plan this event and raise awareness about it.

If possible I would like to be able to schedule a formal planning/brainstorming session for sometime within the next two weeks, most likely an evening or weekend where several of us are available to do this.

Thank you for considering this opportunity to help to advance the cause of LGBT equality here in the Tri-Cities.

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