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Gays & buses.


1961 Protesting segregation, busloads of white and black civil-rights activists make Freedom Rides through the South, inspiring gay activists to launch the current Soulforce Equality Ride The Equality Ride is an annual civil-rights bus journey across the United States led by young adults. It primarily fosters dialogue -- or, failing that, confronts colleges and universities that discriminate against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students. .

1979 As many as 100,000 supporters descend on the nation's capital, many by bus, for the gay rights movement's first March on Washington.

1994 Australian drag queens This is a list of drag queens and female impersonators. Only those subjects who are notable enough for Wikipedia articles should be included here.

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 spice up the outback and movie houses courtesy of a redecorated motor coach dubbed Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.

1996 Isaiah Washington and HarPy Lennix play lovers on board a bus bound for the Million Man March in Spike Lee's Get on the Bus.

2000 After the Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority The Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority (PSTA) provides public transportation for Pinellas County, Florida. The authority manages a bus system that encompasses 39 local routes and two express routes, and the Suncoast Beach Trolley.  in Florida refuses to display bus shelter bus shelter bus nabribus m

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 ads for the "ex-gay" conference Love Won Out, organizers sue on First Amendment grounds.

2003 Krapf Bus Company settles a lawsuit over a 2002 incident in which a bus driver refused to carry a Philadelphia ACT UP contingent to Harrisburg Pa., because he "didn't want to catch anything."

2005 Resie O'Donnell stars as Beth, a feisty but developmentally challenged woman who spends her days riding city buses, in CBS's Riding the Bus With My Sister Riding the Bus with My Sister is a memoir by Rachel Simon, published in 2002 by Houghton Mifflin about the time she spent with her mentally challenged sister Beth, whose lifestyle centers around riding buses in her home city. .

2006 The Soulforce Equality Ride launches on March 9.
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Title Annotation:TIME LINE
Author:Avery, Dan
Publication:The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
Article Type:Brief article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:May 9, 2006
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