Equality U

What Campus Is Really Like
This film offers a glimpse at reality of the treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students who attend religous schools. One guy even admits (thanks for capturing that on video, Dave & J.R.) that donations are more important than the lives & faiths of lgbt students as well as the souls of the administrators who torture them. Money is the obstacle but the effects shown in this film have opened eyes and compelled many in positions of power to acknowledge what they do. Whether or not they change will be up to viewers of this film and others like it who take it upon themselves to demand the torture stops. Buy the DVD. Eyethink Pictures, Dave O'Brien and J.R. Robeck do awesome and thoughtful work.

Equality U brings out every emotion.
I am the sister of one of the students who went on this long emotional trip. They all had to endure so much. Some good and some bad. I was thrilled when this finally came out to let others view it. I saw it on a cable channel, and watched it just about every time it came on. I may be bias due to the fact that my brother was a part of this, but who ever says it is not factual needs a wake up call. Unless you are in, or were in these wonderful young adults shoes, you cannot say that. This is a perfectly made documentary film, full of truth, that everyone needs to see. It is almost like a tool, to teach you and get you to understand what their lives are like on a daily basis having to struggle with their personal choices. These are smart god loving young people who are trying to help their fellow men who struggles along with them in schools that deny them their rights as human beings. Some have suffered terribly by the so called "school rules", some had taken their lives, and some,...

Timely, Thorough & Thoughtful
Dave O'Brien & Eyethink Pictures' "Equality U" is a timely, thorough and thoughtful look into the lives of 33 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender or Straight activists as they visit various US colleges and universities to confront anti-gay discrimination policies. The activists, part of the Soulforce Equality Ride, spent two months on the road, traveling by bus, to visit 19 schools--with the Eyethink Pictures documentary crew in tow. Specifically, the documentary focuses on the experiences of several of these young activists, called "Equality Riders," as well as a few students they met along the way. While no film has time to be perfect--and this documentary runs a fairly standard 90 minutes--Dave O'Brien brings the viewer into the middle of a super-charged issue: the place of LGBT individuals in conservative, privatized, exclusive (and usually faith-based) communities.

Yet while partaking in the larger cultural debate around LGBT identities, this film chooses a unique...

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