Tully Satre
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Tully Satre (born Tully Meehan Satre on May 17, 1989 in Dover, DE) is an American gay rights activist in the Commonwealth of Virginia. In June 2005, Tully Satre founded Equality Fauquier-Culpeper in the rural suburbs of Virginia. Equality Fauquier-Culpeper hit national press that summer in The Washington Post, The Washington Blade, and other news outlets such as The Advocate. That was then, this is now: Tully Satre has become one of the nation's leading youth activists for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights.
Almost overnight, Tully Satre became a nationally recognized gay rights advocate when he began his online blog which can be found online at http://tullysatre.livejournal.com. Initially, the blog appeared on John Aravosis' heavy-traffic liberal AMERICAblog (http://americablog.org) and later made headlines on AMERICAblog, Andrew Sullivan's blog, the New York Times, The Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, the Culpeper Star-Exponent, The Advocate, and other news outlets when he confronted U.S. Senator George Allen (R-VA) in Culpeper during a town hall meeting.
Within a year of Equality Fauquier-Culpeper's inception, Tully has traveled around America sharing his story from rural Virginia. He has appeared on shows such as Gay USA with Andy Humm, OutQ on Sirius Satellite Radio with Michelangelo Signorile, and was the first student to appear on Richmond's Education Radio.
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Tully currently serves as the hired Executive Director of Equality Fauquier-Culpeper, headquartered in Warrenton, Virginia. In January 2006, Tully founded Commonwealth Education Equality Virginia (CEEVA), Virginia’s statewide organization advocating for GLBT/Q youth, and is current president of the board. He also directs The Voice Project, an internet outreach program for GLBT/Q youth which also promotes civic participation among teens for equality. (TVP formed as an online network project known as Equality Myspace.) Tully is the official blog writer for The Advocate, and also maintains a personal blog on activism which can be found online at http://tullysatre.livejournal.com. During the Summer of 2006, Satre attended the NYU Tisch School of the Arts CAP 21 Studio for Musical Theatre.
Satre was nominated to serve on the Board of Directors for Equality Virginia, to become the first teenager to serve on a statewide gay rights organization in the United States but could not accept the position because he was under the age of 18.
