LGBTQ+ Runner Mikah Meyer Reflects on His Run Across Mississippi
On February 1, Meyer began his month-long journey, traveling across the northern section of Mississippi with a photographer, a documentary maker, and one other crew member on an e-bike and the rest in a chase car. He started on the Alabama-Mississippi border at Interstate 22, and ran west toward Hughes, Arkansas, averaging about 10K a day over roughly 170 miles. The low daily mileage was purposeful; his goal was not only to run to raise money, but also to have conversations along the way with people who did and did not identify as LGBTQ+. And those conversations, good and bad, began from the...