A group of Americans are promoting equality through sandwiches

Last year, friends Taryn Miller-Stevens and Peter Stolarski founded Get Out, a social enterprise that supports LGBT equality. This summer, they and their team are hitting the road for a project they’ve dubbed BLgTUSA: America’s First 50 State Food Tour for Equality, reported The Advocate.

For this food tour, they’ve reinvented a classic American sandwich, the BLT – for bacon, lettuce and tomato, in case you didn’t know – into a BLgT. What’s the ‘g’ for, you ask? It’s an ingredient to be added by their chef partners to the sandwiches, and could be anything from gouda to guacamole.

The project is pretty simple. Get Out is partnering with dining establishments and LGBT-oriented non-profits in all 50 states. At each pitstop, 150 BLgT sandwiches will be given away for free. Subsequently, every BLgT sold at partner restaurants will contribute towards a donation to the chosen local non-profit. The Get Out team will also hang around in their colourful van for conversations on gay issues.

“Everyone needs to eat. It’s really approachable, food is not political, food unites and it really feeds the soul,” Miller-Stevens told local TV station WRIC during their event in Richmond, Virginia.

Michelle Jones, owner of their local restaurant partner, Pasture, said, “I think it’s something you can’t argue with, and it’s so American, the idea of equality; and when you add BLTs which is such an American sandwich, it seems like a fun idea to me.”