Richmond has always produced world-class talent and just as often, watched it leave. That cycle was exactly what Warren Jones, performer and co-founder of Prison Religion, and Christian Detres, filmmaker and longtime RVA Magazine contributor, set out to change. Their...
Virginia's Fifth District US Congressman is at it again. This month, he told a gathering of public high school students that they should defy their school's mask mandate, and said on the floor of Congress that marriage equality was responsible for everything wrong with America today. Charming, right? Virginia GOP U.S. Rep. Bob Good is attacking...
President Biden saluted the LGBTQ community for National Coming Out Day today, and promised he'd have our back as state legislatures around the country continue to push for anti-LGBTQ laws. After four years of silence from the White House, it was a refreshing change. President Joe Biden on Monday issued a statement honoring National Coming Out...
Paxton claims (falsely) that the policies "put women and children at risk," relying on the tired anti-LGBTQ accusations that queer and trans people are sexual predators. The result of the lawsuit could have nationwide implications for LGBTQ employment rights. Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton, running for re-election, on Monday sued...
With the Virginia Supreme Court's decision to uphold the reinstatement of Tanner Cross, a Loudoun County teacher who insisted on his right to misgender transgender students regardless of school policy, concerns over the enforceability of Virginia's new laws protecting transgender children are uncomfortably thrust into the spotlight. It's a rough...
This morning brings a sad but necessary announcement; VA Pridefest, originally scheduled for Saturday, September 25 at Brown's Island, will be postponed until 2022. The decision was not made lightly, but with COVID numbers once again on the rise due to the Delta variant, the organizers felt that it was the right thing to do. COVID strikes again....
Attempts to expand LGBTQ rights in Michigan have run up against some well-funded opposition from higher-ups in the Catholic Church. But LGBTQ advocates in the state are not giving up. Catholic Bishops in Michigan have spent over $238,000 – nearly a quarter of a million dollars – to fight a civil rights group’s goal of expanding protections for...
After over a year of limited operations, Richmond's LGBTQ bars -- and its LGBTQ community -- finally got a taste of post-pandemic life, just in time for Pride month. On the first Thursday night after Governor Northam lifted mask and capacity restrictions statewide, the crowd that gathered at Babe’s of Carytown, for a drag show featuring Godfrey’s...
A kerfuffle in Loudoun County over critical race theory and the rights of transgender students to go by their chosen names and pronouns has attracted the attention of right-wing evangelical activist Franklin Graham. Which is the last thing Virginia needs. Evangelical and anti-LGBTQ activist Franklin Graham is urging Americans to “pray...
Las Vegas Raiders defensive lineman Carl Nassib announced in an Instagram video that he is gay, making him the first active NFL player to come out as gay. Additionally, he announced a six-figure donation to the Trevor Project. America, meet your first openly gay active NFL player. Las Vegas Raiders defensive lineman Carl Nassib, 28, in an...
