Every year around this time, Richmond slips a little. It starts small and you catch it out of the corner of your eye. Someone in armor pumping gas. A Jedi standing at the crosswalk on Broad, waiting for the light like everyone else. A guy in full wizard robes standing...
With this week's White House Proclamation of LGBTQ Pride Month, President Joe Biden ends a four-year period in which the highest office of the land ignored Pride Month under Donald Trump -- while damaging the LGBTQ community in a number of other ways. President Joe Biden Tuesday morning issued an official White House LGBTQ Pride proclamation, the...
Anti-LGBTQ activists in Texas are attempting to find a way around last year's Supreme Court decision forbidding employment discrimination against LGBTQ workers by making their discrimination equal across genders. And the court just might go for it. June 15 will be the one-year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision...
Under Trump, the US State Department prohibited children born outside the United States from gaining US citizenship unless they were biologically related to both parents, a policy that targeted LGBTQ families almost exclusively. Last week, Biden's State Dept. ended that policy. The U.S. State Dept. under Secretary of State Antony...
In this month's Amazon Trail, Lee Lynch talks about the end of quarantine, the fear of being around people again, and supporting local businesses in their time of need. It’s finally here. The end of total lockdown. Am I ready? Absolutely not. I like my burrow. I don’t wanna play with others. We’ve fashioned a comfortable little routine. Week...
Diversity Richmond and VA Pride are now one organization, and they are currently hard at work to bring us the first Pridefest of the post-pandemic era this fall. Decades ago, it was hard to imagine that Virginia’s annual Pridefest would swell from 75 to over 40,000 attendees. The commonwealth has in recent years moved to better protect...
In this month's Amazon Trail, Lee Lynch takes us through the 15-year process of creating her new novel, encompassing everything from a cross-country love affair to a multigenerational LGBTQ chosen family. I’m not giving away any secrets here. Not saying it’s simple or that anyone can do it if they send $25.00 to Post Office Box 1,2,3. Nope, it’s...
Proposed by Republican Ralph Hise and currently on its way through the North Carolina General Assembly, the so-called "Youth Health Protection Act" would forbid all trans-related health care for those under 21 within North Carolina. A North Carolina bill attacking the state’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and especially transgender and queer or...
This year's General Assembly session, the second in which Virginia's legislative body has been under Democratic control, saw further improvements over last year's already outstanding push for LGBTQ equality. The Democratic-controlled Virginia General Assembly worked in its second year to establish more protections for LGBTQ people. ...
More states are getting on the "religious freedom as excuse for anti-LGBTQ discrimination" train, driven by their Republican state legislatures and governors. The latest to jump on board is Montana. Lawmakers in the Montana House and Senate have passed a “Religious Freedom Restoration Act” bill that will allow any person or business to...
