by Alexis Jackson I am a Black queer woman, a wife, a mother, a licensed therapist, and a doula in Virginia. And before anything else, let me be clear: my family is not outside of the norm. Love, intention, and care are not radical ideas. They are the foundation of...
Late last week, Arkansas's Governor signed into law the "Medical Ethics & Diversity Act," which -- in classic Republican doublespeak fashion -- actually legalizes discrimination against LGBTQ patients for reason of "conscience." Arkansas Republican Governor Asa Hutchinson Friday afternoon signed into law a bill designed to give medical...
Joe Biden has been president for two months, and Tony Perkins of the anti-LGBTQ hate group Family Research Council, is all in an uproar about it. Why? Because Biden has reversed some of Donald Trump's discriminatory anti-LGBTQ policies. Tony Perkins, president of the anti-LGBTQ hate group Family Research Council, had an open door to President...
No one's asking the Vatican to approve of same-sex marriages, but on Monday they released a statement approved by Pope Francis to let us all know that they do not. Declaring that the Vatican “cannot bless sin,” the Roman Catholic Church on Monday launched an unprovoked attack on the marriages of same-sex couples and on LGBTQ people in general,...
In this month's Amazon Trail, Lee Lynch celebrates the joy of collecting all kinds of random objects, regardless of whether anyone else sees them as "collector's items." I spend too much time and space collecting die-cast toy vehicles, especially Matchbox, a few Dinkys and other locally hard-to-find brands. I’m no expert, am not a vehicle...
During Vanita Gupta's confirmation hearing to become Biden's associate attorney general, Ted Cruz attempted to assert a misrepresentation of what the Equality Act does. Thankfully Democrat Dick Durbin wasn't willing to allow it. U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Tuesday apparently tried to make a soundbite speech for Fox News while falsely...
A bill that will outlaw the notorious "gay panic" and "trans panic" defenses is headed to Governor Northam's desk for his signature. Virginia lawmakers passed a bill that will ban the use of a person’s perceived or actual sexual orientation or gender identity as a defense in court for the assault or murder of an LGBTQ person. “It’s done:...
The bill, introduced by state Senators Mamie Locke and Jennifer McClellan, would halt a variety of ways that Virginia's legal system currently discriminates against people with HIV. The General Assembly advanced a bill this week that lawmakers say will modernize Virginia’s current HIV laws. The amended measure has passed both chambers, but...
In order to increase their impact in the Richmond Region and the Commonwealth, Diversity Richmond and VA Pride have joined forces and will officially merge on April 1. On Tuesday, they made it official. February 23 saw the announcement by Diversity Richmond and VA Pride, two of the leading LGBTQ organizations in the state, that they will...
Jennifer Carroll Foy is currently running for Governor in Virginia. If elected, not only will she be Virginia's first female governor, she'll institute a detailed plan to protect the rights and advance the interests of LGBTQ Virginians. More than a decade ago, 57 percent of Virginians approved a constitutional amendment that defined marriage as a...
