Fifty million shows this week. I usually try to keep it to three or four, but there’s just too much unmissable stuff on the docket, I had to throw it all in. Got a show coming up? New single? Simply want someone to talk music? I am your guy at griffin@rvamag.com....
Why not make use of this time in quarantine? That’s the question Side by Side, a LGBTQ youth non-profit, is posing to their community. The organization is challenging Richmond to engage in self-improvement, and to raise $30,000 in the process. The challenge began Oct. 11, on National Coming Out Day, and will continue until Friday, Nov. 13....
Trump's least famous offspring mangled the acronym and otherwise mismanaged a too-little-too-late Trump campaign event seeking LGBTQ support. The internet was not amused. Tiffany Trump, the First Family’s youngest daughter, is being highly criticized after headlining a disastrous and offensive “LGBTQ pride” campaign event for her father, in which...
For theatre major TJ Cropper, creating a modern adaptation of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night that confronted issues of gender and sexuality head-on was a big challenge. Then COVID-19 happened. I studied a lot of theatre in my four years as a Performing Arts major -- a lot of theatre that did not necessarily reflect my experiences, or who I am as a...
In this month's Amazon Trail, Lee Lynch works to get her house ready for the arrival of a new dog, even as the world outside her backyard remains terrifying. I can’t save our democracy, but I can do a little good in the world. We are adopting a dog who needs a home. It’s been five years, seven months since our dog Bea died and we’re finally...
We sat down with City Council candidates Tavarris Spinks and Joseph S.H. Rogers to talk about their ties to Richmond, plans for their respective districts, and how they want to switch up Richmond’s representative voice. Tavarris Spinks, 2nd District Tavarris Spinks, a noted participant and activist in Richmond politics, is a...
The opinion, co-authored by fellow Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, made the argument that marriage equality should never have been allowed, because of (you guessed it) "religious freedom." Former Rowan County, Kentucky clerk Kim Davis won’t get a hearing from the U.S. Supreme Court. A case against her, brought by several same-sex couples she...
The result of the interview left thousands of confused viewers wondering if one of Donald Trump's sons had just come out on national television. [Spoiler: he hadn't. But it was touch and go for a while.] In an awkward “Fox & Friends” interview, Eric Trump claimed the LGBTQ community “loves” his father, but his clumsy claim left some thinking...
Gade, the Republican candidate competing against incumbent Democrat Mark Warner to represent Virginia in the United States Senate, has a history of anti-LGBTQ views that should give LGBTQ Virginians pause. A candidate with a history of anti-LGBTQ comments and a platform that supports discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender...
Trump's latest nominee for the Supreme Court is an anti-LGBTQ, anti-choice religious conservative whose appointment to the court may put marriage equality at risk of being struck down. President Donald Trump has reportedly chosen a far right wing religious extremist, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, to be his third Supreme Court pick, according...
