As Shockoe Bottom has continued to be ground zero for unmanaged nightlife, armed youth, and disappearing oversight business owners and community leaders warn that Richmond’s failure to act isn’t just bad policy, it’s a dangerous gamble with the city’s future....
You can own a piece of art from Landon Elliott’s music video. The cover of Kacey Musgraves’ "Rainbow" creates a fundraiser for Side By Side, allowing listeners to donate $5 and receive a piece of rainbow art featured in the video. Another fine Richmond artist has put out a charity project in the midst of the chaos that is 2020. This time,...
The LGBTQ Victory Fund is backing Alexsis Rodgers in the 2020 Richmond mayoral race. If elected, Rodgers will become both the first woman and the first openly LGBTQ person to serve as Richmond's mayor. Richmond's four-way race to determine who will become the city's next mayor has been heating up ever since the summer began. Now, in a new...
First Billy, then Franklin, now Cissie. At the Republican National Convention, a third generation of the evangelical Graham family publicly condemned the LGBTQ community. Is this who we want to have the ear of our elected officials? “Cissie” Graham Lynch is following in the footsteps of her father, far right wing evangelical Franklin Graham,...
Join VA Pride and the Flying Squirrels for PRIDE Movie Night at the Diamond on Tuesday, September 1, featuring LGBTQ classic The Birdcage! You know you want to. We're all going a little nuts from being shut up inside all the time. And we're all at least a little sad that VA PrideFest, which would have been taking place in just a few short weeks,...
With the So.Queer Playwright Festival, Richmond Triangle Players want to elevate the voices of Southern LGBTQ writers through extensive workshopping and development to make their plays the best they can be. Are you queer? Are you a writer from the South? Then enter the So.Queer Playwright Festival! This year, Richmond Triangle Players will be...
A revision of USAID's Gender Identity and Women's Empowerment Policy finds all mention of LGBTQ issues stricken from the document, despite its previous version, from 2012, highlighting LGBTQ people as targets for discrimination. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) — an independent agency that administers $27 billion in...
Bob Good, who successfully wrested the Republican nomination for Virginia's Fifth Congressional District seat away from incumbent Denver Riggleman, is using fears of "a man dressed as a woman" in his campaign literature. We haven't checked in on the Republican Party of Virginia's 5th Congressional District since last year, when the coalition that...
The fact that it took a (barely) racy photo to inspire Liberty University to take action against the school's president, Jerry Falwell Jr, proves that Liberty cares more about appearances than doing the right thing, argues former LU student Lucas Wilson. Recently, Jerry Falwell Jr. “mutually agreed” with the Liberty University Board of Trustees...
Trump's conservative judicial appointees continue to spread the idea that things like wedding cakes constitute "art" and are therefore exempt from anti-discrimination laws. Go figure. Trump-appointed U.S. District Judge Justin Reed Walker ruled on Friday that it’s perfectly constitutional for a Christian photographer in Louisville,...
