Richmond will come alive with color, music, and community as Virginia Pride Fest 2025 takes over Midtown Green 2401 West Leigh Street on Saturday, September 27, from noon to 8 p.m. The day caps off more than a week of events organized by VA Pride to celebrate...
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...
In his new solo show at Reynolds Gallery, sculptor Raul De Lara takes a playful approach to images of his homeland in Mexico -- a place that, as a DACA recipient, he cannot return to. “I came to the desert to play with my homeland. No longer do I remember how she looks, feels, sounds, smells, or tastes. I came here because I miss her, and because...
For LGBTQ and BIPOC folks seeking recovery from addiction in the Richmond area, there have traditionally not been many good options. Peter's Place hopes to change that, centering the experiences of BIPOC and LGBTQ people. When Shauntelle Hammonds was looking for place in the Richmond area to begin her long-term recovery from substance dependency,...
Betsy DeVos's reasoning is based on prejudicial misunderstandings and bears a strong resemblance to a current lawsuit against Connecticut schools by the anti-LGBTQ group Alliance Defending Freedom. The U.S. Department of Education (DOE), led by Betsy DeVos (pictured above), is threatening to withhold $18 million in federal funds from...
Lee Lynch returns from a long rest with a new edition of The Amazon Trail about work, aging, and finding ways to survive the hard times we're all faced with. I have been resting. A strange activity for me, but I had no choice. I was so worn out, I remember promising myself that I would never hurry again as long as I lived. The first two of six...
As the coronavirus pandemic reaches its sixth month in the United States, local boutiques and thrift store owners have been reevaluating their long-term business model, with some moving their operations online. When Bill Harrison first heard news of COVID-19 cases popping up in Virginia back in March, he made the tough decision to close Diversity...
The protester, a supporter of the right-wing conspiracy theory known as QAnon, put forth the same unfounded anti-LGBTQ arguments that led another QAnon believer to shoot up a gay-owned pizza place in DC. At a recent gathering of Trump supporters in the Oregon capital of Salem, one man with a megaphone accused LGBTQ people of normalizing...
