Yesterday, more than a thousand Richmonders took to Monument Avenue as part of the nationwide Good Trouble Lives On demonstration, organized by 50501 Virginia and local partners. The peaceful action stretched from Lombardy Street to Willow Lawn Drive,...
Side By Side's Springtime In The Summer fundraiser, originally scheduled to take place in May, will now take place August 1, with a combination of online events and socially distanced catering. You can't keep a good support group down, and Side By Side is proving that by finding ingenious ways to hold their annual springtime fundraiser regardless...
In a rather over-the-top display of transphobia, the Trump administration has released a memo telling homeless shelters how to spot transgender women in order to more easily discriminate against them. Nearly four years into his presidency, Donald Trump's administration continues to come up with new ways to harm transgender Americans by rolling...
The Defense Department wanted to ban Confederate flags from being flown at military bases without being specific about it, so they banned almost all non-US flags -- including the rainbow flag. While attempting to make all branches of the U.S. military consistent in their banning of Confederate flags, Defense Secretary Mark Esper has banned all...
Trump's press secretary attempted to deflect a question about the ongoing ban on transgender troops by attempting to inflate the president's extremely thin record on LGBTQ issues. The move didn't fool anyone. White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany is under fire for claiming President Donald Trump has a “great record” on LGBTQ issues. Trump,...
A decade after producers and directors of the Scooby-Doo franchise tried to make our brainy, bespectacled favorite's sexual orientation clear, producer Tony Cervone has officially confirmed it: Velma is gay. Like many of us, I grew up being a big fan of the Scooby-Doo cartoons. And while I don't know about anyone else, the character that always...
The Harry Potter author has been on the TERF train for a while now, but these days it's feeling more and more like she's driving it herself. Through a series of 11 tweets, critics now say Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling is comparing “transgender hormone therapy to gay conversion therapy.” “I’ve ignored fake tweets attributed to me and RTed...
US-funded nonprofit The Open Technology Fund is being pressured by Trump appointee Michael Pack to fund repressive surveillance tech that will put human rights activists around the world in danger. The Open Technology Fund (OTF), “a U.S. government-funded nonprofit that provides encryption technologies to journalists and activists living under...
Virginia nonprofits Side By Side and Virginia Home for Boys and Girls team up to tackle LGBTQ youth homelessness with Pride Place. Virginia nonprofit organizations Side By Side and the Virginia Home for Boys and Girls have teamed up to create new housing spaces for LGBTQ youth facing homelessness. These new spaces are called Pride Place; they are...
Due to concerns over COVID-19, VA Pride has announced that the 2020 edition of their annual PrideFest, originally scheduled for September 26, will not occur. Considering everything that's been going on over the past several months with the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, it's doubtful that it came as a surprise to very many people on Tuesday, when...
