This article is part of the official Virginia Pride Festival Guide, released ahead of the celebration on Saturday, September 27. Presented with the support of Out RVA, Allianz, Hit Play, Virginia Lottery, CarMax, Bank of America, CoStar Group, Genworth, CapTech,...
Dayum Jam owner Andy Waller was able to fund their own top surgery through jam sales. Now they're working with Side By Side to offer similar help to a local transgender youth with similar needs. Andy Waller’s gender-affirming top surgery was funded by a homegrown business selling lots and lots of jars of mango jam. Now, on the one-year...
As part of Richmond Public Schools’ effort to make schools a more inclusive space for the LGBTQ community, starting this fall, it will have an option for students to display their chosen name on virtual platforms. Richmond Public Schools has introduced the option for transgender and non-binary students to display their chosen name on online...
Despite the fact that the Trump administration has only tried to block citizenship for children of same-sex parents, Trump's press secretary claims the policy has nothing to do with anti-LGBTQ discrimination. White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany says the Trump administration’s attempts to ban U.S. citizenship from same-sex couples’...
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...
