When you talk to the workers on strike outside the Starbucks in the Fan, you don’t hear anything abstract about “labor movements” or “corporate negotiations.” You hear frustration, exhaustion, and a pretty simple question: why won’t Starbucks come to the table? Last...
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...
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...
