At the intersection of pulpy horror and a coven-like sense of inclusive community is Good For Her: Richmond’s preeminent destination for femme monsters, wretched women, and nasty displays of the (not so) divine feminine. Good For Her is, among a myriad...
By sending letters demanding county clerks cease issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, Tennessee attorney David Fowler is setting the stage for a lawsuit challenging marriage equality in Tennessee and beyond. Last week, Tennessee attorney David Fowler sent a letter to all 95 of Tennessee's county clerks demanding that they cease and...
The 25-year-old YouTuber with over 12 million followers came out in a video posted on her YouTube channel after a blackmail attempt. Nikkie de Jager, the popular Dutch YouTuber known to her millions of followers as Nikkie Tutorials, revealed in a video posted on her YouTube channel Monday that she is a transgender woman. In the video, de Jager...
Bath Door Balks at Booting Hostage! Hostage Trapped for NINETY MINUTES! Suspect Subdued with Electrical Weapon A woman in a remote town in Oregon suffered a harrowing ninety minutes before her rescue by three brave public servants. The woman, who wishes to remain unnamed for “professional” reasons, reports pounding on the hollow core washroom...
The Virginia Values Act, introduced Friday in the General Assembly by Senator Adam Ebbin, would offer extensive (and much needed) non-discrimination protections to Virginia's LGBTQ citizens. Sen. Adam Ebbin, D-Alexandria, introduced Friday SB 868, called the “Virginia Values Act,” which would amend existing nondiscrimination laws to extend...
A recent dust-up over tweets the British comedian made about transgender people has mainly left us confused. Last month, Ricky Gervais tweeted about trans people a whole bunch, and by the end of it all, he'd contradicted himself multiple times, frustrating both the UK's ascendant TERF movement and LGBTQ people everywhere. Can we make heads or...
Artists Mahari Chabwera and Micah David Scott tackle the question of evolution through art with their new exhibition, Evolution Of The Sacred Self, which opens Friday at Iridian Gallery at Diversity Richmond. Diversity Richmond's Iridian Gallery premieres its first new exhibition of the year (and the decade, depending on how you count it)...
Youthful transgender advocate Gavin Grimm continues to make Virginia proud. Gavin Grimm is still only 20 years old, but he's spent nearly a quarter of his young life at the center of the ongoing struggle for transgender rights in America. As we all should know by now, it all started back when he was just another high school student, fighting for...
For the first time in over a generation, Democrats control both houses of the General Assembly, and advocates are working to ensure that this has positive results for Virginia's LGBTQ community. It hasn't been all that many years since the dawn of a new General Assembly session meant just as many proposed bills designed to diminish LGBTQ rights...
Disagreements between different factions within the United Methodist Church, mainly over whether the church should allow same-sex marriage and LGBTQ clergy, have led to a split. On Friday, January 3, leaders of the United Methodist Church formally announced plans for splitting the church. The reason? A fundamental divide between more liberal...
