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Katie Sowers Will Make History In The 2020 Super Bowl
The offensive assistant coach for the San Francisco 49ers will be the first woman to coach in a Super Bowl, and is also the NFL's only openly LGBTQ coach. Whether or not the San Francisco 49ers are able to defeat the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LIV on Sunday, February 2, they'll still be making history. San Francisco offensive assistant...
Queer Eye for the Non-Binary Guinea Pig
Queer Eye's Jonathan Van Ness has released a children's book about a non-binary guinea pig who is also a gymnastics prodigy. Can this story possibly be any more adorable? Jonathan Van Ness of Queer Eye and A Gay of Thrones fame continues his role in the world as a wholesome, encouraging presence who must be protected at all costs. Van Ness came...
Dirtwoman Hits The Festival Circuit
Before its upcoming run at Movieland Boulevard Square starting January 24, Jerry Williams, producer and director of Spider Mites Of Jesus: The Dirtwoman Documentary, took his film to seven different film festivals. Here's how it went. Here's a choice between two movies: One features three hot men with their shirts off and the other showcases a...
In Tennessee, A Fundamentalist Attorney Is Attempting To Undo Marriage Equality
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...
Popular Beauty YouTuber Nikkie Tutorials Comes Out As Transgender
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...
The Amazon Trail: Tabloid Edition
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...
Advocates Hope LGBTQ Protections Will Pass With New Leadership
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...
Does Ricky Gervais Hate Trans People Or Not?
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...
Jumping Off The Tightrope
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)...
