What a difference a week makes! On Tuesday morning April 22, Youngkin aide Matthew Moran wrote on X, the everything app, about the Virginia Republican Party fielding the most diverse ticket in their history. Moran was referring to Winsome Sears, Jason...
The American Bar Association's report said that Lawrence J.C. VanDyke, a Trump nominee for federal court, is "arrogant, lazy," and potentially unfair to LGBTQ people. Lawrence J.C. VanDyke openly wept on Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee as he was confronted with a blistering review from the American Bar Association, which found...
Virginia Beach Human Rights Commission member Kenick El called homosexuality "an abomination to the Human Race" and referred to trans women as "men in dresses" in a Facebook post last week, which brought widespread condemnation. UPDATE, October 30: LaKendrick Coburn El, who also goes by Kenick El, announced Friday that he would resign from the...
Michael Che's Weekend Update joke at Caitlyn Jenner's expense deadnamed and misgendered the transgender celebrity; other than a social media backlash, he's experienced no consequences -- and is unlikely to. Five years after the so-called "transgender tipping point," we've still got a long way to go. That was proven in most dramatic fashion this...
Equality Virginia's sixth Transgender Information and Empowerment Summit put significant focus on the needs of transgender people of color, who are at significantly higher risk for violence and discrimination. Hundreds of transgender people and their allies recently gathered in Richmond for a trans conference focused on providing resources to the...
You might not expect to find a drag show at a bowling alley, but that's exactly what you'll find if you show up to River City Roll this Sunday night. Located in Scott’s Addition, River City Roll is a boutique bowling alley that offers skeeball, tabletop shuffleboard, and, of course, bowling. With menu items such as “roasted jerk pork belly,”...
This is who we're up against, folks. A Tennessee county commissioner during a public meeting on Monday used an anti-gay slur and racism to attack a Democratic presidential candidate, then insisted, as he put it, that he’s “not prejudice.” Commissioner Warren Hurst, while advocating for a proposal to make Sevier County a “gun sanctuary city”...
After a massive backlash, the anti-LGBTQ fast food restaurant's landlord in Reading, England decided not to renew Chick-Fil-A's lease. They'll be out of there in six months. Well… that didn't take long. Chick-Fil-A only opened its first store in the United Kingdom less than two weeks ago, and they have already announced its closing. And it's all...
Despite a history of homophobic jokes, director Tyler Perry is showing himself to be an LGBTQ ally with the plans for his new studio. Tyler Perry is having a pretty great week -- and he’s going out of his way to ensure that others are having one, too. Perry, who is famous for his Madea series of films, has had a pretty complicated history with...
The same judge who ruled the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional has now ruled that religious freedom is more important than transgender people receiving medically necessary health care. A U.S. District Court judge in Texas has overturned the protections written into ObamaCare for transgender people, ruling they violate the religious rights of...
