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The Amazon Trail: Please Understand How Much Danger We Are In

This month in her Amazon Trail column, Lee Lynch tells us all to keep "throwing the bums out" foremost in our minds during this election season. My sailor friend e-mailed me last night. She had just gotten home from her women’s group, where they discussed the fears...

Drag Bingo Returns To Diversity Richmond This Thursday

Get ready to get fabulous with the city's most entertaining bingo game, as Diversity Richmond hosts its first Drag Bingo night of 2020 this Thursday! It's time once again! This Thursday, February 20, Diversity Richmond is throwing its first Drag Bingo event of 2020,...

Anti-Gay ‘Hookers For Jesus’ Group Gets Major DOJ Grant

The Department of Justice gave a grant from their anti-human trafficking program to Hookers For Jesus, which restricts what occupants of their safe houses are allowed to read and labels homosexuality immoral. According to an exclusive report from Reuters, internal...

Queens Of Color Take Center Stage

With Black Girl Magic, Melanin Monroe has created a series of drag shows exclusively featuring queens of color. The next edition, featuring The Vixen from RuPaul's Drag Race, comes to Fallout on Sunday. Richmond drag queen Melanin Monroe is preparing for the second...

Pals Of Dorothy: Delivering LGBTQ Entertainment To Rural Virginia

For Lynchburg production company Pals Of Dorothy, it's important to bring LGBTQ stories beyond the big cities, and make clear that the LGBTQ community exists everywhere. Richmond is no stranger to LGBTQ film and theatre, but Lynchburg-based production company Pals of...

How To Flex Your LGBTQ Super Power

In this excerpt from his book Pride Leadership, Dr. Steve Yacovelli tells us how to make 2020 "the year that being queer is your key to a courageous career." We all make New Year’s resolutions, from the daydreamingly ambitious to the practical to those that we only...

Hundreds of LGBTQ Advocates Lobby Lawmakers for Protections

Equality Virginia and the Commonwealth's LGBTQ community continue to lobby state legislators for important LGBTQ protections. Now that Democrats control the General Assembly, they're having some success. The day after hundreds lobbied lawmakers on behalf of LGBTQ...

Times Square Angel Brings Drag Style To Classic Christmas Themes

Times Square Angel is a drag-themed period piece bringing a classic Christmas story to the mean streets of mid-20th century New York, and Richmond Triangle Players bring it to fabulous life this holiday season. The Richmond Triangle Players’ latest production, Times Square Angel, puts a new spin on Christmas themes. Described as “A Christmas...

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