For the Richmond we know, “fancy” doesn’t belong to the country club set. It doesn’t sip cocktails under chandeliers or care much about matching buttons. Here, fancy has dirt on its boots and glitter in its hair. It shows up to a protest in drag. It haunts the streets...
Captain Michael Bender, who became Richmond Police Department's new LGBTQ Liaison in August, wants to ensure that Richmond's LGBTQ community feels welcomed and included throughout the city. In June 1969, police raided Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City, sparking two nights of rioting that have gone down in history as a catalyst of the gay...
British actress Seyi Omooba isn't apologizing but doubling down, suing for "discrimination" because people don't want to hire her now that they know about her intolerant beliefs. Oops. Sometimes we really, really can have nice things, y’all. Especially when it is in the form of homophobic people getting haunted by the ghost of Facebook Past. This...
Our 2019 Fall Pride Guide, in collaboration with VA Pride, is out now! In this article from the magazine, we learn more about this year's VA Pride Firework honoree, Side By Side Executive Director Ted Lewis. You might know this year’s VA Pride Firework Award honoree, Ted Lewis, from their work as Executive Director for Side By Side: Richmond’s...
Our 2019 Fall Pride Guide, in collaboration with VA Pride, is out now! In this article from the magazine, Outwire 757 co-founder Eric Hause gives us a guide to planning your all-day, all-gay getaway with Virginia Tourism's LGBT Travel Program! Fifty years ago, a $100-a-week advertising copywriter named Robin McLaughlin at Richmond’s Martin &...
"My first time attending VA PrideFest ended with me being 10 pounds lighter," writes GayRVA contributor Christopher Brown. Richmond’s annual VA PrideFest doesn’t happen in June, like many Pride festivals across the nation. It instead takes place in late September, and you would think that's a good idea, for a few reasons. First, with LGBTQ Pride...
In Critiques For The Culture’s latest contribution to GayRVA, Taneasha White and Brooke Taylor review the Richmond Triangle Players’ Falsettos, a musical telling the comedic, dramatic story of a family turned upside down. William Finn and James Lapine’s 1981 Falsettos is a musical set in the 1980s and early 90s. The story surrounds Marvin, played...
Three state regulatory boards have passed guidance to ban conversion therapy, but Virginia's LGBTQ community wants laws passed that will outlaw the practice outright. Adam Trimmer attended several of the Pride week events leading to Saturday’s VA PrideFest on Brown’s Island. The road to the LGBTQ community has been difficult for 30-year-old...
Since marriage equality came to Virginia, a significant amount of the marriages taking place in the state have been same-sex marriages. Same-sex couples have made up 1 of every 26 marriages in Virginia since such unions were legalized in the commonwealth in 2014. In a half-dozen localities — ranging from cities such as Richmond and Norfolk to...
The celebrated queer dance party, ANIMAL, returns to The Dark Room with a post-PrideFest throwdown featuring Baltimore club star Rye Rye. If you're planning to leave the house at all tomorrow, we expect to see you at Brown's Island. The park island on the James River is playing host to the 2019 VA PrideFest throughout the day this Saturday -- not...
