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Our Ultimate Guide to Richmond Summer Concerts and Festivals 2025

Our Ultimate Guide to Richmond Summer Concerts and Festivals 2025

Let’s be honest: most local summer music guides read like they were written by someone who’s never been to a show. A few safe headliners. Maybe a festival or two. So we made our own and put it all in one place for easy reference. This is RVA Magazine’s...



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You’ll Never Know If You Don’t Ask

Equality Virginia's new "Ask A Trans Person" panel series seeks to raise trans visibility and highlight transgender Virginians' need for civil rights protections. 87 percent of Americans say they know a gay person, but only 16 percent report knowing a a trans person,...

Breaking The Silence: LGBTQ Veterans Share Their Truth

This Veterans Day, Diversity Richmond will host an evening of stories from LGBTQ veterans and armed services members, in order to help create a community for current and former service members who are too often isolated. One million LGBTQ military veterans. 80,000...

Opinion: We Have A Blue Virginia. What Will We Do With It?

GayRVA Editor-In-Chief Marilyn Drew Necci has an extensive wish list for our new Democratic General Assembly, one that starts with LGBTQ civil rights and goes a lot farther from there. Well, it's finally happened -- no matter how your mom or your Trump-loving former...

‘Ex-Gay’ Group Goes To DC To Lobby Against Equality Act

The group of "ex-gay"/"formerly transgender" people, members of CHANGED and Church United, claim LGBTQ people aren't discriminated against, and that conversion therapy isn't being practiced anywhere in the US. A small group of so-called “ex-gay” and “formerly...

Hollins University Changes Policy On Transgender Students

The new policy allows students who transition while attending the woman's college to graduate, and makes it easier for transgender women to apply for admission. Roanoke County-based woman's college Hollins University announced Wednesday that changes had been made to...

Tom Brady Is Extremely Invested In Archaic Gender Roles

Parenting has taught the star quarterback that not every boy wants to do the same things. What a groundbreaking revelation. Tom Brady is struggling with parenthood. But he wants us to know that despite all the curveballs his kids throw at him, he is still managing.  As it turns out, the much-valorized quarterback for the New England Patriots has...

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The Amazon Trail: The Good Things in Life

In this month's Amazon Trail, Lee Lynch takes time amid our chaotic socio-political climate to enjoy the finer things. Like ice cream. As disheartened as I am about all that is going on in our country and our planet, there are times when I have to appreciate the good things in life. They are often about ice cream. I was in Pittsburgh,...

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