Twenty years ago, RVA Magazine and Gallery5 came to life together—two DIY efforts launched with no budget, no blueprint, and no permission. What they shared was a vision: that Richmond’s creative culture was worth showing up for, amplifying, and celebrating....
Focusing on the spiritual journey of David Bazan, aka Pedro The Lion, Strange Negotiations comes to the Grace Street Theater tomorrow night. The writers behind Critiques For The Culture are intrigued. Strange Negotiations is a new music documentary directed by award-winning filmmaker Brandon Vedder, and it is coming to Richmond this week. This...
Every Monday throughout June, The Byrd Theatre will celebrate Pride Month with #MonGays, a series spotlighting the LGBTQ community. This week, a film that should need no introduction: Paris Is Burning. Do you wish Blanca Evangelista were your mother? Has Lil Papi become your latest crush? Is Pray Tell the person you aspire to be? If you answered...
This Sunday, VA Pride and Hardywood will join together for their fourth annual celebration of Love On Tap. This signature Pride Month event began to celebrate the passage of marriage equality in Virginia and throughout the country, and continues as an anniversary celebration for several milestones in the LGBTQ civil rights struggle, from the...
He thinks transgender people are "delusional." He sees the fight for LGBTQ equality as a "clash of absolutes" where "religious liberty and sexual liberty" are forever at odds. He says the Equality Act, which would add sexual orientation and gender identity to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, is "weaponizing" the Supreme...
In this month's Amazon Trail, Lee Lynch begins Pride month by celebrating the long-overdue apology for Stonewall, then attempts to deal with a home-repair emergency. The Police Commissioner of the City of New York apologized on June 6, 2019 for the most publicized raid of a gay bar in the history of the world. Thank you, sir, but fifty years...
The "Fox & Friends" crew celebrated Texas Governor Greg Abbott's signing of the anti-LGBTQ "Save Chick-fil-A" bill into law by eating and praising the chicken fast food, and defending the Christian retailer by misrepresenting opposition to the bill and to the company. The "Save Chick-fil-A" law now makes it illegal in Texas for the government...
Every Monday throughout June, The Byrd Theatre will celebrate Pride Month with #MonGays, a series spotlighting the LGBTQ community. This week, Saturday Church brings us an up-close look at the joys and struggles of LGBTQ youth. Did you know that just 9% of young people identify as LGBTQ, yet queer kids account for roughly 40% of youth...
Richmond's second Pull For Pride, in which participants deadlift big weights to raise funds for local LGBTQ charities, takes over Triple Crossing tomorrow. In honor of Pride Month, Richmond will be hosting its second annual Pull For Pride fundraising event on June 15th at Triple Crossing in Fulton Hill. Pull For Pride is a deadlifting event...
Beginning June with Pride Night at City Stadium and holding a fundraiser for Diversity Richmond throughout the month, the Richmond Kickers are going the extra mile to show their pride. The Richmond Kickers, Richmond’s sole soccer team, kicked off their first game of June, celebrated as LGBTQ Pride Month, with a special Pride Night event. City...
