Richmond has always produced world-class talent and just as often, watched it leave. That cycle was exactly what Warren Jones, performer and co-founder of Prison Religion, and Christian Detres, filmmaker and longtime RVA Magazine contributor, set out to change. Their...
People out there have some pretty insane ideas about how sexuality works. This Greek Orthodox bishop's ideas are more bizarre than most. A Greek Orthodox bishop upset many people around the world recently when he declared the reason men are gay is because their parents engaged in a specific sex act – and the mother enjoyed it. He’s now...
Local drag performer Chicki Parm focuses on the funny, hosting a monthly comedy show in Richmond between tours across the country. Chase Keech has turned his love of drag and comedy into a full-time career performing as Richmond’s drag star Chicki Parm. “I would have never guessed I’d get to be a full-time drag queen. My wildest dreams have...
VA Congressman Denver Riggleman officiated a same-sex wedding earlier this month, contrary to his party's official platform. But an official Republican Party vote to censure him for it received very few votes, and ultimately failed. A lot of things are surprising about Denver Riggleman, the freshman Republican Congressman from Virginia's 5th...
The companies, listed on the group's website as "potential sponsors," are demanding to have their logos removed. And the "straight pride parade" people are very upset about it. An organization insisting that straight people represent an oppressed and marginalized group are holding a “Straight Pride” parade on August 31 in Boston. The...
The new Criterion Collection reissue of Hedwig And The Angry Inch brings us the ultimate version of a classic film about love, gender, and rock n' roll. There are two sides to every story. Maybe not so coincidentally, there are two sides to every person. Somewhere between Michael Fassbinder and Todd Haynes, fist-pumping and strutting in...
Diversity Richmond's third annual All-Americans Block Party is the perfect way to wrap up your week and celebrate Richmond's LGBTQ community. This weekend, it's time for the community to come together, as Diversity Richmond throws their third annual All-Americans Block Party. This indoor event is the perfect way to beat the heat and come together...
From use of slurs during his journalistic career to his checkered voting record, the rise of Boris Johnson is not good news for the LGBTQ community. Things haven't been too great for the LGBTQ community in England lately -- from the persistence of anti-trans rhetoric at Pride marches and in editorial pages to the ascent of Theresa May, a...
Despite his important work on codebreaking during WW II, Alan Turing was prosecuted under UK anti-homosexuality laws. Now, Britain takes another step to redeem their poor treatment of the groundbreaking computer scientist. Alan Turing was a brilliant British scientist who helped invent artificial intelligence, and whose work in codebreaking was...
Calling the decision "censorship," the Republican Study Committee is pressuring Amazon to end its ban of conversion therapy books by anti-gay pyschotherapist Joseph Nicolosi. In an astonishing act of federal government overreach into the private sector, a far-right group of House Republicans are working to force Amazon to end its recent ban on...
