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Four Percent of Marriages in Virginia Have Been Same-Sex Unions

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...

ANIMAL Celebrates Pride With A (Go! Pop!) Bang! At The Dark Room

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...

The House Of Hashi: Shablamming Their Way Across The Commonwealth

Our 2019 Fall Pride Guide, in collaboration with VA Pride, comes out at PrideFest this Saturday! In this article from the magazine, we take a closer look at Virginia's newest ambassadors of ball culture: the House Of Hashi. Seldom does the Byrd Theatre witness a...

The Freedom of Drag: Ongina’s Charismatic Evolution

Our 2019 Fall Pride Guide, in collaboration with VA Pride, comes out at PrideFest Saturday! In this article from the magazine, we talk to RuPaul's Drag Race star Ongina, who will appear onstage at VA PrideFest this weekend! Small in stature and bursting with star...

We’re A Little Late With Lilly Singh, But She Is Right On Time

As the only LGBTQ woman of color with a late-night show in 2019, Lilly Singh is kind of a big deal. Late-night television has long been plagued with the same old exhausting issue -- it's overflowing with bland cis straight white men telling their overworked, hacky...

The Miseducation Of Richie Tozier

The journey of a central character in It Chapter Two makes it one of the most uniquely empowering LGBTQ films of the year. One of Stephen King’s most famous stories saw its newest film debut recently. Not only is It: Chapter Two (along with its predecessor, It)...

SHOUT!ing Our Truth

This Sunday at TheatreLAB, SHOUT! brings the voices of LGBTQ military veterans and families to the stage for one night only. This Sunday night, TheatreLAB will present SHOUT!, a play focused around the stories of LGBTQ veterans and military family members. The play...

Virginia Pride Takes Us Out To The Ballgame

The Richmond Flying Squirrels and VA Pride are presenting the first-ever Pride Night at The Diamond this Thursday. Hooray! After a year and a half or so of rainy weather, it's been a real refresher to get the warm, sunny weather we've been experiencing this Pride Month. And there's nothing better for a sunny summer evening than enjoying a ball...

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Pastor Ericksen Shows The Right Way To Be An Ally

At Oregon's Clackamas United Church of Christ, Pastor Adam Ericksen preaches inclusion, courage, and love -- an example for allies everywhere. Pride Month is traditionally supposed to be a very happy, powerful, celebratory time across the nation for members of the LGBTQ community. Despite that news continues to race across our television screens...

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MonGays: Paris Is Burning

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...

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The Amazon Trail: A Good Start To A Proud Summer

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...

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