Richmond has long been home to a thriving arts scene, with well-established membership-driven spaces like Artspace and the long-running 1708 Gallery providing vital platforms for artists. However, as the city continues to change, younger creatives...
In this month's Amazon Trail, Lee Lynch tries, and mostly fails, to understand her wife's natural facility with machines and appliances. It’s a shame, the things they don’t teach us at Butch School. In the Femme Gadgets class, I learned the basics of eyelash brushes and powdering noses and hoop, stud, drop, climber, and jacket earrings. The femme...
The hip hop festival coming to Charlottesville throughout next week hopes to promote an inclusive view of hip hop with a Tuesday night showcase featuring LGBTQ artists. Charlottesville’s third annual Nine Pillars Hip Hop Cultural Fest is happening next week, and for the first time, it will feature an all-LGBTQ performer showcase. “We’re cutting...
Pete Buttigieg, the Democratic Party's first openly gay presidential candidate, has been pushing back against Vice President Pence's anti-gay agenda throughout his campaign. 2020 Democratic candidate Pete Buttigieg is responding to attacks from Vice President Mike Pence, who says the South Bend, Indiana mayor's belief that God makes...
Even though it gets less publicity now, Chick-Fil-A still gives lots of money to anti-gay groups. These hockey fans found a very public way to voice their displeasure. Between periods at a hockey game isn't the most likely place to find heartwarming events taking place; usually there's just a Zamboni ice-resurfacing machine uneventfully passing...
Pop singer Taylor Swift is putting herself out there for what she believes in, y’all. Recently Swift donated $113,000 to The Tennessee Equality Project, an LGBTQ advocacy group in her home state, to help combat an onslaught of various discriminatory bills that have been dubbed the “Slate of Hate.” Get on with your bad self, Swifty. If passed in...
Starting in Fall 2019, VCU students will have the chance to minor in an intersectional, multi-disciplinary study of the LGBTQ community. Virginia Commonwealth University students wanting to learn more about the LGBTQ community, in all its many-splendored glory, just got a much bigger opportunity. VCU has announced that, beginning in Fall 2019, it...
Equality Virginia's annual black-tie event will shine a light on those who've made a difference for Virginia's LGBTQ community this year. Equality Virginia is continuing to recognize devoted LGBTQ leaders and activists as OUTstanding Virginians at their 16th annual Commonwealth Dinner, which will be held Saturday, April 13 at the Greater Richmond...
If the University of Richmond law student is elected, he'll be the second openly gay state Senator in Virginia -- as well as one of the youngest. Zachary Brown is your average 23-year old first year law student, except in one way -- he’s also running for Virginia State Senate. “Oh my gosh, it is exactly what you would imagine,” Brown laughed....
The owners of the beautiful and historic Star Barn, a popular wedding venue in Pennsylvania, have banned same-sex couples from marrying in the restored 1872 building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. David and Tierney Abel cite their Christian religious beliefs for discriminating against same-sex couples. "Stone Gables,...
