Last weekend in Richmond, Remi Wolf took Brown’s Island and didn’t give it back. Her sound doesn’t fit in a box — pop, funk, soul, indie — all smashed together and dragged through the dirt. Openly fluid, proudly weird, she’s built a world where you don’t ask...
I was sitting on the catio, watching the birds do their aerial mating dances, the bees and their flowers coming into bloom, thinking about regeneration and queer families. Sure, we can reproduce ourselves with a little help from our friends and science. Yet, with rare exceptions, gay men don’t raise gay children and gay women usually bring up...
This Sunday, Mom isn't the only reason to celebrate. VA Pride's Mr. & Miss Virginia Pride Pageant is returning for its second year on Sunday at Diversity Richmond, and it is definitely an exciting occasion. This all-inclusive pageant will see contestants of all shapes, sizes, and identities competing to become 2019's Mr. or Miss Virginia...
The State Department is attempting to block citizenship for the child of a same-sex couple, on a basis that would never be used against a different-sex couple. It's discrimination, and a Federal Judge has said as much. The U.S. State Dept. lost a federal court ruling that found it was discriminating against a legally-married same-sex couple. And...
With David Nygaard gone, we can at least be glad that Virginia Beach will still have LGBTQ representation on its City Council, in the person of former Hampton Roads Pride President Michael Berlucchi. On Tuesday, Virginia Beach's City Council voted 9-1 to appoint Hampton Roads LGBTQ activist Michael Berlucchi to fill a vacant seat on City Council....
Voting with our dollars has worked, at least temporarily -- boycotts of his hotel chain convinced the Sultan of Brunei not to have LGBTQ people in his country stoned to death. At least... not yet. International outrage appears to have temporarily halted Brunei's new death penalty, by stoning, for being gay, part of the country's adoption of...
Gerontologist Jay White has found that growing older takes on a significantly different meaning for LGBTQ folks. He'd like to learn more. Can you help? The universal truth: Everyone gets older and everyone ages. Aging may be a natural part of the human existence, but that does not mean people are happy about it. Often, aging is seen as a daunting...
Martinsville pastor Thomas Farrell of Thou Shall Ministries, who paid for the billboard, said that the message to create it "came from God." When I was younger, my best friend was wildly obsessed with horror movies, especially from the slasher era of the 70s and early 80s. This led him to dabble in a lot of fringe cult cinema, and one particular...
Hate crimes in Virginia rose nearly 50 percent from 2016 to 2017. This year, Attorney General Mark Herring proposed legislation to deal with the problem... but all of the bills died in the General Assembly. Virginia recorded more than 200 hate crimes in 2017 — up nearly 50% from the previous year, according to the latest data from the Virginia...
The Mormon Church has grappled with issues relating to LGBTQ rights for years now, and recently seem to be softening on the issue. Maybe this will help them along. The valedictorian for the top university of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints stunned families, faculty, and friends on Friday when he announced he is gay. “I stand...
