All eyes are on Saturday. The streets are buzzing with crowds rushing into clubs across the city—come join the raucous and be part of the energy. Got a show coming up? New single? Simply want someone to talk music? I am your guy at griffin@rvamag.com. Remi Wolf, Dana...
An addictive podcast created by The State alumni Kevin Allison, Risk! encourages both ordinary and famous people to tell their deepest secrets live on stage. There is virtually nothing that has not been done or covered by a podcast at this point -- from cooking to serial killer exposes. Even Levar Burton’s Reading Rainbow got in on the act....
Her 7-year-old daughter knows that homosexuality exists now, and she is not happy about it. In suburban Hanover County, the mother of a second-grader is "outraged" after learning that a book about the LGBTQ civil rights struggle was read to her daughter in class. Yesterday, WRIC's "8 Investigates" series reported on a complaint from Culley...
The resolution is non-binding, which makes it more symbolic than anything, but that's something... right? One can't help but feel that we'll be hearing about the trans military ban in some form or another for the rest of the Trump presidency -- even if said presidency extends all the way until 2024 (perish the thought). Last month, we heard that...
"We follow the law as this body has defined," DeVos claims – despite having tossed out hundreds of discrimination complaints without investigating them. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is in hot water after being grilled on Wednesday for her budget that totally eliminates funding for the Special Olympics. But there's another issue that was yet...
For LGBTQ journalists like us here at GayRVA, Broadly's new Gender Spectrum Collection will provide an essential resource. I never thought I'd see the day when I'd consider a library of stock photos to be a total game-changer. But then, it never would have occurred to me to do what Broadly did this week. Broadly's new Gender Spectrum Collection...
The Alabama State Senate is more willing to completely eliminate marriage licenses in their state than they are to accept marriage equality. Ever since the U.S. Supreme Court recognized that same-sex couples have the same constitutional rights and responsibilities of marriage as different-sex couples do, Alabama Republican state Senator Greg...
Just days after Thanksgiving last year, students in Clarksburg, West Virginia's Liberty High School band were told to go use the restroom before departing on a bus trip. 15-year old Michael Critchfield, a sophomore, went to use the boys restroom, and was soon followed in by the assistant principal, Lee Livengood. Livengood waited for him to exit...
Despite the Pentagon's plans to implement the transgender military ban in less than a month, one federal judge reminds the Defense Dept. that an injunction is still in force against it. The Pentagon was warned weeks ago that it did not have the legal authority to implement President Donald Trump's transgender troop ban, but officials did so any...
President Donald Trump is hosting Brazil's far right wing extremist President Jair Bolsonaro. In a joint press event aired live from the Rose Garden in the White House Bolsonaro announced he supports the American President's fight against same-sex marriage, transgender people, and fake news. "May I say that Brazil and the United States stand side...
