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‘Absolutely fuming furious’: Trump Arts Cuts Strike Richmond’s Studio Two Three

by RVA Staff | ART, COMMUNITY, POLITICS, QUEER RVA, RICHMOND NEWS

Local community arts organization Studio Two Three has had a previously approved federal grant rescinded by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), according to an email received this week. The grant, totaling $30,000, had been awarded for programming planned for...

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Critiques For The Culture: TheatreLAB’s An Octoroon

In Critiques For The Culture's latest contribution to GayRVA, Taneasha White and Brooke Taylor examine TheatreLAB's An Octoroon, and ask: Did this play about racial relations in the 19th century -- and today -- achieve its intended goal? Critiques for The...

Public School’s LGBTQ-Supportive Mural Deemed ‘Obscene’ by Church So Administrators Have It Painted Over

Why is a public school being housed in a building owned by a church, and how can it be required to not do anything that would violate "Catholic moral values, ethics and faith"? A New Jersey taxpayer-funded public charter school run by a private non-profit organization...

New Trump Rule Would Allow Transgender People To Be Denied Health Care

The attacks from this administration just do not stop. On Friday, Trump's Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed a rule that seems calculated to have devastating effects on LGBTQ health care in the United States. Roger Severino, who is the director of...

Richmond Public Schools Adds LGBTQ-Affirming Language to Student Code of Responsible Ethics

RPS and Side By Side worked together in order to make school a more inclusive place for Richmond's LGBTQ students. At last Monday's meeting of the School Board for Richmond Public Schools, the school district presented the first draft of a revision to the school...

New HUD Policy Proposal Would Let Homeless Shelters Refuse Access To Trans People

This callous move affects a population significantly more likely to experience homelessness than the general population. On Wednesday, Trump's Department of Housing And Urban Development (HUD) released a proposal for a revised rule that would pave the way for homeless...

Virginia National Guard States Intent To Comply With Trans Military Ban

Virginia's National Guard not only said they'd enforce the trans military ban in the Commonwealth, but also backed the deceptive anti-LGBTQ reasoning for the ban given by the Trump administration. On Tuesday, Major General Timothy P. Williams, the Adjutant General of...

Texas’ Anti-LGBTQ ‘Save Chick-Fil-A’ Bill Is Very Close To Becoming Law

This "religious freedom" bill is the latest in a long string of bills intended to protect companies who support anti-LGBTQ discrimination. A couple of weeks ago, word had it that the bill working its way through the Texas legislature, known as the "Save Chick-Fil-A"...

Senator Calls Equality Act Unnecessary, Says It “Divides Our Nation”

Utah Republican Mike Lee previously authored the First Amendment Defense Act, which attempted to legalize many forms of anti-LGBTQ discrimination. A U.S. Senator is speaking out in opposition after the House of Representatives passed the historic Equality Act Friday...

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