This article is part of the official Virginia Pride Festival Guide, released ahead of the celebration on Saturday, September 27. Presented with the support of Out RVA, Allianz, Hit Play, Virginia Lottery, CarMax, Bank of America, CoStar Group, Genworth, CapTech,...
A kerfuffle in Loudoun County over critical race theory and the rights of transgender students to go by their chosen names and pronouns has attracted the attention of right-wing evangelical activist Franklin Graham. Which is the last thing Virginia needs. Evangelical and anti-LGBTQ activist Franklin Graham is urging Americans to “pray...
Las Vegas Raiders defensive lineman Carl Nassib announced in an Instagram video that he is gay, making him the first active NFL player to come out as gay. Additionally, he announced a six-figure donation to the Trevor Project. America, meet your first openly gay active NFL player. Las Vegas Raiders defensive lineman Carl Nassib, 28, in an...
In this month's Amazon Trail, Lee Lynch talks about the way that, as she's found a balance in life, her ability to keep her balance while walking around has begun to diminish. Since childhood, I have been looking forward to growing old enough to know pretty much which end is up in life, to reaching Social Security age in order to write full-time,...
The chicken sandwich wars are really heating up out there. Popeyes was just the beginning; now Burger King will spend Pride month donating profits from its new chicken sandwich to Human Rights Campaign. Burger King's announcement last week that they would donate 40 cents to Human Rights Campaign for each of their new Ch'King sandwiches sold...
With this week's White House Proclamation of LGBTQ Pride Month, President Joe Biden ends a four-year period in which the highest office of the land ignored Pride Month under Donald Trump -- while damaging the LGBTQ community in a number of other ways. President Joe Biden Tuesday morning issued an official White House LGBTQ Pride proclamation, the...
Anti-LGBTQ activists in Texas are attempting to find a way around last year's Supreme Court decision forbidding employment discrimination against LGBTQ workers by making their discrimination equal across genders. And the court just might go for it. June 15 will be the one-year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision...
Under Trump, the US State Department prohibited children born outside the United States from gaining US citizenship unless they were biologically related to both parents, a policy that targeted LGBTQ families almost exclusively. Last week, Biden's State Dept. ended that policy. The U.S. State Dept. under Secretary of State Antony...
In this month's Amazon Trail, Lee Lynch talks about the end of quarantine, the fear of being around people again, and supporting local businesses in their time of need. It’s finally here. The end of total lockdown. Am I ready? Absolutely not. I like my burrow. I don’t wanna play with others. We’ve fashioned a comfortable little routine. Week...
Diversity Richmond and VA Pride are now one organization, and they are currently hard at work to bring us the first Pridefest of the post-pandemic era this fall. Decades ago, it was hard to imagine that Virginia’s annual Pridefest would swell from 75 to over 40,000 attendees. The commonwealth has in recent years moved to better protect...
