All these bands booked these shows specifically for me. Tons of great stuff this week, and a lot of it is bands that I have been dying to see. Check it out. You might die too. Got a show coming up? New single? Simply want someone to talk music? Hit me up...
A new mural was recently completed by artist Nico Cathcart featuring Aurora Higgs, a lauded Black transgender activist and speaker in Richmond’s LGBTQ+ community. Started in March, Women’s History Month, the colorful, vibrant piece focuses on the connections between humans and nature, as well as highlighting the beauty and strength in our...
Right-wing evangelical Franklin Graham spent the weekend promoting anti-LGBTQ extremist hate to his nearly 10 million Facebook followers, including by attacking The Walt Disney Company, criticizing the Biden administration’s support of medically-necessary treatment for transgender children, posting a video of his home state’s Lt. Governor...
So much for performative well-wishes that do nothing to improve the day-to-day lives of marginalized communities -- today, the Biden administration rolls out a slate of rule changes that offer concrete improvements for transgender and non-binary Americans while pushing back on recent state-level anti-trans legislation. March 31, 2022, marks the...
The bill that will do this, known in a masterpiece of doublespeak as the "Alabama Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act," will also make providing gender-affirming medical care to trans youth a felony. Imagine you’re a high school freshman English teacher and your best student from last year confides in you their biggest secret: they...
It's been a tough time for the LGBTQ community around the United States lately -- especially for LGBTQ youth. From Florida's infamous "Don't Say Gay" bill, which attempts to restrict all discussion of non-hetero sexual orientations and non-cis gender identities from Florida public schools (and make teachers criminally liable if they do speak...
"Investigate them without exception" is what administrators of Texas's Department of Family and Protective Services were told about reports describing the providing of gender-affirming care for transgender youth as "child abuse" -- even if they thought the complaints were without merit. Texas District Court Judge Amy Clark Meachum Friday...
A bill aiming to protect the right of government employees to oppose government policies advanced to the House floor this week. “The cancel culture has gotten to such that if you don’t agree, society wants to go and push that you’re penalized, even though it has nothing to do with your job,” Del. Glenn R. Davis, R-Virginia Beach said. Davis...
Virginia lawmakers blocked legislation that would allow school boards to opt out from policies and guidelines developed by the Virginia Department of Education to make K-12 environments more inclusive for transgender and nonbinary students. Committee votes for the similar House and Senate measures mostly came down to party lines. The Senate bill...
The world is healing in more ways than one. All over the world, people are standing together to fight against injustices, and the same is happening within the tattoo community. Once an exclusive subculture, tattoos are becoming more accepted in mainstream society and culture. What used to be an industry full of gatekeeping and hazing run...
