On the edge of the West End, where the fringes of Richmond bleed into the sprawl of Henrico, I came across what could only be described as a warehouse -- jutting out of the asphalt and framed in a wild tangle of dogwoods. A door hung open on rusted hinges; laughter...
This Thursday, advocacy group Born Perfect presents a digital event featuring a film and panel discussion focusing on notorious conversion therapy group Love In Action. On Thursday, May 21, anti-conversion therapy advocacy and support group Born Perfect will present a digital event based around the film This Is What Love In Action Looks Like. In...
It’s that time again. I need to find a healthcare provider. I live in a rural community where there is a large turnover of medical professionals and a constant shortage of qualified staff. The health organization that provides these services seems to have difficulty attracting talent. It’s common knowledge in the communities it covers that it’s a...
Coronavirus is making some right-wing extremists a little crazy. For example, Pink Swastika author Scott Lively, who's now preparing for the "socialist End Times." Scott Lively, a Trump-loving former GOP gubernatorial candidate, is telling Christians it is their “duty” to build an underground railroad and prepare to wage a violent revolution in...
With their video for "Some Do," Richmond indie-rock group Deau Eyes presents a positive message of inclusion and acceptance -- along with some excellent tuneage. Ali Thibodeau is Deau Eyes, a Richmond-based singer-songwriter whose debut album, Let It Leave, will be out on Egghunt Records next month. However, a few singles from it have already...
Run by Christian right activist Roger Severino, the Health And Human Services office has been pushing in this direction for a while now. Roger Severino, a Christian right activist who heads the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services’s Office for Civil Rights, is one step closer to his own personal goal of removing protections for LGBTQ patients,...
Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring joined 19 other state Attorneys General in asking the US Department Of Health to ease restrictions on LGBTQ blood donation. Discriminatory policies dating back to the early days of the AIDS crisis continue to place restrictions on the ability of gay men and other LGBTQ people to donate blood. At the time of...
This year's Commonwealth Dinner may have been cancelled, but Equality Virginia's OUTstanding Virginians of 2020 still deserve recognition. The COVID-19 pandemic is messing everyone up, and Virginia's LGBTQ community is certainly not immune. Equality Virginia's 17th Annual Commonwealth Dinner, originally scheduled for March 28, had to be...
A former Liberty student shares his experiences with conversion therapy on campus -- and the profound negative effects it had on his life and the lives of many others. We're only a month into quarantine, and already Liberty University, the world’s largest evangelical college located in Lynchburg, Virginia, and its president, Jerry Falwell Jr.,...
After all these years, Virginia's original anti-LGBTQ TV preacher, Pat Robertson, is still using catastrophic events as an excuse to push the same hateful agenda he's always had. Televangelist and former Republican presidential candidate Pat Robertson is blaming the coronavirus pandemic on same-sex marriage and abortion – or at least, saying God...
