Nearly a decade after refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, former Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis is back in the headlines and this time, she’s asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges, the 2015 ruling that made marriage...
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...
LGBTQ bars and restaurants are the lifeblood of our community culture here in Richmond, and the COVID-19 outbreak has placed a heavy strain on them all. Here's how you can help make sure they stick around. As we are all aware, the COVID-19 pandemic has upended the way restaurants and bars do business -- if they're even able to be open at all....
"If you want to continue living like this, it's the flames of hell for you," evangelical pastor Franklin Graham has said. But in an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham, he swears he's not homophobic. Franklin Graham is doing some public relations work for his Samaritan’s Purse conservative Christian non-profit after the organization was...
Times are tough all around, but Central Virginia's theatre world is facing a particularly tough time at the moment. This podcast takes a closer look at the situation. Chances are if you know Jerry Williams, it's from his recent documentary, Spider Mites Of Jesus, which focuses on the colorful life of Richmond legend Donnie Corker, aka Dirtwoman....
In this month's edition of The Amazon Trail, Lee Lynch mourns the loss of trailblazing lesbian activist and writer Phyllis Lyon. "We lost a giant today," tweeted California State Sen. Scott Weiner, who is chairman of the LGBTQ caucus. A giant is exactly what the ninety-five-year-old Phyllis Lyon was, along with her partner Del Martin, who died at...
Bishop Harry Jackson, who delivered the presidential Easter blessing, has a history of opposing marriage equality and was once on NOM's payroll. President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence hosted Bishop Harry Jackson, a virulently anti-LGBTQ activist, in the Oval Office Friday to deliver an Easter Blessing. Trump introduced Jackson as a...
A report from Southern Poverty Law Center found anti-LGBTQ hate groups increased significantly in 2019, even as hate groups overall fell slightly. Anti-LGBTQ hate groups are rapidly growing across America, a result, the Southern Poverty Law Center says, of President Donald Trump’s leadership, including his embrace of those groups. The White House...
