Getting lost in it. Really loving this week's lineup, all sorts of different stuff, dancing to it all. Got a show coming up? New single? Simply want someone to talk music? I am your guy at griffin@rvamag.com. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMzV4llPgMs&t=51s...
For some LGBTQ students at Lynchburg's Liberty University, life was tough even before coronavirus came to campus. Eli Germanotta had finished their meal at the Reber-Thomas Dining Hall and started to walk back to their dorm when they began to smell alcohol and spray paint. “There were jocks running away shouting slurs like faggot,” said...
Volunteers are asked to "support" Graham's anti-LGBTQ beliefs, while a New York state senator warns the organization not to discriminate. North Carolina’s infamous anti-LGBTQ activist, Franklin Graham, a religious extremist who is closely tied to President Donald Trump, is behind the emergency COVID-19 field hospital in New York City’s Central...
Plans are changing. Alternate arrangements are being made. Around Richmond and central Virginia, LGBTQ organizations are adjusting to the restrictions required by coronavirus. Here's what you need to know. From the tediousness of sheltering in place to the terrifying implications of lost income to the frustrating experience that shopping for...
On International Transgender Day Of Visibility, it's the perfect time to clarify the true identity of a main character from the hottest new Netflix show this year, Tiger King. It's Transgender Day of Visibility, but at least one transgender person who has been in the forefront of a lot of discussions lately isn't being recognized at all. It's...
This delay is good news in particular for LGBTQ people who might need to do some work to get their documentation in order, and are currently unable to leave the house in order to do so. The deadline for Real IDs has been extended until October 2021. The move was prompted by widespread Department of Motor Vehicle customer service center closures...
In Idaho, two bills attempting to roll back civil rights for the state's transgender community are headed to the governor's desk. Advocates urge him to veto both, but with the news consumed by coronavirus, will their pleas be heard? There's no denying it: coronavirus has got us all messed up. Whether we're worried about friends, family, and...
In the weeks that followed Miami's Winter Party Festival, which ended on March 10, several attendees have tested positive for COVID-19. One of the deadliest things about coronavirus is that it has a long incubation period. A person can live symptom-free for up to two weeks after their initial infection, and they're contagious the whole time. In...
In this month's Amazon Trail, Lee Lynch contends with her advancing age and tries to figure out gardening in the middle of a coronavirus outbreak that reminds her how vulnerable so many of us are. When I asked for advice about growing potatoes, our friend Mary wrote, “Here is what Mick does: blood meal, green sand, or wood ash, bone meal, a...
GayRVA is partnering with Community Marketing & Insights for their 14th Annual survey of the LGBTQ community around the world. Add your voice! It's time for the 14th Annual LGBTQ Community Survey, presented by Community Marketing & Insights, an organization that focuses on collecting demographic data about the LGBTQ community. Along with...
