Keep sending me songs! Keep sending me shows! I love music! I love being alive! I love Richmond! Got a show coming up? New single? Simply want someone to talk music? I am your guy at griffin@rvamag.com. Friday Cheers | Dogpark, Weekend Plans, Caroline VainFriday, May...
Queer Eye's Jonathan Van Ness has released a children's book about a non-binary guinea pig who is also a gymnastics prodigy. Can this story possibly be any more adorable? Jonathan Van Ness of Queer Eye and A Gay of Thrones fame continues his role in the world as a wholesome, encouraging presence who must be protected at all costs. Van Ness came...
Before its upcoming run at Movieland Boulevard Square starting January 24, Jerry Williams, producer and director of Spider Mites Of Jesus: The Dirtwoman Documentary, took his film to seven different film festivals. Here's how it went. Here's a choice between two movies: One features three hot men with their shirts off and the other showcases a...
By sending letters demanding county clerks cease issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, Tennessee attorney David Fowler is setting the stage for a lawsuit challenging marriage equality in Tennessee and beyond. Last week, Tennessee attorney David Fowler sent a letter to all 95 of Tennessee's county clerks demanding that they cease and...
The 25-year-old YouTuber with over 12 million followers came out in a video posted on her YouTube channel after a blackmail attempt. Nikkie de Jager, the popular Dutch YouTuber known to her millions of followers as Nikkie Tutorials, revealed in a video posted on her YouTube channel Monday that she is a transgender woman. In the video, de Jager...
Bath Door Balks at Booting Hostage! Hostage Trapped for NINETY MINUTES! Suspect Subdued with Electrical Weapon A woman in a remote town in Oregon suffered a harrowing ninety minutes before her rescue by three brave public servants. The woman, who wishes to remain unnamed for “professional” reasons, reports pounding on the hollow core washroom...
The Virginia Values Act, introduced Friday in the General Assembly by Senator Adam Ebbin, would offer extensive (and much needed) non-discrimination protections to Virginia's LGBTQ citizens. Sen. Adam Ebbin, D-Alexandria, introduced Friday SB 868, called the “Virginia Values Act,” which would amend existing nondiscrimination laws to extend...
A recent dust-up over tweets the British comedian made about transgender people has mainly left us confused. Last month, Ricky Gervais tweeted about trans people a whole bunch, and by the end of it all, he'd contradicted himself multiple times, frustrating both the UK's ascendant TERF movement and LGBTQ people everywhere. Can we make heads or...
Artists Mahari Chabwera and Micah David Scott tackle the question of evolution through art with their new exhibition, Evolution Of The Sacred Self, which opens Friday at Iridian Gallery at Diversity Richmond. Diversity Richmond's Iridian Gallery premieres its first new exhibition of the year (and the decade, depending on how you count it)...
Youthful transgender advocate Gavin Grimm continues to make Virginia proud. Gavin Grimm is still only 20 years old, but he's spent nearly a quarter of his young life at the center of the ongoing struggle for transgender rights in America. As we all should know by now, it all started back when he was just another high school student, fighting for...
