For the Richmond we know, “fancy” doesn’t belong to the country club set. It doesn’t sip cocktails under chandeliers or care much about matching buttons. Here, fancy has dirt on its boots and glitter in its hair. It shows up to a protest in drag. It haunts the streets...
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...
For the first time in over a generation, Democrats control both houses of the General Assembly, and advocates are working to ensure that this has positive results for Virginia's LGBTQ community. It hasn't been all that many years since the dawn of a new General Assembly session meant just as many proposed bills designed to diminish LGBTQ rights...
Disagreements between different factions within the United Methodist Church, mainly over whether the church should allow same-sex marriage and LGBTQ clergy, have led to a split. On Friday, January 3, leaders of the United Methodist Church formally announced plans for splitting the church. The reason? A fundamental divide between more liberal...
We'll never know for sure whether Star Wars characters Finn and Poe were really in love, but hey... there's a lesbian kiss in a background scene at the end of Rise Of Skywalker. For many fans, though, that's not good enough. The Star Wars fandom has simultaneous reason to rejoice and lament, as their favorite and most dreaded time of the year has...
According to a new report, LGBTQ people are more likely to suffer social isolation as they age, and that social isolation & less access to health care can result in an increase in health problems for LGBTQ elders. A new report by University of California San Francisco is making a big claim: LGBTQ people are at heightened risk of dementia....
Another year has gone into the books, full of ups and downs for the LGBTQ community here in Virginia and all around the world. As we celebrate the beginning of a new decade and look forward to a brighter year ahead, we wanted to take one last look back at the year that was, with a recap of GayRVA's most popular stories from 2019. From drag queens...
