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The Amazon Trail: Please Understand How Much Danger We Are In

This month in her Amazon Trail column, Lee Lynch tells us all to keep "throwing the bums out" foremost in our minds during this election season. My sailor friend e-mailed me last night. She had just gotten home from her women’s group, where they discussed the fears...

Drag Bingo Returns To Diversity Richmond This Thursday

Get ready to get fabulous with the city's most entertaining bingo game, as Diversity Richmond hosts its first Drag Bingo night of 2020 this Thursday! It's time once again! This Thursday, February 20, Diversity Richmond is throwing its first Drag Bingo event of 2020,...

Anti-Gay ‘Hookers For Jesus’ Group Gets Major DOJ Grant

The Department of Justice gave a grant from their anti-human trafficking program to Hookers For Jesus, which restricts what occupants of their safe houses are allowed to read and labels homosexuality immoral. According to an exclusive report from Reuters, internal...

Queens Of Color Take Center Stage

With Black Girl Magic, Melanin Monroe has created a series of drag shows exclusively featuring queens of color. The next edition, featuring The Vixen from RuPaul's Drag Race, comes to Fallout on Sunday. Richmond drag queen Melanin Monroe is preparing for the second...

Pals Of Dorothy: Delivering LGBTQ Entertainment To Rural Virginia

For Lynchburg production company Pals Of Dorothy, it's important to bring LGBTQ stories beyond the big cities, and make clear that the LGBTQ community exists everywhere. Richmond is no stranger to LGBTQ film and theatre, but Lynchburg-based production company Pals of...

How To Flex Your LGBTQ Super Power

In this excerpt from his book Pride Leadership, Dr. Steve Yacovelli tells us how to make 2020 "the year that being queer is your key to a courageous career." We all make New Year’s resolutions, from the daydreamingly ambitious to the practical to those that we only...

Hundreds of LGBTQ Advocates Lobby Lawmakers for Protections

Equality Virginia and the Commonwealth's LGBTQ community continue to lobby state legislators for important LGBTQ protections. Now that Democrats control the General Assembly, they're having some success. The day after hundreds lobbied lawmakers on behalf of LGBTQ...

The Amazon Trail: All I Want For Christmas Is A Left Earbud

In this month's Amazon Trail, Lee Lynch tries to focus on the big issues confronting the world, but can't help getting frustrated about how difficult it is to make her earbuds work properly. Not really. My greatest wishes would be for world peace, a year of pain-free good health for all my family, friends, and neighbors, and a brand-new president...

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Father Praises Utah School for Firing Teacher Who Went on 10 Minute Rant Telling His Son ‘Homosexuality Is Wrong’

Former Dancing With The Stars choreographer Louis van Amstel explained that the teacher's rant was triggered when his son mentioned his two dads during a Thanksgiving lesson on gratitude. A Utah father is praising his son’s school after the boy and his classmates were forced to endure a 10-minute anti-gay rant from a substitute teacher...

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Billy Dee Williams Has Come Out as Gender Fluid

For legendary Star Wars actor Billy Dee Williams, both he/him and she/her pronouns work every time. Billy Dee Williams has long been best known for his role as the space smuggler, Lando Calrissian of the Star Wars franchise, and just in general as one of the coolest people in the galaxy. Now he can add LGBTQ role model to his lengthy list of...

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Billy Dee Williams and Harrison Ford as Lando Calrissian and Han Solo in Star Wars