Hundreds gathered in Monroe Park this afternoon for a Labor Day rally organized by 50501 Movement and 50501 Virginia, demanding “Workers Over Billionaires.” The event, which kicked off at 4:30 PM, brought together community members, activists, and labor advocates to...
"My first time attending VA PrideFest ended with me being 10 pounds lighter," writes GayRVA contributor Christopher Brown. Richmond’s annual VA PrideFest doesn’t happen in June, like many Pride festivals across the nation. It instead takes place in late September, and you would think that's a good idea, for a few reasons. First, with LGBTQ Pride...
In Critiques For The Culture’s latest contribution to GayRVA, Taneasha White and Brooke Taylor review the Richmond Triangle Players’ Falsettos, a musical telling the comedic, dramatic story of a family turned upside down. William Finn and James Lapine’s 1981 Falsettos is a musical set in the 1980s and early 90s. The story surrounds Marvin, played...
Three state regulatory boards have passed guidance to ban conversion therapy, but Virginia's LGBTQ community wants laws passed that will outlaw the practice outright. Adam Trimmer attended several of the Pride week events leading to Saturday’s VA PrideFest on Brown’s Island. The road to the LGBTQ community has been difficult for 30-year-old...
Since marriage equality came to Virginia, a significant amount of the marriages taking place in the state have been same-sex marriages. Same-sex couples have made up 1 of every 26 marriages in Virginia since such unions were legalized in the commonwealth in 2014. In a half-dozen localities — ranging from cities such as Richmond and Norfolk to...
The celebrated queer dance party, ANIMAL, returns to The Dark Room with a post-PrideFest throwdown featuring Baltimore club star Rye Rye. If you're planning to leave the house at all tomorrow, we expect to see you at Brown's Island. The park island on the James River is playing host to the 2019 VA PrideFest throughout the day this Saturday -- not...
Our 2019 Fall Pride Guide, in collaboration with VA Pride, comes out at PrideFest this Saturday! In this article from the magazine, we take a closer look at Virginia's newest ambassadors of ball culture: the House Of Hashi. Seldom does the Byrd Theatre witness a standing ovation, but this past Pride Month, the House of Hashi had a 400-person...
Our 2019 Fall Pride Guide, in collaboration with VA Pride, comes out at PrideFest Saturday! In this article from the magazine, we talk to RuPaul's Drag Race star Ongina, who will appear onstage at VA PrideFest this weekend! Small in stature and bursting with star power, RuPaul’s Drag Race standout Ongina will take the stage with pride at the 2019...
Trump's Secretary of Housing and Urban Development has been making anti-LGBTQ remarks to HUD staff on a regular basis, according to a Washington Post report. Secretary Ben Carson has been making vile, unprompted, transphobic remarks to Housing and Urban Development employees, some of whom were “shell-shocked” by the brain surgeon’s bigotry,...
As the only LGBTQ woman of color with a late-night show in 2019, Lilly Singh is kind of a big deal. Late-night television has long been plagued with the same old exhausting issue -- it's overflowing with bland cis straight white men telling their overworked, hacky jokes. While Stephen Colbert brings a dorky flair, it’s still mostly the same...
