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New Coalition Calls on Lawmakers to Support LGBTQ Equal Rights

With the new Virginia Values Coalition, Equality Virginia has created a statewide advocacy group to demand laws protecting LGBTQ rights in Virginia. Bianca Rey, chair of Capital Trans Pride, understands firsthand the struggle to live with equal protections. The...

There For Those In Need

Captain Michael Bender, who became Richmond Police Department's new LGBTQ Liaison in August, wants to ensure that Richmond's LGBTQ community feels welcomed and included throughout the city. In June 1969, police raided Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City,...

‘The Colour Purple” Actress Loses Role for Homophobic Comments

British actress Seyi Omooba isn't apologizing but doubling down, suing for "discrimination" because people don't want to hire her now that they know about her intolerant beliefs. Oops. Sometimes we really, really can have nice things, y’all. Especially when it is in...

Virginia Is For Queer Lovers, Too!

Our 2019 Fall Pride Guide, in collaboration with VA Pride, is out now! In this article from the magazine, Outwire 757 co-founder Eric Hause gives us a guide to planning your all-day, all-gay getaway with Virginia Tourism's LGBT Travel Program! Fifty years ago, a...

Pride Was “Hot & Sweaty,” But Not In the Way I Imagined

"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...

Critiques For The Culture: Falsettos

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...

Resolutions And Flags Aren’t Enough – LGBTQ Advocates Want Laws

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...

This Summer, Doing It RVA Wants To Make Sure You Get Tested

Doing It RVA is working to ensure that Richmond stays healthy in the sack by providing free HIV and STI testing. Usually when someone says something is “free,” there's some sort of stipulation or drawback -- but Doing It RVA is the real deal when it comes to free HIV and STI (Sexually Transmitted Infection) testing.  Doing It RVA is a coalition...

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Planning A Trip? Hampton Roads Is Your LGBTQ Destination.

Our 2019 Summer Pride Guide, in collaboration with VA Pride, is out now! Here’s one of our articles from that magazine, in which Outwire 757's Eric Hause gives us a guide to the perfect LGBTQ vacation in Hampton Roads. When you think about LGBTQ-friendly vacation destinations, there’s no doubt that big cities come to mind: San Francisco and New...

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Critiques For The Culture: Strange Negotiations

In Critiques For The Culture’s latest contribution to GayRVA, Taneasha White and Brooke Taylor examine the documentary Strange Negotiations, which tells the story of singer-songwriter David Bazan's spiritual journey. Critiques for The Culture is a conversational podcast and radio show (on WRIR and WRWK) that focuses on the socio-political...

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Rights Activists Alarmed as Pompeo Installs Anti-Gay Anti-Abortion Activist to Head New Commission on “Natural Law”

Pompeo hopes to redefine the entire concept of "human rights," and to do so he's hired a woman with a decades-long record of anti-LGBTQ activism. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday announced the formation of a new commission that will take a "fresh look" at human rights through the lens of "natural law," and civil and human rights...

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Won’t You Be My Gaybor?

Our 2019 Summer Pride Guide, in collaboration with VA Pride, is out now! Here’s one of our articles from that magazine, in which Wyatt Gordon examines Richmond's lack of a gayborhood, and what that means for our city. If I told you I went to a bar in the Castro, would you even need me to say I was in San Francisco? When you watch something set in...

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