There’s a good chance you’ve seen the photos: packs of people in flowing kaftans, chunky jewelry, red wigs, and not a single damn given. These are the Mrs. Roper Romps—a growing national trend where folks gather to honor Helen Roper, the brilliantly nosy landlady...
Every Monday throughout June, The Byrd Theatre celebrated Pride Month with #MonGays, a series spotlighting the LGBTQ community. This week, Black Pride RVA launches Black Pride Month with their selection of Pariah. What do you do when your family doesn’t understand part of who you are? Even worse, what do you do if they disapprove? This is the...
Last night, GayRVA joined VA Pride and the Richmond Flying Squirrels for the first-ever Pride Night at the Diamond. Richmond rose to the occasion, too, packing the Diamond with delighted fans ready to cheer for the home team and show their Pride! GayRVA was on the scene, handing out copies of our brand-new Summer Pride Guide, produced in...
Days before the nation's 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots and the start of WorldPride in New York, a new study is measuring American attitudes toward LGBTQ people - and the results aren't stellar. On Monday, GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer media advocacy organization, announced the findings of its...
The Richmond Flying Squirrels and VA Pride are presenting the first-ever Pride Night at The Diamond this Thursday. Hooray! After a year and a half or so of rainy weather, it's been a real refresher to get the warm, sunny weather we've been experiencing this Pride Month. And there's nothing better for a sunny summer evening than enjoying a ball...
At Oregon's Clackamas United Church of Christ, Pastor Adam Ericksen preaches inclusion, courage, and love -- an example for allies everywhere. Pride Month is traditionally supposed to be a very happy, powerful, celebratory time across the nation for members of the LGBTQ community. Despite that news continues to race across our television screens...
Focusing on the spiritual journey of David Bazan, aka Pedro The Lion, Strange Negotiations comes to the Grace Street Theater tomorrow night. The writers behind Critiques For The Culture are intrigued. Strange Negotiations is a new music documentary directed by award-winning filmmaker Brandon Vedder, and it is coming to Richmond this week. This...
Every Monday throughout June, The Byrd Theatre will celebrate Pride Month with #MonGays, a series spotlighting the LGBTQ community. This week, a film that should need no introduction: Paris Is Burning. Do you wish Blanca Evangelista were your mother? Has Lil Papi become your latest crush? Is Pray Tell the person you aspire to be? If you answered...
This Sunday, VA Pride and Hardywood will join together for their fourth annual celebration of Love On Tap. This signature Pride Month event began to celebrate the passage of marriage equality in Virginia and throughout the country, and continues as an anniversary celebration for several milestones in the LGBTQ civil rights struggle, from the...
He thinks transgender people are "delusional." He sees the fight for LGBTQ equality as a "clash of absolutes" where "religious liberty and sexual liberty" are forever at odds. He says the Equality Act, which would add sexual orientation and gender identity to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, is "weaponizing" the Supreme...
