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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...
In this month's Amazon Trail, Lee Lynch begins Pride month by celebrating the long-overdue apology for Stonewall, then attempts to deal with a home-repair emergency. The Police Commissioner of the City of New York apologized on June 6, 2019 for the most publicized raid of a gay bar in the history of the world. Thank you, sir, but fifty years...
The "Fox & Friends" crew celebrated Texas Governor Greg Abbott's signing of the anti-LGBTQ "Save Chick-fil-A" bill into law by eating and praising the chicken fast food, and defending the Christian retailer by misrepresenting opposition to the bill and to the company. The "Save Chick-fil-A" law now makes it illegal in Texas for the government...
