For the third year running, the Richmond Animation Festival returns to The Byrd Theatre with its signature mix of experimental flair, international shorts, and creative community energy. What started as a modest gathering of animation lovers has quietly evolved into...
As if doctor visits didn't give us enough reason to worry as it is. The Trump administration is finalizing details on its plan to grant special religious "rights" to medical professionals who claim a moral objection to providing care to transgender patients, or women seeking an abortion, among others. The new rules would roll back Obama-era...
Max Smith started his leather-working business, Alehoof Leather Company, to bring affordable sex-positive leather items to LGBTQ people in rural areas. Now he's reaching the world through social media. With just a desk to work on and a dresser full of supplies, Max Smith’s bedroom is his workshop. All by hand, Smith cuts out designs from strips...
In three cases, the Supreme Court will rule on whether gay and trans people can be fired for their LGBTQ status -- and we'll learn just how conservative the Trump Supreme Court really is. In potentially troubling news out of Washington, the Supreme Court announced Monday that they will review three cases that concern the LGBTQ community's...
In Critiques For The Culture's first contribution to GayRVA, Taneasha White and Brooke Taylor begin their representation-focused coverage of Richmond-area theatre with a review of all four plays included in TheatreLAB's recent Women's Theatre Festival. Critiques for The Culture is a conversational podcast and radio show (on WRIR and WRWK) that...
When a teenage girl defended herself from boys in a high school bathroom, she was the one who got punished. So can we just go ahead and admit all these "trans bathroom bills" were a farce? Recently an Alaskan teenager had the audacity to do the unthinkable. She used the restroom, and she even did it during school hours like a human being. A group...
In this month's Amazon Trail, Lee Lynch tries, and mostly fails, to understand her wife's natural facility with machines and appliances. It’s a shame, the things they don’t teach us at Butch School. In the Femme Gadgets class, I learned the basics of eyelash brushes and powdering noses and hoop, stud, drop, climber, and jacket earrings. The femme...
The hip hop festival coming to Charlottesville throughout next week hopes to promote an inclusive view of hip hop with a Tuesday night showcase featuring LGBTQ artists. Charlottesville’s third annual Nine Pillars Hip Hop Cultural Fest is happening next week, and for the first time, it will feature an all-LGBTQ performer showcase. “We’re cutting...
Pete Buttigieg, the Democratic Party's first openly gay presidential candidate, has been pushing back against Vice President Pence's anti-gay agenda throughout his campaign. 2020 Democratic candidate Pete Buttigieg is responding to attacks from Vice President Mike Pence, who says the South Bend, Indiana mayor's belief that God makes...
Even though it gets less publicity now, Chick-Fil-A still gives lots of money to anti-gay groups. These hockey fans found a very public way to voice their displeasure. Between periods at a hockey game isn't the most likely place to find heartwarming events taking place; usually there's just a Zamboni ice-resurfacing machine uneventfully passing...
