Babe's of Carytown, the second oldest lesbian bar in the country, is a spot for everyone. However, when it opened as a steakhouse in 1978, it was not originally intended to be an LGBTQ+-centric establishment. The current owner, Vicky Hester, says that Babe’s became a...
Westboro Baptist Church is planning to visit Virginia Commonwealth University and the Virginia State Capitol on March 11, though it’s unclear how much access the group will have to university grounds. The Westboro Baptist Church is infamous for its posters that feature slurs against the LGBTQ community and its practice of picketing soldiers’...
Once again, legislators introduced bills to protect LGBTQ Virginians from discrimination. And once again, the House Of Delegates never even voted on them. In Virginia, it is still legal to discriminate against LGBTQ persons in the workplace and in housing, after two bills addressing these issues were killed in this year's General Assembly session...
Out of more than 660,000 restaurants in the U.S., fewer than 7 percent are led by female chefs. The food and restaurant business has an inherent bias against women, and years of discrimination in the industry have made it difficult for them to climb to the top of the ladder. But despite the odds, women are picking themselves up, as they always...
*This article comes to us from our sister site, GayRVA.com. It originally appeared in RVA Mag #35, on the streets now at all your favorite spots. March 1993. People were celebrating St. Patrick's Day and the coming of passover. Buick LeSabres were stuffed with families in spring photo-op attire. But for three Norfolk friends in particular --...
This article originally appeared at GayRVA.com. Good afternoon, pro-lifers of Greater Virginia! I hope you’re sitting, because we need to talk. You claim to be about the children, about their lives and safety. Do you just mean while they’re in utero? Or do you still care about them once they’re out of the womb -- but only if they’re straight?...
*This article originally appeared on GayRVA.com Lip-syncing across the stage, 22 year-old Fredericksburg native Shanita Quit reaches for dollar bills from people’s hands as they cheer her on at Richmond’s newest drag venue -- New York Deli in Carytown. Relying heavily on visuals, Quit is dressed in her self-developed style, which she refers to as...
*This article was originally published on GayRVA. It comes from GayRVA's Fall 2018 Pride Guide, released in conjunction with 2018′s VA PrideFest. Grab a copy of the print edition at your favorite shops around town, or check out the digital version here. Though the storefront is innocuous enough, it says all you need to know:...
For trans activists in the UK, anti-trans feminists have become the biggest stumbling block in their civil rights struggle. Is the US headed for a similar fate? Here in the United States, we generally think of anti-trans hatred as the province of the right wing. From Donald Trump’s ongoing attempts to unilaterally ban transgender military troops...
“You don’t see a lot of gay people in tattoo shops, especially transgender people, so it was a big deal to me,” said Abel Killian, leaning on a stool in Lucky 13 Tattoo’s back office space. He stands out in a shop filled with burly dudes with massive beards – he’s short and his midnight-black mop top is stuffed under a red Phillies baseball cap....
