Yesterday, more than a thousand Richmonders took to Monument Avenue as part of the nationwide Good Trouble Lives On demonstration, organized by 50501 Virginia and local partners. The peaceful action stretched from Lombardy Street to Willow Lawn Drive,...
At Mamma'Zu over the weekend, supporters unveiled a monument to Dirtwoman's legacy at a dinner to benefit the Massey Cancer Center. We all remember Dirtwoman: a bastion of Richmond’s LGBTQ community, larger than life, sometimes difficult, often cheerful, and always unforgettable. Now the memory of the man born Donnie Corker will be preserved for...
The Virginia Board of Psychology has issued a letter of guidance condemning the practice of conversion therapy; advocates hope this will spell the end of this damaging process being practiced on minors in the Commonwealth. The Virginia Board of Psychology has issued a letter of guidance stating that conversion therapy for minors should be...
In this month's Amazon Trail, Lee Lynch talks about the importance of recognizing and encouraging literature that goes beyond token representation to truly document LGBTQ lives. It’s nice that some non-gay writers include us in their stories. I’m thinking of Lawrence Block’s Matt Scudder detective novels, in which he has an amusing lesbian friend...
*This article originally appeared in RVA Mag #36, on the streets now at all your favorite spots. For years, the cultural and historical notions of Appalachia have been dictated by white, straight narratives. The understanding of the mountainous, rural region’s inhabitants as ignorant “hillbillies,” incapable of independent thought, drove the...
An addictive podcast created by The State alumni Kevin Allison, Risk! encourages both ordinary and famous people to tell their deepest secrets live on stage. There is virtually nothing that has not been done or covered by a podcast at this point -- from cooking to serial killer exposes. Even Levar Burton’s Reading Rainbow got in on the act....
Her 7-year-old daughter knows that homosexuality exists now, and she is not happy about it. In suburban Hanover County, the mother of a second-grader is "outraged" after learning that a book about the LGBTQ civil rights struggle was read to her daughter in class. Yesterday, WRIC's "8 Investigates" series reported on a complaint from Culley...
The resolution is non-binding, which makes it more symbolic than anything, but that's something... right? One can't help but feel that we'll be hearing about the trans military ban in some form or another for the rest of the Trump presidency -- even if said presidency extends all the way until 2024 (perish the thought). Last month, we heard that...
"We follow the law as this body has defined," DeVos claims – despite having tossed out hundreds of discrimination complaints without investigating them. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is in hot water after being grilled on Wednesday for her budget that totally eliminates funding for the Special Olympics. But there's another issue that was yet...
For LGBTQ journalists like us here at GayRVA, Broadly's new Gender Spectrum Collection will provide an essential resource. I never thought I'd see the day when I'd consider a library of stock photos to be a total game-changer. But then, it never would have occurred to me to do what Broadly did this week. Broadly's new Gender Spectrum Collection...
