Equality Virginia's Vee Lamneck talks to GayRVA about Title VII, The Virginia Values Act, and the connections between LGBTQ and BLM. On June 15th, the U.S. Supreme Court reviewed three historic cases and came to one monumental decision: that Title VII of The Civil...
Head of Right Wing Group That Spent Millions on Gorsuch Mocked for Fury Over LGBTQ Rights Opinion
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, a Trump appointee, wrote the majority opinion protecting LGBTQ rights in the workplace, and the head of a right-wing group that fought to have him appointed is very very angry. The head of a far right wing activist group is furious...
Anti-Gay ‘Hookers For Jesus’ Group Gets Major DOJ Grant
The Department of Justice gave a grant from their anti-human trafficking program to Hookers For Jesus, which restricts what occupants of their safe houses are allowed to read and labels homosexuality immoral. According to an exclusive report from Reuters, internal...
Hundreds of LGBTQ Advocates Lobby Lawmakers for Protections
Equality Virginia and the Commonwealth's LGBTQ community continue to lobby state legislators for important LGBTQ protections. Now that Democrats control the General Assembly, they're having some success. The day after hundreds lobbied lawmakers on behalf of LGBTQ...
White House Livestreams Pastor Saying ‘Demonic Spirit’ Causes Homosexuality
The anti-LGBTQ remarks occurred during a livestream of an event where Vice President Mike Pence spoke at a Memphis church. The White House's YouTube channel broadcast the whole thing. Vice President Mike Pence traveled to Tennessee this weekend to deliver a speech at...
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