The bill, introduced by Del. Mark Levine, would have protected citizens against bias-based profiling on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, as well as requiring police to provide aid to the injured and report misconduct by other officers. A Senate...
Sen. Ghazala Hashmi's bill to expand hate crimes to include crimes based on perception -- which would have had the effect of protecting gender expression, not covered under current hate crime statutes -- failed in the Virginia state Senate after backlash from both...
Joined by LGBTQ rights advocates from around Virginia, Governor Northam held a ceremonial signing of the Virginia Values Act last Thursday at Diversity Richmond. Last Thursday, Governor Ralph Northam got together with LGBTQ advocates from all over Virginia to host a...
Last weekend's Stonewall Rising march was an act of solidarity by Richmond's LGBTQ community, which took this opportunity during Pride Month to march in support of Black lives. On Saturday, June 27, Richmond's LGBTQ community commemorated the last weekend of Pride...
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...