For the first time in over a generation, Democrats control both houses of the General Assembly, and advocates are working to ensure that this has positive results for Virginia's LGBTQ community. It hasn't been all that many years since the dawn of a new General...
Equality Virginia's new "Ask A Trans Person" panel series seeks to raise trans visibility and highlight transgender Virginians' need for civil rights protections. 87 percent of Americans say they know a gay person, but only 16 percent report knowing a a trans person,...
GayRVA Editor-In-Chief Marilyn Drew Necci has an extensive wish list for our new Democratic General Assembly, one that starts with LGBTQ civil rights and goes a lot farther from there. Well, it's finally happened -- no matter how your mom or your Trump-loving former...
The same judge who ruled the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional has now ruled that religious freedom is more important than transgender people receiving medically necessary health care. A U.S. District Court judge in Texas has overturned the protections written into...
With control of the General Assembly at stake, Republican incumbents Kirk Cox and Glen Sturtevant faced their Democratic challengers, Ghazala Hashmi and Sheila Bynum-Coleman, in contentious debates last week. Republican incumbents fighting to keep seats in the 10th...