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Pridefest planning is progressing for Diversity Richmond and Virginia Pride, which have recently merged together. The merger will help expand the organization’s statewide presence and fundraising ability, and amplify resources to support Virginia’s LGBTQ community. 
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An annual pledge to diversity and inclusion is taking place in Richmond this month with the raising of the Juneteenth and LGBT Pride flags in the city.
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After years of researching plants, Aaron McIntosh saw a metaphor in kudzu. Like the invasive vine, gay people across the South have learned to thrive in inhospitable environments.
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Richmond is welcoming, quirky, extraordinarily creative and diverse. Here's how writer April Stamm spent 48 hours.
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Despite how you’d imagine an Irish Catholic upbringing might influence Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s views on LGBTQ individuals, the outgoing governor says he was alway
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Diversity Richmond is running an updated version of its “We are all born to love” billboard. After a Charlottesville white supremacist protest ended in the death of a counterprotester and two state police officers, the president of Diversity Richmond, Bill Harrison, said he was tired of seeing so much hate. “The billboard was originally produced because of an anti-gay message, and I think our response is to what’s going on in America now,” he says. “We were born to love, not hate.” Via CenterLink LGBT
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The charm and hospitality of the South are legendary: broad tables with rich food, stately colonial architecture, soft beds with mahogany bedframes. If you’re not from the South, you might have a moment’s hesitation and wonder, does the same hospitality apply to queer and trans visitors? The good news is that certain Southern cities never …
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In the photo, Ella Higgins-Redmond smiles from ear to ear. Her adoptive father, Tom Higgins, pushes her stroller, looking down at her as though she's the only baby in the world. Her other adoptive father, Higgins' husband Bernard Redmond, helps push with a smile just as big as his daughter's. Via CenterLink LGBT
Matt Skallerud's insight:
In the picture the family looks like any other, and that's the point. The photos illustrating love and what it means to be a family were part of a recent one-night exhibit at Work Release in Norfolk hosted by the LGBT Center of Hampton Roads. Andrew W. Roberts, the center’s marketing and event manager, said they're the center of a stigma reduction campaign that looks to raise awareness of LGBT families in coastal Virginia.
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December 1, 2016 – September 4, 2017: This exhibition questions the traditional definition of a family through portraits of LGBT families in the Richmond region. Presented in collaboration with Richmond Region Tourism’s OutRVA campaign and photographer Michael Simon.
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SUMMARY: Luise "Cheezi" Farmer is an honoree in the 2020 RTD Person of the Year program.
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To a background salsa and merengue, Paraguay native Mark Loewen said he celebrates being Hispanic, gay and a dad — a combination he says is rare in Richmond.
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It’s not so often that complex and pointed stage drama requires you to suspend your belief rather than your disbelief.
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We had the unique pleasure of having two of our LGBT influencers, Ty Autry and John-David Brown, attend this year’s Fire, Flour & Fork culinary event in Richmond, Virginia earlier this mo…
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The festival raises money for college scholarships for LGBTQ students in the state.
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Gay rights is not as common in the south, but luckily big cities like Richmond, VA choose the progressive path. Thanks to https://www.visitrichmondva.com
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If you're concerned about transgender bathroom policies in public schools, you should probably keep an eye on this local Virginia race.
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When someone talks about street art and graffiti, many probably think of big names like Banksy and Basquiat, or of the great metropolises like London, New York, Sao Paulo and Berlin. In fact, graffiti is
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