4+ week, 1+ day ago   (321+ words) The two major hospital systems in Virginia where trans teens could get gender-affirming care had already folded last year under pressure from the Trump administration, so this week’s news that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has moved to end…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (416+ words) Remember how the Augusta County Board of Supervisors shut down a scheduled Pride Day event at the Augusta County Library last year? The Library Board of Trustees did the dirty work for the MAGAs to pre-cancel a 2027 Pride Day event…...

2+ mon, 20+ hour ago   (371+ words) AnhThu Nguyen will be stepping down from her position as executive director of the Shenandoah LGBTQ Center this fall. The news was made public on Friday by Dr. Paige Reed, the chair of the center’s board of directors, which was…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago   (679+ words) Ben Cline, trying to raise money for his Sixth District re-election campaign, went to the big news, in his mind, in the world of sports from last week: the “huge victory for women’s sports” from the Trump Court. “The Supreme…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (452+ words) The Trump Court was asked to weigh in on laws and regulations in 29 states, including Virginia, banning trans males from competing in youth and college sports, affecting the 10 trans athletes among the 530,000 athletes on NCAA-sanctioned teams at the college level,…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (495+ words) The comments on the socials about the appearance of Heidi N Closet, a drag queen best known from “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” as the “guest splasher” in the Bird Bath section at Camden Yards for the Baltimore Orioles annual Pride Night…...

2+ mon, 4+ week ago   (780+ words) A veritable who’s that? of San Francisco Giants pitchers made homophobic bigots of themselves in the 5-1 loss to the Chicago Cubs on Friday night, on Pride Night at Oracle Park, which, and this is important, we’re talking about this particular…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (541+ words) It’s already the settled law of the land, marriage equality, but Virginia still has embedded in its state constitution, thanks to the politics of 2006, a provision narrowly defining marriage as being between one man and one woman. The push for…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago   (679+ words) The MAGA pastor/not a pastor who wanted to inject Fox News narratives into bathrooms at Waynesboro High School got his wish Tuesday night. A long line of community members showed up, signed up and spoke out on both sides…...

4+ mon, 3+ day ago   (882+ words) What frustrates me the most about the holy war being waged by a local MAGA pastor over supposed trans kids in school bathrooms is, the guy is doing what the billionaires who don’t want us to see what they’re doing…...