LGBTQ+

For many years, the American Psychiatric Association has denounced the practice of conversion therapy – health professionals licensed by the state attempting to turn gay people straight. Now, the Virginia Department of Health Professions is denying a request to ban the practice.

Last year the General Assembly created a board to advise the governor on policies affecting LGBTQ plus Virginians. Now, there are signs of friction between the board and the new Republican administration.

With Caitlin Jenner running for governor in California and others moving into prominent, public roles, you might think many of the hurdles facing…

Lawmakers are considering a bill that would create new protections for people based on sexual orientation or gender identity.The shocking murder of…

When Bowen Yang became the first Asian-American performer on Saturday Night Live last year, he’d already been recognized for his standup work, and was a…

Governor Ralph Northam has signed a bill making it illegal to practice so-called "conversion therapy” on children in Virginia.The practice of conversion…

Virginia lawmakers have passed comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation that advocates say makes the state the first in the South to enact such…

Virginia Democrats have long pushed to expand the state’s nondiscrimination laws to include protections for gay and transgender people. They think this is…

As 2020 draws closer, the debate in Washington about the Census is heating up.At the tail end of the Obama administration, a handful of federal agencies…

Hundreds of members, and allies, of the transgender community will be in Richmond this weekend for one of the only trans conferences on the east coast.…