Virginia music venues and events have grown in number and size over the last few years. With all that activity, there is one event which has been a solid base and simultaneously expanded its genres, talent and diversity in music, dance, theater and artistic expression ⎯ the VA Arts Festival in…
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Use this guide to Virginia businesses owned by LGBTQ+ members of the community to support local boutiques, restaurants, and more! *This list is not meant to be comprehensive but to highlight a few of the businesses that help make Virginia a beautiful and inclusive place. Love Local:…
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Virginia’s history is rich with Queer people in all aspects of life and culture, crossing gender, racial, economic and geographic barriers. Great examples of this are LGBTQ+ history walking tours, notable in Norfolk, Roanoke and Richmond. Each year, so many Virginians find and share more, further…
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It’s an understatement that the Queer community is not a monolith. The intersection of so many people of different origins, geographies, identities and cultures makes it challenging to really know all the members of what many in the LGBTQAI+ community consider ‘our family.’ Depending on one’s daily…
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Virginia’s PRIDE season spans most of the year — MARCH through NOVEMBER — with so many pride events we’ve had to extend and expand our statewide calendar beyond June’s recognized Pride Month . We have several, large-scale festivals, week-long socials, medium-sized weekend shows and smaller, day-long…
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Film festivals have a rich history in Virginia. One of the oldest and most well-known festivals is the Virginia Film Festival, which was founded in 1988 by the University of Virginia. Over the years, the festival has featured a diverse range of films, including international films, documentaries…
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For the sixth year, Black Pride RVA is holding their three-day festival of events in Richmond, VA. Director Luise ‘Cheezi’ Farmer has been there since the beginning, helping to create, sustain and grow its efforts and impact. A long-time advocate for the LGBTQ+ community in Richmond, Virginia, A…
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Virginia’s PRIDE season spans most of the year — MARCH through NOVEMBER — with so many pride events we’ve had to extend and expand our statewide calendar beyond June’s recognized Pride Month . We have several, large-scale festivals, week-long socials, medium-sized weekend shows and smaller, day-long…
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New performance recalls Queer history and experiences BRIEF HISTORY OF OPERA In Florence, Italy around the year 1600, a group of musicians, writers, and intellectuals gathered together to conduct an experiment: Could they recreate Ancient Greek drama? As it turned out, they did not recreate Greek…
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Created in 1969, the Commonwealth’s “Virginia is For Lovers” tourism slogan was created, and is now one of the most beloved and iconic travel slogans in the world and inducted into the Madison Avenue Advertising Walk of Fame in 2009. While it has meant a lot of different things to a lot of…
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