We knew this attack was coming. That does not make it hurt any less or our outrage any less powerful. So how do we understand what is happening and respond?
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Starting on day one, the new administration signed executive orders that strip rights, deny medical care, and put transgender people in harm’s way.
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Bailar leads us to a deeper understanding of gender as he shares his personal experience with raw honesty and vulnerability.
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Forty years ago today, June 2 of 1982, my oldest sibling boarded a bus in Alabama, embarking on a journey to San Francisco, California. Martine had told Mom that there were “people in San Francisco who could help.”
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Vulnerable youth within our LGBTQ community here in Virginia are under attack. They are being targeted by the Alliance Defending Freedom, an organization assisting the Hanover School Board in its effort to undermine legislation Virginia passed in 2020 which provides for the rights of LGBTQ individuals in schools.
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In April 1983 my experience of grief became intertwined with John 11. I propose a sixth stage of the grief process. All six stages can be found within the narrative of John 11.
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On March 31, 2021, Virginia became the 12th state to ban the “panic defense.” This legislative victory is a step toward accountability in cases of anti-LGBTQ+ violence.
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My column about the Equality Act is excerpted from the March 28, 2021 issue of The Richmond Times-Dispatch.
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