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11/07/2025

🕯️ Transgender Days of Remembrance & Resilience

Join us for three days of reflection, community, and connection as we honor the lives of transgender individuals we’ve lost — and celebrate the resilience that carries us forward. 💜

🗓️ Nov. 20–22, 2025
✨ Memorial & Panel • Line Dancing & Community • Homegoing Service

Each event offers space to remember, to heal, and to stand together in love and solidarity.



📍 Details in flyer
💻 Learn more or RSVP on Facebook:
➡️ Memorial & Panel: facebook.com/events/1317963956306008

➡️ Line Dancing & Community: facebook.com/events/1486763709073086

➡️ Homegoing Service: facebook.com/events/827226390007290

11/06/2025

“When we moved into this community four years ago, we came, pulled up our boots, and got right to work, providing a safe space, providing a service, providing something that we thought this community needed and wanted. None of this is ever going to stop us from what we’re doing, but if you are the person who did this, understand this: it is disgusting, and we do not tolerate any type of act like this, anything at all.”

“It does not appear to be an accident,” Kevin Graham told The Advocate. “You look up and down the roadway, and everywhere else is completely clear. The trash is only at our entrance.”

11/05/2025

In a sweeping rebuke of President Donald Trump and Republicans’ fear-based politics, Democrats secured commanding victories across the country Tuesday night, from Virginia, New York, and Pennsylvania to California and even Mississippi and Georgia, dismantling a campaign season steeped in anti-trans rhetoric and division. The results sent a resounding message: weaponizing prejudice no longer wins elections.

Across the country, voters chose inclusion, empathy, and competence over cruelty and division.

11/05/2025

Across the United States, governors and state legislatures play a critical role in shaping how veterans access the care, benefits, and dignity they’ve earned.

Serving All Who Served marks the launch of the Transgender Veterans Toolkit—a practical, state-focused resource from the Center for American Progress and Out in National Security that equips policymakers to advance inclusion, improve service delivery, and strengthen institutional trust.

The toolkit focuses on healthcare, employment, and housing policy, where small, targeted state actions can deliver measurable results within 90 days. Every recommendation is achievable without new legislation, and based on tested models already working in select states.

This virtual event brings together senior leaders in military and veterans policy to highlight state-level innovation and actionable steps toward ensuring that every veteran is recognized and supported in full.

RSVP for this virtual event at the link below.

 Across the United States, governors and state legislatures play a critical role in shaping how veterans access the care, benefits, and dignity they’ve earned.Serving All Who Served marks the launch of the Transgender Veterans Toolkit—a practical, state-focused resource from the Center for Amer...

11/03/2025

Who else is hyped for Nationals next year?
Wanna be involved in making it the BEST ever?

11/03/2025

Tomorrow is Election Day and if you have not yet voted it's vital that you do so with so much on the line as illustrated by the news below. This sort of attack is going to continue to happen, and the only way Virginians can counter them is to vote for Jay Jones for Attorney General and Abigail Spanberger for Governor.

Advocates say the new policy is intended to "make life more difficult for those who Donald Trump dislikes."

10/31/2025

Congrats Cbelle!

Meet Christabelle “Cbelle” Fernandez, LGBT Life Center’s new Director of Development.

10/30/2025

“The department will publish a rule tomorrow in the Federal Register that would allow the Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, to disqualify government and nonprofit employers that do not align the Trump administration’s agenda from participating in the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program.”

Trump's Department of Education is making workers of LGBTQ+ nonprofits ineligible for student loan forgiveness.

10/29/2025

The Texas Supreme Court quietly made a tweak to the state rules on judicial conduct that could make it harder for gay couples to marry.

“It is not a violation of these canons for a judge to publicly refrain from performing a wedding ceremony based upon a sincerely held religious belief,” the Texas Supreme Court ruled.

10/29/2025

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The U.S. Virgin Islands just made history, becoming the first U.S. territory to let trans and intersex residents change their gender markers. This is more than paperwork. it’s recognition, safety, and respect.

10/27/2025

The Hampton VA is at it again. Employees say they were warned during the week of October 13 that they could be fired or disciplined for wearing or displaying rainbow-themed items.

“Anything rainbow like lanyards can get us fired on the spot,” one employee told The Advocate.

10/27/2025

“Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle‑Sears donated thousands of dollars to a far-right Christian organization that has described in vitro fertilization as “child trafficking.””

The revelation comes less than two weeks before voters in the state pick their next governor.