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Beyond The Bar Scene: Searching For LGBTQ Spaces Outside the Night Life
If you’re LGBTQ in Richmond looking for explicitly queer spaces, your Friday night starts and ends at a gay club. The queer community doesn’t have the luxury of the default; while all Richmond spaces are inherently safe for the cis white straight population, the few queer spaces that the city has are clubs or bars. [...]
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Side By Side Creates New Program Offering Support to Incarcerated LGBTQ Youth (UPDATED)
Side by Side, formerly known as ROSMY, has been striving since their 1991 founding to ensure that LGBTQ youth of Virginia have a supportive community where they can be accepted as their true authentic selves. Their most recent effort at aiding the at-risk youth of Virginia sees them joining with partners Virginia Anti-Violence Project and [...]
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Diversity Richmond Seeks Worthy Grant Recipients To Aid the Local LGBTQ Community
Whether you’re checking out at Diversity Thrift or enjoying a night of drag bingo, you’re supporting the LGBTQ community more than you realize. Through their many fundraising efforts, Diversity Richmond has opened up their grant program for another year, continuing their mission to enrich and support the LGBTQ community. Through their grant program, in existence [...]
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Side By Side’s Glitter Glam Jam Brings a Groovy Twist to Fundraising
Side By Side is putting the fun in fundraising this weekend with their first Glitter Glam Jam dance marathon. This year the organization is doing something different from their traditional annual charity event, Run for ROSMY; they’re trading in their sneakers for dancing shoes. “We decided to spice it up and try something different, and [...]
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PRIDE GUIDE FALL 2017: Side By Side: New Name Helps LGBTQ Youth Organization Face New Challenges
You undoubtedly know Side By Side. However, you may know them under another name. The group originally known as ROSMY, Richmond Organization for Sexual Minority Youth, started back in 1991, and has been carrying on their mission to support and advocate for LGBTQ youth in the Central Virginia area ever since. Those of us grew [...]
