Virginia

LOUISA, Va. - A Virginia transgender man on Monday was granted a name change after having it denied earlier this year by a judge who asked for medical documents proving he was transitioning, contrary to state law. [ Read more → ]

RICHMOND, Va. -- The Democratic party's candidates for Virginia's top elected offices had little to offer on Wednesday on the issue of LGBT rights, despite facing a trio of vehemently anti-gay Republican opponents. [ Read more → ]

CHESAPEAKE, Va. — Virginia’s GOP nominee for Lt. Governor appeared Thursday on Janet Mefferd’s radio program to defend his claims that gays and lesbians are “very sick people.” [ Read more → ]

RICHMOND, Va. -- Delegates at Virginia's GOP Convention on Saturday nominated a trio of candidates with a long history of marginalizing and demonizing LGBT people in hopes they will become their state's next leaders. [ Read more → ]

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell plans to announce a new campaign Friday that aims to adopt 1,000 Virginia children out of foster care, but equality groups around the state are calling foul on the new initiative, which comes one year after McDonnell signed legislation allowing adoption agencies to discriminate against gay parents. [ Read more → ]

A new poll finds that a majority of voters in Virgina now support marriage equality for gay and lesbian couples, reflecting a significant shift in public opinion over the last two years. [ Read more → ]

A transgender man from Louisa County, Virginia, has been denied a name change by Circuit Judge who, contrary to current Virginia law, said medical documentation was required for legal name changes. [ Read more → ]

RICHMOND -- The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has denied a request by the Virginia Attorney General's office to appeal to a March decision that struck down state sodomy laws. [ Read more → ]

RICHMOND, Va. -- Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has filed a petition with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, challenging a recent court ruling that struck down Virginia's sodomy laws. [ Read more → ]

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. -- As the nation's highest court deliberates two critical cases that will set legal precedence for same-sex couples in the U.S., across the river in Virginia a new poll shows little support for marriage equality. [ Read more → ]

RICHMOND, Va. -- A long-standing “Crimes against Nature” law, which criminalized anal and oral sex in Virgina, has been found unconstitutional by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. [ Read more → ]

RICHMOND, Va. -- A Virginia man has been found guilty of defrauding investors through a project purportedly developing a treatment for the virus that causes AIDS. [ Read more → ]

RICHMOND, Va. -- Tracy Thorne-Begland, a former U.S. Navy fighter pilot and Deputy Commonwealth's attorney for the city of Richmond, was sworn in Friday as Virginia's first openly gay judge. [ Read more → ]

CENTREVILLE, Va. -- A California transgender woman alleges that, while on a business trip last year, she was asked to leave a suburban Washington D.C. because the manager told her "she looked different." [ Read more → ]

RICHMOND, Va. -- About 50 people gathered in front of the John Marshall Court House Building in Richmond, Va. on Thursday for an annual Valentine's Day demonstration to support same-sex marriage. [ Read more → ]

LEESBURG, Va. -- A special prosecutor appointed to look into allegations of official misconduct by Loudoun County, Va., Supervisor Eugene Delgaudio (R-Sterling, Va.) has begun impaneling a grand jury to review evidence as part of an ongoing criminal investigation. [ Read more → ]

RICHMOND, Va. – A measure to protect Virginia’s LGBT state employees from workplace discrimination, was killed by a state House subcommittee on Tuesday. [ Read more → ]

RICHMOND, Va. -- A Virginia House measure that would allow student clubs at Virginia's public colleges and universities to discriminate in their policies and membership was passed the state Senate Monday on a 21-18 vote. [ Read more → ]

RICHMOND, Va. -- A bill that would allow publicly funded college groups to discriminate in their policies and membership has been approved in the Virginia state Senate. [ Read more → ]

RICHMOND, Va. -- The Virginia House of Delegates on Thursday voted in favor of a bill that would allow a religious or political university student group to participate in what could be defined as discriminatory practices, and still require the school to provide funding and access to campus facilities. [ Read more → ]