BY JILL GLEESON
Diversity Richmond, LGBTQ organization
Richmond isn’t foolin’ around. This Virginia city of some 220,000—about 1.2 million in the metro area—has recently embraced the LGBT community more warmly than just about anyplace else in the South. Already home to a crackerjack Pride Fest (vapride.com) held in September, when the weather has cooled down and college students from schools like Virginia Commonwealth University are back in town, Richmond began pushing hard for gay tourist dollars back in 2014. That’s when Richmond Region Tourism and its community partners debuted OutRVA (richmondisout.com), an initiative designed to welcome LGBT travelers with open arms into the former capital of the Confederacy.
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About Curve
This is our Love issue, and inside we celebrate many formal
expressions of love and commitment from diverse couples in
different locations. We also remind readers to safeguard their
health—sexual, psychological, and physical—which still needs
to be maintained even within a committed relationship. Love
isn’t as random as Cupid’s arrow. Getting it and keeping it need
to be worked at. Decades of activism and visibility gave us the
right to formalize our romantic unions—and vigilance will give
us the right keep it.