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Virginia college students are running a thrift store for transgender and nonbinary people

Transgender people looking to change up their wardrobes are often met with financial barriers, but Dell Thrift and Pantry at the University of Lynchburg is working to change that.

Disgraced Homophobe Jerry Falwell Jr. Sues Liberty U for Defamation

Falwell, who resigned from the university amid sex scandals, claims it damaged his reputation.

House Candidate Gets Heat for Supporter's Racist, Anti-LGBTQ+ Video

The video, calling racial minorities "the devil" and LGBTQ+ people "queers," has become an issue in a Virginia GOP primary.

Jerry Falwell Jr.: I Agree With Trump's LGBT Platform '100 Percent'

One of the nation's leading antigay conversatives has applauded a recent speech from the Republican nominee.

Why I chose to be arrested

The codirector of the Equality Ride writes about her decision to be handcuffed and booked at the ride's second stop: "I chose to walk onto campus to tell gay and lesbian students at Regent University that the God of their faith does indeed claim them, even if their church does not."

The Fastest Woman in the World Is Leaving Her Haters Behind

Despite the trauma she’s endured, it took her becoming the fastest woman in the world after winning the women’s 100 meter at the track and field world championships in Budapest in August to renew a skeptical public’s faith in her.

The Reverend Mel White Remembers the Late Jerry Falwell

Soulforce cofounder Mel White knew two Jerry Falwells: the evangelical preacher who spewed hate from the pulpit and the family man who wasn't so bad once you got to know him.

The Reverend Jerry Falwell dead at 73

The Reverend Jerry Falwell, the TV evangelist who founded the Moral Majority and built the religious right into a mighty political force, died Tuesday shortly after being found unconscious in his office at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., a school executive said. He was 73.

LGBT activists challenge 'don't ask, don't tell' policy at West Point

The U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., planned to deny entry Wednesday to a busload of gay rights activists as they completed their cross-country tour of 20 conservative Christian and military colleges with a challenge to the "don't ask, don't tell" military policy they say keeps gay cadets closeted.

Queer youth to America: Get on the equality bus!

We join the Equality Ride in progress... Inspired by the '60s' Freedom Riders, 33 young LGBT activists on a bus are invading the nation's antigay colleges. Here riders tell their stories of inspiration, hope, and getting arrested in their quest to change America

Jerry Falwell Jr. to Get $10.5 Million in Severance From Liberty U

The well-known homophobe and Trump supporter won't be suffering after resigning amid scandals.

Dying at BYU

A symbolic die-in to honor the many gay Mormons who have committed suicide gets two dozen Equality Ride protesters arrested on the campus of Brigham Young University. It also sends an important message.

Evangelist hopes for a less-gay New Orleans

Evangelist Franklin Graham, son and designated successor to the Reverend Billy Graham, said Tuesday that Hurricane Katrina could lead to a spiritual rebirth of a sinful New Orleans, adding, however, that he doesn't believe the devastating storm was a punishment from God for what he sees as the city's ties to satanic worship and sexual perversion.

Jerry Falwell Jr. Defends Allowing Students Back at Liberty University

Many are expressing concern that the notoriously anti-LGBTQ school's move will contribute to the spread of COVID-19.

Young gay activists arrested at Falwell's university

More than 20 mostly college-age Soulforce activists, including Jacob Reitan (pictured), were arrested for trespassing Friday at Liberty University.

Twenty-one arrested at last stop on Equality Ride

Twenty-one gay rights activists--participants in the cross-country Equality Ride--were arrested Wednesday on the grounds of the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., after staging a protest against the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't ask" policy regarding gay service members.

Dialogue without judgment

The Equality Ride's visit to "Christ-centered" Lee University in Tennessee leaves this rider inspired. What LGBTQ students on antigay campuses need more than anything, she learns, is support for where they are right now, not snap judgments about how their lives or their school must change.

Invisible at Oral Roberts

A stop at the notoriously antigay university in Tulsa, Okla., results in a few arrests and some off-campus dialogue. But Oral Roberts did such a thorough job of closing itself off, this rider fears some local folks didn't even get a chance to make up their own minds.