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May 16, 2010
Meet the winners of the 2010 Metro Weekly Next Generation Awards: Hyacinth Alvaran, Andrew Barnett, Harjant Gill and Amy Loudermilk. The annual Next Generation Awards honor LGBT activists, artists and leaders under the age of 30. Honorees were nominated by members of the community and selected by a committee of distinguished Washington-area LGBT leaders. The second annual Next Generation Award honorees were profiled in the April 29 edition of Metro Weekly.
By John Riley on October 22, 2026 @JRileyMW
The Farmville Public Library logo does not resemble a traditional rainbow. It depicts an open book with multicolored pages and a spine in shades of teal, blue, magenta, lime green, orange, purple, and yellow, arranged in no particular order.
But three residents reportedly objected to the logo over concerns that its colors could be interpreted as a show of support for the LGBTQ community. After receiving their complaints, a town commissioner asked the town manager to remove the 14-year-old logo.
The logo was subsequently removed without public debate or discussion, surprising other local officials, including Farmville Mayor Alex Joyner.
By John Riley on October 7, 2026 @JRileyMW
Policies related to gender identity rank lowest among the issues American voters consider important to their vote in next month's midterm elections, according to a CNN poll.
Conducted by independent research company SSRS, the poll surveyed 1,206 U.S. adults online and by telephone September 16-17, including 867 registered voters. The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 3.5 percentage points for all adults and 4.1 points for registered voters.
The poll asked respondents to assess President Donald Trump's job performance and his handling of specific issues. Registered voters were also asked which party's congressional candidates they favored and which issues would influence their vote.
By John Riley on October 7, 2026 @JRileyMW
President Donald Trump used an anti-transgender slur in an October 5 social media post attacking Annie Andrews, South Carolina's Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate seat previously held by the late Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham.
In the Truth Social post, Trump paired Andrews' first name with a rhyming anti-transgender slur.
"Annie 'Trannie' Andrews is running against our wonderful Darline Graham for the Senate in South Carolina," Trump wrote in an endorsement of Graham. "Darline is a High Quality person, maybe the Highest, and Annie Trannie is not, in particular, as it pertains to representing the Values of the Great People of South Carolina -- She is in favor of Transgender for Everyone, Open Borders, Defunding the Police, High Taxes, a Weak Military, and will absolutely fight to take your guns away -- In other words, she is against our Great Second Amendment!"
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