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Axios
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Axios
Richmond amps up Pride with "The Gayest Room Ever" and a Stonewall parade
Locals are stepping up their Pride celebrations this year. The big picture: Richmonders' support comes as corporate sponsors are scaling back their Pride funding this year. Driving the news: A smattering of new local Pride events and initiatives have already been announced for this month, which, of course, is Pride month. Here are a few of our faves: 🦄 " The Gayest Room Ever" at Quirk Hotel, which Virginia Pride, artist Scott Csoke and Quirk unveiled last week. The room, curated and styled by Csoke, is filled with art and pieces made by local LGBTQ+ artists or that represent RVA's queer history. Prices start at $239 for the "Everyone Under the Rainbow" package, which includes a one-night stay, two Pride Palomas on the rooftop and a $10 donation to Virginia Pride. Bookings available through September. 🌈 Pride on Forest Hill will pop up in South Richmond on June 14. The event will feature a Pride artist market at Thirsty's (noon-5pm), followed by a Pride picnic in Forest Hill Park, then it's back to Thirsty's for a Pride Happy Hour and afterparty. ✊🏻 Stonewall on Stonewall takes locals back to South Richmond on June 28 to commemorate the anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising, the event that kick-started the modern Pride movement.
Axios
07-03-2025
- Axios
"Greetings from Richmond" mural vanishes without warning
The "Greetings from Richmond, Virginia" mural on Broad Street is no more. Why it matters: It was one of the last public displays of the city's 2020 protests, which lasted more than 100 days. Friction point: No one knows why the mural was taken down on Tuesday. Muralists Mickael Broth and Ross Trimmer told Axios they weren't notified and found out on social media. The owner of the flower shop whose building housed the mural said she wasn't alerted either, and showed up to see it being painted over. That leaves the building owners, Ted and Katie Ukrop, who also own Quirk Hotel down the street. They didn't respond to multiple requests for comment from Axios. Catch up quick: The owner of Charm School, an ice cream shop that's now in Forest Hill, commissioned the postcard-style mural in 2016. Muralists Broth and Trimmer updated it four years later, with moments from the uprisings filling in the word "Richmond." The "M" had "BLM" projected onto Confederate Gen. Robert. E. Lee's now-taken-down monument. The "O" and "N" showed when Richmond police pepper sprayed protesters. And the "D" depicted when protesters set a cop car on fire. Zoom in: The mural had become a photo op for the city for nearly a decade. Trimmer acknowledged public art isn't supposed to last, but said this one "meant a lot to a lot of people that were there when things were happening." Broth told Axios he's seen people sharing on social media that they felt like the mural was a fixture in their cityscape. "And now that's gone." What we're watching: It's become commonplace for Black Lives Matter murals to fade away, and the latest could be the one in D.C.
