August 25, 2020 Words by Jhamy Carey Hello Safe Space NOVA! My name is Jhamy Carey, I am 19 years old and a proud lesbian. I use she/her/hers pronouns and I am an incoming freshman at George Mason University this fall. Some things you should know about me is that I’m a big Buffalo Bills fan, [...]
August 11, 2020 Words by Lauren Brown I was raised in southern Virginia - the oldest girl of four kids and the daughter of a preacher. I was pretty sheltered growing up and went to a small Baptist school in North Carolina for undergrad. Around the age of twenty, I had my first boyfriend but [...]
July 28, 2020 Q1: How important is an organization like Safe Space NOVA to the LGBT+ youth community? Organizations dedicated to ensuring all young people, especially LGBT+ young people, have a space to be and express themselves are so critical for our community. When I was younger, I always had people – family, friends, teachers [...]
July 24, 2020 On Wednesday you heard Jordan Costen answered “10 Questions” from guest host Jane Hess Collins about himself, Safe Space NOVA, the LGBTQA community, and how Alexandrians can get involved in our great city during our Z-TV LIVE! show. Here are five more questions with Jordan submitted by you during our Z-TV live [...]
July 23, 2020 The Safe Space NOVA FY2019 Annual Report is now available! What an exciting year we had as we were able expand our programming even more! Click the image below to view the full report. Thank you as always for your continued support.
By Charles A. Sumpter Jr., Safe Space NOVA Board Member Originally published in The Advocate The emergence of COVID-19 has greatly exposed the fragility of the American economy and social safety nets established to support underserved communities. COVID-19 reveals to many that the United States and the world are severely underprepared when it comes to [...]
We'd like to send a huge thank you to everyone who attended, supported, and planned the Safe Space NOVA Brunch Fundraiser. Words can't even begin to express how grateful we are to have such a great support system. While a lot of strides have been made, there is still much more work to do. And, [...]
September 17, 2019 Words by Will W. Smith During the last few months of High school I came out to one person...myself. Having had a girlfriend, I thought my attraction to guys was abnormal, physical only, and not “of god,” as my mother would later proclaim. I began talking to guys using MySpace and other [...]
September 3, 2019 Words by Clifton Walker “Are you at least Bisexual?” “No, that’s my not path bro!” This was the ending of the conversation that my brother and I just had pertaining to me “coming out” to him in the spring of 2011. I use quotations for coming out because I don’t ever recall [...]
August 20, 2019 PRIDE 2019 - Looking towards the Future… LGBTQ+ youth live in a world plagued with bullying, harassment and violence and many fears and suffer anxiety about what the future may look like for them. I’m now 53 years old and I can tell you that I had these exact same fears 25/30 [...]
