A Divine Documentary at SXSW
I AM DIVINE – Teaser from Jeffrey Schwarz on Vimeo. A documentary about Baltimore’s favorite drag queen, Divine, (nee Harris Glenn Milstead) is making quite a splash at South by Southwest this week,...
View ArticleTwenty Percent of Same-Sex Couples in Baltimore Area Raising Children
When gay marriage is debated, it’s often considered more or less hypothetically — Should one have the right to marry another of the same sex? But to think of it this way obscures the reality that gay...
View ArticleBaltimore Police Work Hard to Recruit LGBT Officers
A video with a funky backing track, a hip font, and promises of an “open,” “welcoming,” and “diverse” police force are all part of the Baltimore City Police Department’s new attempt to recruit more...
View ArticleMy Dear Boys
Even before I was old enough to drink, I was desperate to get into the El Moroccan Room. I didn’t know why I thought I would feel more at home in a gay bar with a drag show than I did in the straight...
View ArticleMd. Attorney General Candidate Takes on Ex-Gay Therapy Organization
In one corner we have Del. Jon Cardin, Democrat and candidate for Maryland Attorney General. In the other corner we have Christopher Doyle, director of the Bowie-based International Healing Foundation,...
View ArticleLGBT Equality Advocates Give High Marks to Baltimore Companies
When it comes to LGBT equality in the workplace, Baltimore, and Maryland in general, both get high marks from an influential group. According to a report released Wednesday by the organization behind...
View ArticleLarry Hogan Reverses Anti-Discrimination Order to Include LGBT Protections
Larry Hogan started off his term as governor by making a lot of people mad last Thursday. But it’s a new week in Maryland, and besides, executive orders can always be revised. Hogan immediately took...
View ArticleIt’s Lights, Camera, Action This Month at the 2015 Annapolis Film Festival
A day at the movies sounds nice, doesn’t it? How about a long weekend? Local film lovers can indulge in just that later this month, when the Annapolis Film Festival (AFF) returns for its third year in...
View ArticleA Maryland LGBT Advocacy Org Was So Successful That it Might Shut Down
To hear Equality Maryland’s board tell it, the LGBT advocacy organization was so successful that they advocated themselves out of a job. Earlier this week, the ink was still drying on the U.S. Supreme...
View ArticleLGBT Org Equality Maryland Isn’t Closing, After All
Despite dwindling finances that caused Equality Maryland’s board to consider whether they should keep the organization up and running, the LGBT advocacy organization isn’t shutting down. This week, the...
View ArticleBaltimore Gets a Perfect Score for LGBT Equality
The Human Rights Campaign is the nation’s largest LGBT advocacy organization, and every year they evaluate cities to see whether their laws, policies, and services are inclusive of the LGBT community....
View ArticleMayor SRB Bans Travel to North Carolina, Mississippi
A day after U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced a lawsuit against the state of North Carolina over its laws discriminating against transgender people, Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake...
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OUTList Makes it to Johns Hopkins (Finally)
In 1994, an electrical engineering student at UCLA published the first OUTList, a two-page spread in the school’s daily newspaper that listed the names of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender...
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Baltimore the Second-Best City for Gay Singles Looking for Marriage, Kids
Forget San Francisco and Provincetown; gay singles who are pining to settle down with a partner and children should head to Baltimore, according to a recent poll by online dating site Chemistry.com....
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What’s the Most Gay-Friendly School in Baltimore?
Johns Hopkins publishes OUTList, a list of all the out lesbian/gay/bi/transgender students, staff, and faculty. The University of Maryland makes employees’ same-sex partners eligible for benefits. But...
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