Father of dead U.S. Marine ordered to pay organizers of anti-gay protest
The father of a U.S. Marine killed in Iraq has been ordered to pay $16,510 to a family that protested his son’s funeral in Maryland. Albert Snyder sued members of the Westboro Baptist Church because...
View ArticleBaltimore delegates delay key vote on passage of Maryland gay marriage bill
Two Democrats blocked a critical vote on the Civil Marriage Protection Act in the Maryland House of Delegate's Judiciary Committee late Tuesday afternoon, stalling the measure from advancing to the...
View ArticleBaltimore police investigate brutal attack on trans woman at local McDonald’s
Police in Baltimore are investigating a brutal attack at a McDonald's restaurant on a person reported to be a transgender woman.
View ArticleMcDonald’s fires employee who recorded brutal beating of transgender woman
McDonald's has fired the employee who recorded the violent beating of a customer at a Baltimore County restaurant earlier this week.
View ArticleTransgender victim of brutal attack at McDonald’s restaurant speaks out
A transgender woman who was brutally beaten at a Baltimore area McDonald's spoke out on Saturday, and said the attack was "definitely a hate crime" and that she's been afraid to go out in public ever...
View ArticleBaltimore police charge 18-year-old in attack on transgender woman
Baltimore County police have charged an 18-year-old woman in the brutal attack on a transgender woman at a local McDonald's restaurant on April 18.
View ArticleHundreds rally outside McDonald’s where transgender woman brutally attacked
Several hundred people of all ages, races, genders and sexual orientations on Monday rallied outside the McDonald's restaurant where a transgendered woman was brutally beaten on April 18.
View ArticleMcDonald’s attackers face hate crime charges in beating of transgender female
A grand jury has indicted two female suspects on hate crime charges in the attack on a transgender woman at a Baltimore area McDonald's last month.
View ArticleTeen pleads guilty in attack on transgender woman at Baltimore area McDonald’s
A 19-year-old woman whose beating of a transgender woman at a Baltimore-area McDonald's earlier this year, has pleaded to the attack.
View ArticleBaltimore woman sentenced in McDonald’s attack on trangender woman
A Baltimore woman accused of beating a transgender woman at an area McDonald's on April 18 has been sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to the attack.
View ArticleKiller gets life in prison without parole for assault, murder of gay teen
A judge in Baltimore, Md., has sentenced Dante Parrish, 37, to life in prison without parole for the savage murder of Jason Mattison Jr., a 15-year old openly gay teen.
View ArticleBaltimore Sun: Campaign of marriage misinformation begins in Maryland
In a new editorial column Sunday, the Baltimore Sun takes aim at opponents of Maryland’s marriage equality law, and said they are “resorting to the same playbook of false attacks they have used to...
View ArticleNFL player responds to lawmaker’s demand that he stops supporting marriage...
Brendon Ayanbadejo, a linebacker for the NFL's Baltimore Ravens, on Friday responded to a Maryland lawmaker who demanded that he "cease and desist" his support for marriage equality, and expressed...
View ArticleOpenly gay Baltimore man says Christmas attack was a hate crime
BALTIMORE, Md. -- An openly gay East Baltimore resident who was severely beaten Christmas night told police investigators that he believed that he was attacked because he is gay.
View ArticleWestboro announces plans to protest same-sex marriage in Maryland
The Westboro Baptist Church, home of anti-gay extremists known for their “Gods hates fags” and "God hates dead soldiers" protests, has received permits to rally in front of courthouses in Towson and...
View ArticleFamily ‘friend’ admits to murdering Baltimore gay teen
As LGBT advocates around the country are planning candlelight vigils in memory of Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado — the 19-year-old boy who was burned, dismembered and decapitated last week in Puerto Rico —...
View Article‘Ace of Cakes’ star offers free wedding cake to rejected Oregon gay couple
Baltimore pastry chef Duff Goldman, star of Food Network's "Ace of Cakes," has offered to bake and deliver -- free of charge -- a wedding cake to the lesbian couple in Oregon who was denied service by...
View ArticleDoctor withdraws as Johns Hopkins commencement speaker over anti-gay remarks
BALTIMORE — A Baltimore pediatric neurosurgeon who made derogatory comments comparing same-sex marriage to bestiality has withdrawn as commencement speaker at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
View ArticleBaltimore mayor to preside over Pride Festival mass wedding
BALTIMORE -- Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake will officiate a mass wedding for same-sex couples during the Baltimore Pride Festival next month.
View ArticleBaltimore police form advisory council to improve relations with LGBT community
BALTIMORE -- The Baltimore police department on Friday announced the formation of an advisory council to help improve its relations with the LGBT community.
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