gay rights

While I was a visiting instructor of feature writing for six months in southern India, I caught a glimpse of what life is like for young adults from India's most privileged classes.

Old photographs, newspapers and other miscellaneous "gay pride ephemera" from the last half-century of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history in Baltimore will be added on Tuesday to one of the nation's most esteemed museum collections.

In the three months leading up to Baltimore Pride this summer, organizers anxiously scrambled to cobble together an event that usually takes them a full year to plan.

In early summer 1969, Judy Garland died, the Stonewall Riots marked the beginning of the modern gay rights movement and we were a month away from setting foot on the moon. And these were the tracks everyone was listening to, via Billboard's Hot 100 chart archive.

It took decades before serious documentaries about the civil rights struggle of the 1960s began to appear.

Homosexuality is now the "third rail" of politics; touch it and face political death

Christopher Doyle says he doesn't think there is anything wrong with being gay. He also says people with same-sex attractions, including children, can rid themselves of those attractions through therapy, from him, on a couch in a tidy suburban home in Bowie.

In New York City in the 1930s, '40s and '50s, when city laws made it illegal to serve gay patrons or hire gay employees, it took a lot of money and clout for a gay establishment to stay ahead of the vice police and remain open.

Johns Hopkins University will bestow an honorary degree next month on Edith Windsor, the woman who last year successfully challenged the constitutionality of the federal law banning same-sex marriage. Windsor's attorney, Roberta Kaplan, will also receive the honor.

Advocates in Maryland who backed the successful passage of the first statewide legal protections for transgender citizens in housing, employment and public accommodations this legislative session don't consider their work complete.

Benjamin Jealous leaves the NAACP a revitalized and relevant institution that is at the forefront of the social justice struggles of our time.

Benjamin Jealous leaves the NAACP a revitalized and relevant institution that is at the forefront of the social justice struggles of our time.

Choosing from a slate of three Democratic candidates who have all been friendly to its cause, Maryland's largest gay rights organization on Monday endorsed Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown for governor.

As the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center of Baltimore prepares to relocate this fall after more than 30 years at its West Chase Street headquarters, a small group of volunteers is working to compile, catalog and preserve records they say highlight the history of the center and the trajectory of the nation through a time of rapid changes.

Retiring NAACP President Benjamin Jealous transformed the group by refocusing it on contemporary concerns

In more recent years, I've been impressed by a new wave of people making their views known in the face of much greater hostility: gays and lesbians who have come out, especially in very prominent positions, or pushed for equal rights.

In a broad-ranging interview on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno" on Tuesday night, President Barack Obama addressed Russia's recently passed anti-gay laws by saying he has "no patience for countries that try to treat gays or lesbians or transgender persons in ways that intimidate them or are harmful to them."

It¿s clear from the decades-long gay rights movement here in the United States that gays and lesbians have always changed hearts and minds and forced public policy changes by being counted, not by sitting it out.

Del. Emmett C. Burns, Jr., a prominent opponent of same-sex marriage and other gay rights initiatives in Annapolis for the last two decades, is officially retiring from the state legislature next year -- capping a long political career in which his stances on gay issues have increasingly put him at odds with legislative colleagues and younger voters.

Pride celebration shows the diversity of the gay community

Suffice it to say I've been ambivalent for years about the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's ban on gay men donating blood.

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake officiated a mass wedding of about 20 same-sex couples at the Pride celebration.

Maryland Corporate Council meets

Al Feldstein's button collection tells the story of the gay rights movement in snappy slogans and colorful art.

Pardon me if I'm encouraged, but not enthused, by the decision of the Boy Scouts of America to lift its century-old ban on gay scouts.

Despite Republican opposition, the passage of gay marriage laws in three more states this month signals a growing acceptance of such unions

Campuses are abuzz with support for marriage equality, but will that translate into greater political engagement for today's youth?

Leonard Pitts says Brendon Ayanbadejo is wrong to advise gay athletes to lie about their sexuality.

Religious organizations that object to homosexuality have always been the foundation of Scouting, but a ban on gays is now bad for business.

Super Bowl setting a prime opportunity for Brendon Ayanbadejo¿s push for gay rights

Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo is looking to harness the increased Super Bowl media attention to support same-sex marriage

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama began his second term Monday by calling for an end to the rigid ideologies of modern politics but laying out a broad policy agenda more likely to stoke partisan confrontation than avoid it.

As the New Year rolled in, two Havre de Grace couples became some of the first gays and lesbians to be legally married in Harford County.

What media outlets are saying about same-sex marriage and the election of the first openly gay U.S. Senator

The vote in support of gay marriage in Maryland is likely to portend a shift in the political and legal landscape surrounding marriage equality.

The Republican Party's belief in individual liberty and religious freedom argues in favor of marriage equality.

Frank Schubert, a California-based strategist, is running campaigns against same-sex marriage in Maryland and three other states.

A new 30-second television commercial opposing same-sex marriage makes a claim that children "do best" when reared in a traditional, heterosexual marriage — or, as the ad says, by "their married mom and dad."

An event in New York Thursday evening atop a SoHo hotel raised money for the campaign to uphold Maryland's same-sex marriage law, which goes to voters in November. About 200 guests paid between $250 and $25,000 to mingle for two hours with celebrities, munching on shrimp and caviar hors d'oeuvres.

There is reason to be concerned that a didactic drama will be too, er, didactic, but John Marans' "The Temperamentals" explores the early history of the gay rights movement with a generally winning blend of pathos and humor.

Del. Burns withdraws effort to silence Ayanbadejo but embarrassing episode likely helps the cause of same-sex marriage in Md.

After drawing national attention for his attempt to muzzle a football player who supported gay rights, a Maryland delegate walked back his position Sunday and said Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo should be allowed to speak out in favor of same-sex marriage.

As marriage referendum nears, three Baltimore area theater companies offer plays on gay themes