Maryland
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Maryland Senate OKs artificial insemination healthcare bill for same-sex couples
Tuesday, March 24, 2015Female same-sex couples in Maryland would have the same health care benefits for artificial insemination as heterosexual couples, under a bill passed by the state Senate. -
Man sentenced to 4 years in prison for stabbing transgender girl on D.C. train
Wednesday, March 11, 2015U.S. Attorney Ronald Machen Jr. says Reginald Klaiber stabbed the 15-year-old transgender girl last July "solely because of who she is." -
Transgender former Navy SEAL plans primary challenge to U.S. Rep. Hoyer
Thursday, February 12, 2015Kristin Beck, a transgender former Navy SEAL, is planning a primary challenge to the second-ranking Democrat in the House, U.S. Rep. Steny Hoyer. -
First 24 hours of new Maryland governor’s tenure ‘not good’ for LGBT community
Sunday, January 25, 2015In one of his first acts as Maryland's new GOP governor, Larry Hogan has held up a regulation that would have banned Medicaid providers from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. -
Fighting the spread of HIV by posing on the dance floor
Saturday, January 17, 2015Beneath the neon lights of a banquet hall on an industrial stretch of the city, models strutted across an elevated stage in homemade evening gowns and tuxedos adorned with sequins, lace and something atypical for the… -
Four unsolved murders of transgender women test Baltimore police outreach
Saturday, August 30, 2014BALTIMORE -- The day after Mia Henderson's body was found in a Baltimore alley, Police Commissioner Anthony Batts invited members of the city's LGBT community to a meeting. "We are listening. We are paying attention," he… -
Md. now offers transition-related care to transgender state employees
Wednesday, July 23, 2014ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- Maryland has become only the third state in the nation to provide insurance coverage for transition-related care. The policy change, which went into effect July 1 but was only announced publicly this week,… -
Slain transgender woman was NBA player’s sibling
Thursday, July 17, 2014BALTIMORE -- A transgender woman found slain in Baltimore on Wednesday morning was the sibling of an NBA player Reggie Bullock of the Los Angeles Clippers. Baltimore police say 26-year-old Mia Henderson was found dead early… -
Nine of 12 LGBT candidates advance in Tuesday’s primary
Wednesday, June 25, 2014Nine of 12 openly LGBT candidates won their primary races Tuesday, but lesbian Maryland State Delegate Heather Mizeur was not one them. In a six-person race for the Democratic nomination for Maryland governor, Mizeur won 22… -
Maryland man sentenced for assaulting transgender woman in D.C. store
Monday, June 16, 2014WASHINGTON -- A man who pleaded guilty to pistol-whipping a transgender woman in a convenience store in Washington has been sentenced to 28 months in prison. Thirty-six-year-old Michael Phillips of Fairmount Heights, Maryland, was sentenced Monday…
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