Tag Archives: Baltimore

It’s believed that this is a first for major league baseball: “After consultation with Major League Baseball and city and local officials, tomorrow’s game between the Orioles and Chicago White Sox will be closed to the public,” the team said in a statement. “The Orioles will also play their three-game series against the Tampa Bay Rays, scheduled for May 1-3, …

Via ABC News: Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan declared a state of emergency today following a violent gathering in Baltimore, where people threw objects at police, set cars on fire and looted businesses. Hogan also activated the National Guard. The standoff began near the Mondawmin Mall in the northwest part of the city, the Baltimore Police Department said, as the group …

Set your faces to stunned. From the website of the Archdiocese Of Baltimore: Celebrate Pride Month with the St. Ignatius community! Embracing God’s Gifts, St. Ignatius’ Gay & Lesbian ministry, is inviting you to join us on Friday, June 13th at 7 PM in the Chapel of Grace, where we will give thanks to God for the gift of family. …

There’s some screaming, so you might want to turn it down.

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake will officiate at a mass gay wedding ceremony during her city’s gay pride event. The GLBT Community Center of Baltimore and Central Maryland is hosting the annual parade and block party in Mount Vernon and festival at Druid Hill Park — the largest gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender gathering in the state — on June …

Beach House is from Baltimore and it shows. The clip is delightfully weird and quite appropriately it features Twin Peaks cast member Ray Wise.

The Archdiocese of Baltimore has issued a statement. Dear Parishioners, Earlier today, the Archdiocese of Baltimore learned that Deacon William Albaugh, 66, was arrested this morning on a charge of possession of child pornography by the Baltimore County Police Department. Albaugh, a permanent deacon assigned to St. Joseph Church in Fullerton, was ordained in 1996 and has spent his entire …

Famed gay novelist Amistead Maupin made a Super Bowl bet with fellow writer Laura Lippman in which the loser would pen an ode to the winner’s hometown. Here’s Maupin’s tribute to Baltimore. The Virtues of Baltimore (After Pondering Weak and Weary) Who makes Baltimore so fine? The Duchess of Windsor or Divine? Poe and his Raven or Mama Cass? The …

“I’ve preached since day one to my teammates that there’s certain words you can’t say. And when they’re around me they know — if B.A.’s around, you can’t say ‘gay’ in a derogatory manner, you can’t say the three-letter ‘f’ word. And I tell them, I go, you can’t say those things. And if people hear you say those things, …

Maryland’s first same-sex marriages will take place tonight shortly after the first stroke of the new year. The mayor of Baltimore has ordered the opening of City Hall for the ceremonies. “New Years Day will have a new meaning for the hundreds – if not thousands – of couples who will finally have the right to marry the person they …

From the Baltimore Sun: The case for Question 6, which would affirm Maryland’s law authorizing same-sex marriage, is simple. It upholds the principle that the law should treat everyone the same. Marriage is both a religious and a civil institution. Churches, synagogues and mosques have always set their own rules about which marriages they recognize, and this law does not …

From the Baltimore Sun: The opponents [of same-sex marriage] are resorting to spurious arguments to convince voters that the law will somehow be unfair to those with objections to gay marriages because they don’t want to face the real question of fairness at stake. Should the law treat people differently because of their sexual orientation? Or should everyone be treated …

From yesterday’s editorial: Are all Maryland families entitled to the same protections under the law? Are all children, no matter who their parents are, entitled to the same kind of support? We think they should be, if for no other reason than that it’s important for Maryland to be a welcoming place for families of all kinds. The only reason …

As I reported last week, Baltimore County is considering adding sexual orientation and gender identity to its non-discrimination policies. The “ex-gay” group PFOX is now demanding that they too be protected from discrimination. Because whatever “ex-gays” are, it isn’t a sexual orientation? “Councilmember Quark’s legislation must specifically include former homosexuals to ensure non-discrimination against unpopular minority groups like the ex-gay …

As per usual. They declare: “Since the passing of a similar law in Montgomery County, Maryland, rapes have occurred in the women’s bathrooms of Montgomery Community College, Asbury nursing home, Pelican restaurant, and Bethesda Hyatt.” They make no claim that trans people were involved in any of those cases, but women were raped somewhere and that’s obviously due to transgender …

Things start at 1:45: “Mic check! Mic check! Karl Rove is the architect of Occupy Iraq! Karl Rove is the architect of Occupy Afghanistan!” Rove kind of loses his shit at that point and most of the audience is on his side, of course.

Today JMG reader John convinced the manager of a Baltimore-area Whole Foods to temporarily remove a placard which solicits donations for a local charity which trumpets the below mission statement on its website. We believe that God has commanded that no intimate sexual activity be engaged in outside of a marriage between a man and a woman. We believe that …

To the dismay of LGBT activists, one of the women convicted of assaulting a transgender woman in a Baltimore McDonald’s has only received a five year sentence for the hate crime. “The whole incident is unfortunate and demonstrates the lack of knowledge and understanding, and discrimination against transgender people,” said Patrick Wojahn, board president of the Equality Maryland Foundation. “If …

One of the teenagers caught on video in a brutal attack on a transwoman at a Baltimore McDonald’s has pleaded guilty. Teonna Monae Brown, 19, pleaded guilty in a Baltimore County court to one court of first-degree assault and one count of a hate crime in the attack on Chrissy Polis, 22, said Baltimore County State’s Attorney Scott Shellenberger. The …