Maryland Democratic LGBTQ Diversity Leadership Council

04/13/2021

Trans athletes are a non-issue. Ask a coach...

We belatedly stopped excluding athletes of color from high school and college sports. How many more years will people try to exclude trans athletes?

04/08/2021

Our President sees us and hears us. What a change.

In the historic address, President Joe Biden called the crisis of violence against trans women of color "a stain on our nation's conscience...

03/31/2021

Appropriate on this Transgender Day of Visibility!

The Pentagon on Wednesday will sweep away Trump-era policies that largely banned transgender people from serving in the military, issuing new rules that offer them wider access to medical care and assistance with gender transition.

03/24/2021

Congrats to Dr. Levine...

Levine, a doctor who was previously Pennsylvania's secretary of health, is the first openly transgender federal official to win Senate confirmation. She's the new assistant secretary for health.

03/16/2021

Team Biden-Harris working it for all of us!

GLAAD is on the BEAT - the Biden Equality Accountability Tracker - to ensure that LGBTQ rights are not left behind...

03/11/2021

Now on to the Senate Judicial Proceedings (JPR) committee!

'No Marylander should be denied justice because of who they are'

03/09/2021

The President gets it!

"Not only is this the law of the land, it’s his own deeply held view...

02/25/2021

Bill approved with bipartisan support.

11/04/2020

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/11/04/sarah-mcbride-first-transgender-state-senator-delaware-victory/

Human Rights Campaign activist Sarah McBride has made history with her election as the first trans woman in a US state senate.

07/14/2020

Today is International Non-Binary People's Day.

Non-binary is a spectrum of gender identities that are not exclusively masculine or feminine. At ECU we love when everyone feels included. Here are 5 ways to be gender inclusive with language.

07/14/2020

"The mostly straight, non-Christian people behind the app "rally behind us because they know this app is needed. Everyone is worthy of love." --Ehron Ostendorf https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2020/07/new-app-lgbtq-christians-overcomes-development-struggles-pandemic/

07/03/2020

"ABC News Nightline reporter James Longman recently posted a video of his engagement to his boyfriend Alex Brannan. Longman popped the question while...in [England]." https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2020/07/abc-news-journalist-proposes-boyfriend-front-family-heart-warming-video/