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Today, a Frederick County transgender student filed a motion to defend his school board’s policies that seek to prevent discrimination, harassment, and stigmatization of transgender and gender nonconforming students in the school system, and that seek...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press Contact: M. Saida Agostini Email: sagostini@freestate-justice.org Office: 410-625-5428 / Cell: 301.529.2340   Maryland Department of Human Resources Announces New Protections for LGBTQ Youth in Foster Care Baltimore, Maryland – August 4, 2016 –...

Pictured: FreeState Justice client Michael Conover, holding his son, Jaxon. UPDATE (July 2016): VICTORY.  On July 7, 2016, Maryland’s highest court, the Court of Appeals, ruled in favor of our client, Michael Conover, holding unanimously that the parent-child...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   Press Contact:   Saida Agostini Email:                    sagostini@FreeStateLegal.org Phone:                 410-625-5428 x14   Equality Maryland and FreeState Legal Announce Additional Listening Sessions and Launch of Online Survey   Baltimore, MD – April 20, 2016...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press Contact:      Saida Agostini Email:                    sagostini@FreeStateLegal.org Phone:                   410-625-5428 x14   The Frederick Center Inc. and FreeState Legal/Equality Maryland to Host LGBTQ Conference...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   Press Contact:     Saida Agostini Email:                    sagostini@FreeStateLegal.org Phone:                  410-625-5428 x14   Equality Maryland and FreeState Legal Announce Series of Statewide Listening Sessions  ...

Let’s explore the role spirituality plays in igniting passion for liberation. Join us for an important conversation on how spirituality can be a source of healing for Black LGBTQ folks. Panelists include:  Richael Faithful, folk healer, conjurer and...