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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: Patrick A. Paschall Email: ppaschall@FreeStateLegal.org Office: 410-625-5428 x11 Cell: 409-771-6763 Baltimore, MD – February 9, 2016 – FreeState Legal and Equality Maryland have learned that the Maryland Insurance Administration has recently...

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   Press Contact:   Patrick A. Paschall Email:                    ppaschall@FreeStateLegal.org Office:                  410-625-5428 x11 Cell:                       409-771-6763   Equality Maryland and FreeState Legal Join Forces To Better Serve LGBTQ Marylanders   Baltimore, MD – January...

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...

We are excited to inform you that FreeState Legal has moved offices! We will have more office space to accommodate our larger staff of attorneys, and more private meeting spaces for individual meetings with clients.  ...

Pictured: Transgender flag FreeState Legal, Maryland’s civil legal aid organization for the low-income lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer community, announces two separate expansions of access to health care coverage for the transgender community. CareFirst, the...

FreeState Legal client, Ken Jiretsu (left) with FreeState Legal Staff Attorney Rebecca Earlbeck at the Maryland Division of Vital Records in Baltimore on October 1, 2015 Baltimore – October 1, 2015 – This morning at the Maryland...

FreeState Legal Project is proud to share another interview from the Story of My Name Project. The Story of My Name Project is a collection of stories from transgender and/or gender non-conforming individuals about the meaning...

FreeState Legal has won a groundbreaking victory in a case involving harassment and mistreatment of a transgender person who is an inmate in a Maryland prison facility. The decision in Brown v. Patuxent Institution, a prison...

The SpeakFire! Panel Series is proud to announce Rising to Liberation in the Black LGBTQ Community, the coalition’s 2015 to 2016 panel series exploring and celebrating how the Black LGBTQ community in Baltimore defines and works towards freedom...