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FreeState Justice is excited to publicly launch our Growth Campaign: the Campaign for LGBTQIA+ Equity – a $1.1 million fundraising campaign to expand our impact and make Maryland a national leader in advancing LGBTQIA+ rights! While...

On Monday, June 29, the Supreme Court of the United States issued its decision in June Medical Services LLC v. Gee, striking down a Louisiana law requiring doctors performing abortions to have admitting privileges at nearby...

On Monday, June 15, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled, based on multiple cases around LGBTQ protections under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, that companies don’t have the right to...

On Friday June 12, 2020, the United States Department of Health and Human Services released long-expected regulations eliminating existing protections for transgender individuals accessing healthcare or using health insurance. The announcement came in the middle of...

FreeState Justice, Maryland’s LGBTQ advocacy organization, has hired its next Executive Director, Jeremy LaMaster (full biography on our staff page). Jeremy’s career has focused on translating feminist and anti-racist theory into practice by incorporating social justice...

  NOTE: FreeState Justice signed onto this statement, initiated and coordinated by leaders from Equality Florida, the Human Rights Campaign, and more – and signed by dozens of LGBTQ leaders (see below). “If you are neutral...

Join us on Tuesday, June 9th, 2PM-3:30PM for a live webinar training on Name Change and Gender Identity Petitions in partnership with the Maryland Pro Bono Resource Center. You can register for this webinar at: probonomd.org/name-change...

Over the past three years, FreeState Justice has grown dramatically. We have recently undergone some role transitions and have had new members join our team. We are excited to once again have the full staff capacity...

During this stressful and uncertain time, we at FreeState wanted to reassure the community that we are still here to help. Although our physical office is closed, we are continuing to provide legal services to and...

Due to the public health crisis, the 2020 legislative session closed early and will tentatively reconvene in May. The abbreviated session meant that several of the bills we saw great momentum on did not make it...