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Friday, 07 November 2008 |
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Equality Maryland's Jazz Brunch 2008 Hundreds of lgbt state leaders and activists came out in near record numbers to attend Equality Maryland’s (EM) sixth annual Jazz Brunch. The event is the largest Baltimore fundraiser held for the statewide lgbt civil rights organization. EM honored Isis, a transgender woman from Prince Georges County and a contestant on television’s America’s Next Top Model. EM’s executive director Dan Furmansky was also honored. Under his determined leadership, EM experienced rapid growth and expanded political power in Annapolis. Today, Equality Maryland is the most successful lgbt rights in the state. Furmansky announced last spring that he was stepping down at the end of December. The event was held at Marriott Waterfront on Sunday, November 2.
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Friday, 07 November 2008 |
Local News Pioneering Baltimore lgbt activist Norman Thomas dies at 66Norman Thomas, one of the founders of the Baltimore Gay Alliance (BGA) and Gay Community Center of Baltimore and one of the first African Americans to own a downtown gift shop, died at Mercy Hospital on October 25 from MRSA, a virulent, antibiotic resistant staph infection. He was 66 and a lifelong Baltimore resident.
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