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Advocacy groups began distributing nearly 50,000 flyers countering anti-LGBT propaganda to Montgomery County public high schools in April, the Metro DC PFLAG organization announced on April 11.

On April 6, 2012, at Red Emma’s Bookstore Coffeehouse, a small group gathered for the Baltimore initiation of the Gender EDGE Collective Quarterly events. These events are held twice a year in Baltimore, at Red Emma’s, and twice a year in Philadelphia, at a similar project entitled The Wooden Shoe. The events are meant to connect the two cities in radical gender justice organizing in hopes to formulate campaigns together, share resources, and build off of one another. The quarterly events are also part performance and part activist gathering. The performance aspect is meant to be a space where those who work on gender justice activism are empowered through their art; both in a public venue and with a community that is working along aligning visions. Performances vary from music, to poetry, to dance, to creative monologues.  The second part of the evening is for discussion; for a community and their allies to discuss the realities that they live through. Further, it is a space to organize around those issues and build a movement.