Steve Charing OUTspoken

By Steve Charing ‘Tis the season that most people are brimming with optimism and high hopes that the coming year will be an improvement over...

For gays, keeping Huckabee out of the White House is a must. by Steve Charing THIS COUNTRY, AND specifically the LGBT community, does not ne...

Letter Published in the December 6, 2007 edition of the Baltimore Examiner I decry The Examiner for publishing the vitriolic letter by Ed Co...

By Steve Charing The distant state of Iowa will have a profound effect on who will be our next president. For gays and lesbians the 2008 gen...

by Steve Charing There are no American Idol-style judges. Nobody gets booted off the show. No one is forced to embarrass him or herself unle...

By Steve Charing As polls indicate, the movement towards lgbt equality is making progress. Folks across America are less likely to want to d...

By Steve Charing Former Human Rights Campaign Executive Director Elizabeth Birch, in addressing the 700 or so who attended the recent Equali...

By Steve Charing Two parallel events are occurring whereby activists are working towards lofty goals. One is an all-inclusive (gay, lesbian,...

By Steve Charing Cindy Grim lives with her partner Barbara Stratton and their two young boys Charlie, age 7 and Ridgeway, 10 months, in the ...

By Steve Charing Noting a void in the availability of legal services for Baltimore’s lgbt community, especially for those folks who are disa...

By Steve Charing After many years of discussion, my partner Bob and I finally took our first cruise. We decided at this point that we would...

By Steve Charing As the Maryland Court of Appeals squashed any immediate hopes for same-sex marriage here, the reasoning they used have caus...

By Steve Charing Senior Political Analyst September 18, 2007 marked the beginning of a new chapter in the history book for Maryland’s gay an...