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A letter from AIDS Action Baltimore to our community Dear Friends: AIDS Action Baltimore (AAB) has been providing essential services to people with HIV/AIDS since 1987. Thanks to your generosity, we’re still standing after a long hard financial battle. We know only too well that times are still tough, but as we commemorate our 30th year of service, we hope we can count on your continued support which will help us maintain our many HIV/AIDS programs. We still desperately need your help to keep our doors open and continue to provide our many essential services to the Baltimore HIV/AIDS community. […]

The Trump administration’s Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, main education experience is in the political and financial support for charter schools, and as an owner of a firm that pursues people in default on their student loans. Some have praised her rollback of Obama-era regulations that stripped young men accused of unwanted sex of any presumption of innocence in university tribunals. Others have criticized her for the same. On the LGBT front, DeVos rescinded directives that recommended students have access to facilities based on their asserted gender identities.

Will a LGBT-focused boutique that wears its sexuality on its sleeve thrive in an upmarket shopping center in Annapolis? Time will tell, as Same Gender Love only opened for business on December 2nd.

Several upcoming events support those experiencing homelessness this holiday season. Won’t you come out and help? Drag Me to X-mas is set for December 10th from 9 pm to 1 am at Ziascoz Bar and Lounge (1313 East Pratt Street, Baltimore). It’s a fundraiser for B & Dee’s Baltimore Love, a local LGBT-run group supporting the homeless. Tickets are $5. If one hundred people commit to attending, B and Dee’s Baltimore Love founder Brian Dolbow will appear in drag! For more info, visit Bit.ly/2im4Qau.

Harrisburg – In a five-to-one decision issued November 22nd, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s ruling that permanently bars Dawn A. Segal from holding judicial office. Segal, an open lesbian, served as a municipal-court judge in Philadelphia for about six years until she was suspended without pay last year due to improper conversations with another judge. The majority opinion states that Segal’s actions were “an affront to the administration of justice and diminish confidence in the judiciary at large.” The sole dissenter recommended that the case be remanded to the Court of Judicial Discipline for further review to […]

Long a Baltimore institution, Hooker and Boys will present their 19th annual “12 Days of Christmas” charity fundraiser, where performers from around the region will get “naughty, nice, and nasty” December 9th, from noon to 6 pm at the Maritime Conference Center (692 Maritime Boulevard, Linthicum Heights). Doors open at noon and the show starts at 2.

If the holidays aren’t a good time to be merry and gay, then when’s better? The Baltimore Men’s Chorus (BMC) and the New Wave Singers of Baltimore (NWSB) will be performing at several events and concerts during December.

Jason Dottley is best known for his starring role in “Sordid Live: The Series,” the web’s “Body Hair,” the “Folks Like Us” podcast on iTunes, and as a five-time Billboard Top 40 singer. On December 1st, Spotlighters Theatre (817 St. Paul Street, Baltimore) will host Jason Dottley’s “Life on the Gay List 2–All the Sordid Details,” from 6 to 9PM.