Tag: Maryland

John Waters/Trump – Pink Flamingos – Promo Anyone who knows the movies of legendary John Waters knows that he is passionate about his hometown of Baltimore, Maryland. Waters is among the city’s most famous native sons with a decade’s long career that spawned vast cult classic cult films. Polyester and Hairspray (starring the otherworldly, Divine) are among his masterpieces as well Cry Baby, Serial Mom, and more. A common thread in nearly every John Waters film is that they are often...

A Christian school in Maryland has sued the state, claiming it is entitled to government money even though it bans LGBTQ students, faculty, and staff. The Bethel Christian Academy in Savage, Maryland, is a Christian school that says it provides “an authentic Christian learning community to train students to know, love, and serve the Lord Jesus Christ.” The school’s handbook says that marriage is only between a man or a woman and that all students must present in a way that...

Several high school students who vandalized their school with hateful slurs were caught because their phones automatically connected to the school’s wireless network. Seth Taylor, Tyler Curtiss, Joshua Shaffer, and Matthew Lipp were seniors at Glenelg High School in Maryland last year when they broke into the school for a senior prank at nearly midnight one day in May. They said that they intended to paint “Class of 2018” in the school, but instead they painted racist, homophobic, and anti-semitic slurs,...

Proponents called the honor "a way to break stigma." A new elementary school in Maryland will be named after gay civil rights legend Bayard Rustin. The Montgomery County Board of Education voted Thursday to name the school after Rustin by a 6-2 vote. Despite being the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington and a close advisor to Martin Luther King, Rustin was forced to work behind the scenes for much of his career because of his sexuality. Some residents oppose naming...

RIP Matt Murrey A gay man was stabbed to death in his apartment in Maryland. Matt Murrey worked as a security guard in D.C and had attended many of the Black Pride events in the city. On Tuesday, 30 May, police were called to go to his apartment to check on his welfare. ‘When they arrived, they found the victim suffering from trauma inside of his home,’ the statement says. ‘He was pronounced dead at the scene.’ He was just 26. Homicide detectives are working...

Thomas Roszkowski of Maryland is a proud supporter of Donald Trump, and ever since the election his Silver Spring home has been targeted because of that support. The latest is a swastika spray-painted on his glass screen door. The Vietnam veteran told WTOP Radio he was taking his wife to church on Sunday when they saw the vandalism to their Montgomery County house. And it wasn’t the first time they’ve been hit by those opposed to president-elect Trump. “First they stole...