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Despite advances, poverty persists for Baltimore’s LGBT residents

April 27, 2014

from Washington Blade by Michael K. Lavers Courtney, a 20-year-old transgender woman from Maryland’s Eastern Shore, has been trying to get a job for more than a year but has been unable to do so because of her gender identity and expression. She said during a recent interview that she has been able to work […]

Poverty in the LGBT community

Washington Blade –Lou Chibbaro Jr. As the 50th anniversary of the U.S. war on poverty launched by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 is commemorated this year, LGBT advocates are pointing to little noticed studies showing that the rate of poverty in the LGBT community is higher than that of the general population. In a […]

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Despite advances, poverty persists for Baltimore’s LGBT residents

Poverty in the LGBT community