Wal-Mart Stores Inc. improved its treatment of LGBT employees over the past year, nudging the retail giant closer to companies such as Apple Inc. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc., the Human Rights Campaign said.

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The Human Rights Campaign Foundation has graded the city of Baltimore with a perfect 100 points on its Municipal Equality Index, the nation’s largest civil rights organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, announced Tuesday.

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COLLEGE PARK — The University of Maryland has announced the creation of an annual award that will be given to a sports journalist or broadcaster who has made “significant contributions to racial and gender equality in sports.” The Sam Lacy-Wendell ...

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Inequality hurts us all. Imagine if you could go back 45 years to 1968. That year, after three decades of creative policy from President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal through President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society, the United States was one of the world’s most equal nations.

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SAN FRANCISCO — Gay marriage took another step Tuesday on its march to the U.S. Supreme Court, when a federal appeals court that struck down California’s ban on same-sex unions refused to reconsider the ruling. Now that the case has ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Moving swiftly to stem potential damage to same-sex marriage legislation in Maryland, first lady Katie O’Malley said Friday she regretted her choice of words at a national conference when she said gay marriage legislation in the state failed ...

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