Frederick Hertz News Today

The National Center for Lesbian Rights will hold its second annual Pride in the Park celebration Saturday, June 3, from 3 to 7 p.m. at the National AIDS Memorial Grove in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.

Maryland has no policies or laws for same-sex marriages that covers divorce. But it soon may. The Court of Appeals is scheduled to hear next month the appeal by two women whose request for an uncontested divorce was denied. A ruling could set a precedent that all Maryland judges must follow.

Toy drives to help children this holiday season have started or will soon begin in San Francisco.

To many New Yorkers, he was their brash and blustery mayor. But friends are now describing the private strain endured by a public man laboring to conceal his sexual orientation.