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- ↑ "Program Listing". Maryland Department of Health . Retrieved 2019-04-28.
- ↑ "The GLCCB: Former Chase Street home of the Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Baltimore". Baltimore Heritage. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
- ↑ "Our History". Pride Center of Maryland. Retrieved 2017-04-27.
- ↑ "Recording the Rainbow Revolution: As gay bars in Baltimore shut their doors, activists work to document LGBTQ history". Baltimore City Paper. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
- ↑ "About Us". Baltimore OUTloud. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
- ↑ "Baltimore City Newspapers on Microfilm, Listed by Title". Enoch Pratt Free Library . Retrieved 2019-04-27.
- ↑ "About The Gay paper. (Baltimore, Md.) 1979-1983". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress. Retrieved 27 April 2019.
