The International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations (IFMSA) has endorsed a policy statement in favor of marriage equality at its global conference in Baltimore, Maryland.

The conference voted to support a motion put forward by the Australian Medical Students Association (AMSA).

AMSA president Ben Veness presented the ‘Marriage Equality and Health’ policy statement to the IFMSA General Assembly in Baltimore.

Last year wasn't very good for Maryland delegate Don H. Dwyer Jr.

In August, he admitted to being drunk when accidentally crashing his boat into another full of children. Four of the youngsters were injured with one, a five year old girl, taken by helicopter to Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins Children’s Center.

How can gay and trans equality boost our economies and help towards everyone’s future and why should companies be advocating for it?

Those are some of the bigger questions delegates discussed at Out & Equal’s Workplace Summit in Baltimore, Maryland which finished yesterday (1 November).

Claudia Brind-Woody is a vice president at IBM and a board member of Out & Equal – the organization which campaigns for workplace equality in the US.

More gay people are standing up for themselves at work and ‘straight allies’ are keen to flex their muscles to support their LGBT colleagues.

That’s the finding of a new study released this morning in Baltimore, Maryland where Out & Equal is having it’s annual gay and trans workplace summit.

The Harris Interactive and Witeck Communications study found that a little over a quarter (26%) of US adults self-identify as allies to the LGBT community.

Hurricane Sandy is starting to batter the eastern coast of the US, the worst storm in 20 years to hit the region, but Out & Equal’s LGBT Workplace Summit is still on.

The event in Baltimore is in the path of the storm which is whipping up strong winds and torrential rain.

Many delegates and some key speakers have been unable to travel to the city in Maryland with trains cancelled, airplanes grounded and warnings not to travel on many key roads.

American football players Matt Birk and Brendan Ayanbadejo have clashed over their opposing views on gay marriage.

In a video demanding people vote against marriage equality in Maryland, Birk says: ‘[Marriage] provides unique foundation for society and children.

'Marriage is more than what adults want for themselves, it is also about the next generation. 

‘Marriage is, and should remain, between a man and a woman.’

A homophobic Maryland lawmaker has admitted to being drunk when he accidentally crashed his boat into a boat full of children.

Maryland delegate Don H. Dwyer Jr was drinking with another man on his boat on the Magothy River in Pasadena around 7pm when his boat struck a smaller vessel with five children on board.

Four of the children were injured with one, a five year old girl, taken by helicopter to Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins Children’s Center.

Two adults on the boat were unharmed.

The smash was so severe that Dwyer’s boat sunk in the river.

Last September, for the first time in 17 years, LGBT troops no longer had to worry about being kicked out of the military because of sexuality. With the repeal of the policy 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' coming out as gay no longer derailed a military career.

This month,  as US military academies graduate midshipmen and cadets, future officers note not much has changed with open service.