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Light Brigade Maryland (established June 21012)

Is a grassroots community activist organization. The group uses lighted panels at dusk on highway over passes and various other locations to communicate an activist message. The messages have changed from time to time, but the original intention was to bring attention to the Maryland referendum Question 6 (on the November 6, 2012 ballot) to encourage a "for" vote which would protect the establishment of the Civil Marriage Protection Act. This Act grants gay and lesbian couples the right to marry in the state of Maryland.

Mark Patro is the founding lead organizer of Light Brigade Maryland. Mark had been and continues to be a community activist with PFLAG Baltimore County (Parents, Family & Friends of Lesbians & Gays), Equality Maryland and GLCCB (the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender & Queer Community Center in Baltimore, Maryland) before the establishment of Light Brigade Maryland. Mark is also a member of the Moving Maryland Forward Network.

Using Facebook as an organizing tool the first event was scheduled with only 16 people "liking" the Light Brigade Maryland's Facebook page. By the time the Question 6 referendum passed on November The group had 733 followers.