http://www.EDGEpublications.com Your life... with an EDGE. en-us 2009 EDGE PUBLICATIONS, INC. editor@edgepublications.com (Managing Editor) webmaster@edgepublications.com (Webmaster) Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:00:01 -0400 http://www.EDGEnewyork.com/rss Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender News http://www.edgeonthenet.com/?103426http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=103426South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu speaks forcefully for gay rights. In person, he is as amazing as his writing on behalf of the oppressed everywhere.Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:00:00 ESThttp://www.edgeonthenet.com/?103365http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=103365Two Fenway Institute researchers appointed to new National Academies' Institute of Medicine committee.Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 ESThttp://www.edgeonthenet.com/?103411http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=103411The Oklahoma state senate has approved a bill that would allow the state to "opt out" of the first federal law to extend hate crimes protections to LGBTs.Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 ESThttp://www.edgeonthenet.com/?103403http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=103403Flamboyant figure skater Johnny Weir will not be included in the Stars in Ice Tour, a March 11 Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation blog posting said. The reason? Weir is "not family friendly."Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 ESThttp://www.edgeonthenet.com/?103400http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=103400The case against the defendants in a trial stemming from a gay bar raid last summer in Atlanta has ended with the acquittals of all eight defendants.Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 ESThttp://www.edgeonthenet.com/?103368http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=103368Did Marie Osmond's son kill himself because of anti-gay messages from the Mormon Church? Roseanne Barr wants to know.Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 ESThttp://www.edgeonthenet.com/?103341http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=103341Eric Massa, the Democratic Congressman who resigned his seat in the House amid allegations that he groped several male staffers, says that he's the target of a plot to pass President Obama's health care plan at any cost--a claim that has made him, according to some media outlets, a darling to the conservative right.Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 ESThttp://www.edgeonthenet.com/?103329http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=103329A new analysis from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention reaffirms previously studies that show that younger MSMs (men who have sex with men), which includes gay and bisexual men, are particularly hard-hit by STDs like HIV and syphilis.Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 ESThttp://www.edgeonthenet.com/?103324http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=103324The Revs. Robert Hardies of All Souls Unitarian Church and the Revs. Dennis and Christine Wiley of the Covenant Baptist Church played leading roles in the effort to secure marriage for gays and lesbians in the District of Columbia.Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 ESThttp://www.edgeonthenet.com/?103305http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=103305State Sen. Bill Brady's nomination comes on the heels of his proposal that would have amended Illinois' Human Rights Act to allow certain religious institutions to opt-out of the law.Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 ESThttp://www.edgeonthenet.com/?103283http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=103283In what the media has labeled a "bias attack," five men assaulted a lone 22-year-old victim in the Carroll Gardens section of Brooklyn, a gentrified Brooklyn neighborhood.Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 ESThttp://www.edgeonthenet.com/?103276http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=103276After his arrest for drunk driving (reportedly after leaving a gay club, a male passenger in his car), and the public admission of what was evidently an open secret--his homosexuality--will California State Sen. Roy Ashburn be reviled? Will he become an advocate for GLBT causes? Will he fade into oblivion?Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 ESThttp://www.edgeonthenet.com/?103272http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=103272A British cleric's "flippant" anti-marriage equality remark during a sermon ruffled feathers among parishoners and GLBT equality advocates alike.Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 ESThttp://www.edgeonthenet.com/?103259http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=features&sc3=&id=103259Houston's historic election of a lesbian mayor brings up the question of whether a place not before known as a gay Mecca can be marketed that way? The city's tourism board thinks so - as do other newly gay-friendly cities.Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 ESThttp://www.edgeonthenet.com/?103250http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=103250They may not be seen as sexy, but condoms can save lives by preventing the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The state of California is considering making it a matter of law for actors in adult movies to use condoms for their on-screen sex scenes.Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 ESThttp://www.edgeonthenet.com/?103248http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=103248Locked in a tight race with arch-rival Marco Rubio, Charlie Crist has accused him of getting his back waxed -Aan odd charge coming from mucho metrosexual Crist.Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 ESThttp://www.edgeonthenet.com/?103241http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=103241Hiram Monserrate may have become the first New York state senator to be kicked out of that not-so-august body since the 1920s on ethical violations in the wake of a domestic abuse episode, but supporters of his bid to re-take a special election prefer violence against women to marriage equality.Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 ESThttp://www.edgeonthenet.com/?103237http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=103237Facing a firestorm of criticism for refusing to allow the child of a lesbian couple to return to parochial preschool next year, the Denver Archdiocese has responded with a statement to the effect that the child's exclusion is the fault of his mothers--for being a committed same-sex couple.Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 ESThttp://www.edgeonthenet.com/?103214http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=103214Roy Ashburn, the California state senator (and divorced father of four kids) who was caught driving drunk with a man as he was leaving a Sacramento gay bar, has come out - but says he will continue his homophobic voting record.Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 ESThttp://www.edgeonthenet.com/?103213http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=103213The trial of the man who prosecutors contend brutally murdered Jorge Steven LApez Mercado last November had been scheduled to begin in Caguas on March 30, but a judge has postponed it until April 14.Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST