http://www.EDGEonthenet.com Your life... with an EDGE. en-us 2013 EDGE PUBLICATIONS, INC. editor@edgepublications.com (Managing Editor) webmaster@edgepublications.com (Webmaster) Wed, 22 May 2013 22:54:19 -0400 http://www.EDGEonthenet.com/rss Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender/Kilian Melloy http://www.edgeedgeonthenet.com/?144476 http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=columnists&sc=kilianmelloy&sc2=4&sc3=&id=144476 What, pray tell, is a "professional homosexual?" And does working for a gay publication, singing for a gay choir, and being married to another man qualify? Your columnist reflects... Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:00 EST http://www.edgeedgeonthenet.com/?144491 http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=columnists&sc=kilianmelloy&sc2=4&sc3=&id=144491 After twenty-eight years of "living in sin," and nine years of legal marriage, the sky has yet to fall on this gay boy or the nation he calls home. So why the ongoing fuss and bother? Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 EST http://www.edgeedgeonthenet.com/?144489 http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=columnists&sc=kilianmelloy&sc2=4&sc3=&id=144489 For Mothers' Day: A word of thanks. Sun, 12 May 2013 00:00:00 EST http://www.edgeedgeonthenet.com/?144271 http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=columnists&sc=kilianmelloy&sc2=4&sc3=&id=144271 Take one smart guy and one stupid remark. Mix in some lightning fast media saturation and shake. It's a recipe for titillation, outrage, and (in some cases, at least) professional disaster. But can it also be culturally diagnostic? Mon, 06 May 2013 00:00:00 EST http://www.edgeedgeonthenet.com/?143886 http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=columnists&sc=kilianmelloy&sc2=4&sc3=&id=143886 A young couple's attitude toward marriage --A"God, no!" -- seems strange. But is it, really? And if "freedom to marry" means anything, doesn't it also mean the freedom not to marry? Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:00:00 EST http://www.edgeedgeonthenet.com/?143739 http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=columnists&sc=kilianmelloy&sc2=4&sc3=&id=143739 As authorities close in on Marathon bombing terror suspects, Boston-area communities are on lockdown and residents are advised to "shelter in place." What does all this mean in a larger sense? Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:00:00 EST http://www.edgeedgeonthenet.com/?143560 http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=national&sc2=news&sc3=&id=143560 An EDGE writer at the Boston Marathon offers an account of the confusion, the anger, and the sadness near ground zero on a day of unpardonable and vicious terror. Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:00:00 EST http://www.edgeedgeonthenet.com/?143182 http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=columnists&sc=kilianmelloy&sc2=4&sc3=&id=143182 You're invited to a private viewing of art sadly lost -- stencil graffiti that once covered the walls along Strasbourg's narrow, winding streets. The city fathers elected to cover over the trove of outlaw art, but all is not lost. These images survive. Tue, 02 Apr 2013 00:00:00 EST http://www.edgeedgeonthenet.com/?142940 http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=columnists&sc=kilianmelloy&sc2=4&sc3=&id=142940 As Day Two dawns of the Supreme Court's hearings on a pair of cases affecting GLBT Americans and their families, your columnist is already sick of the whole thing -- and of living in the peanut gallery. Wed, 27 Mar 2013 00:00:00 EST http://www.edgeedgeonthenet.com/?142768 http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=columnists&sc=kilianmelloy&sc2=4&sc3=&id=142768 This is the real deal: Laughter, tears, community, song. The Boston Gay Men's Chorus seizes the day this weekend, even as the nation prepares to hear what the highest court in the land will have to say about our family rights. Thu, 21 Mar 2013 00:00:00 EST http://www.edgeedgeonthenet.com/?142222 http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=columnists&sc=kilianmelloy&sc2=4&sc3=&id=142222 "Government right now is functioning on the cutting edge -- of 1973," Gavin Newsom writes in his new book. The former mayor of San Francisco has ideas for making government responsive, and responsible. Will they work? Mon, 04 Mar 2013 00:00:00 EST http://www.edgeedgeonthenet.com/?141948 http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=columnists&sc=kilianmelloy&sc2=4&sc3=&id=141948 Your intrepid columnist snarks about the Oscars live from his living room, where, in fact, there is a red carpet (but no Prada). Sun, 24 Feb 2013 00:00:00 EST http://www.edgeedgeonthenet.com/?140320 http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=columnists&sc=kilianmelloy&sc2=4&sc3=&id=140320 A new year. An old photograph. A sense of family rediscovered. Fri, 04 Jan 2013 00:00:00 EST http://www.edgeedgeonthenet.com/?140091 http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=columnists&sc=kilianmelloy&sc2=4&sc3=&id=140091 It's the end of the world! Or... maybe not. Your columnist keeps one eye on the skies, the other on the clock, and reports in at regular intervals. Sat, 22 Dec 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.edgeedgeonthenet.com/?139962 http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=columnists&sc=kilianmelloy&sc2=4&sc3=&id=139962 If you're going to see, or have seen, Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit," you may be about to experience (or already have) the latest improvement in how movies are made and shown. Is it a new milestone, or an ill-advised blip? Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.edgeedgeonthenet.com/?139738 http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=columnists&sc=kilianmelloy&sc2=4&sc3=&id=139738 Whatever mainstream movies Oscar graces next year, your columnist submits this short list as 2012's unmissable essentials for GLBT cinema -- For Your Consideration. Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.edgeedgeonthenet.com/?139273 http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=columnists&sc=kilianmelloy&sc2=4&sc3=&id=139273 Home, hearth, and coming out. Why, they all go together, don't they? Your columnist recollects the start of a unique holiday season 28 years ago... and the start of a lifetime partnership. Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.edgeedgeonthenet.com/?139111 http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=columnists&sc=kilianmelloy&sc2=4&sc3=&id=139111 It seems like every time the Republicans lose big, two things happen: The rightward fringe go into paroxysms trying to pin the blame anywhere but on their own extreme ideology, and everyone else starts fretting that the GOP is circling the drain. Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.edgeedgeonthenet.com/?138770 http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=columnists&sc=kilianmelloy&sc2=4&sc3=&id=138770 Big money poured hundreds of millions, if not billions, into this year's presidential election, only to come up with a big fat NO SALE. The message is plain as the new day: This nation's highest office is not up for the highest bidder. Wed, 07 Nov 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.edgeedgeonthenet.com/?138656 http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=columnists&sc=kilianmelloy&sc2=4&sc3=&id=138656 A fraction of America votes today. If you don't speak up at the ballot box on Nov. 6, then please do us all a favor and keep the complaints to yourself until 2016. Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:00:00 EST