Boston Edge

Ten years ago, Robert Saurer was fresh out of college and tossing a football around at home, wishing that he had a safe, comfortable environment where he could play football as an out gay man. On a whim, he placed an ad in

An LGBTQA Chicago Public Schools ( CPS ) high school has been proposed and, if given the green light, the school would join the likes of New York's Harvey Milk High School in becoming a national model in providing a welcoming, safe education for queer and questioning youth and their allies.

Even when states such as Massachusetts and California offer their residents marriage equality, when it comes to federal taxes gay families are still separate--and unequal.

A right-wing blogger claims that shelters for battered women not only originated with lesbian activists, but now serve as places where lesbians prey upon the vulnerable.

This month, the newly created Transgender Emergency Fund (TEF) will begin helping transgender and transsexual individuals pay their bills. After holding two fundraisers, TEF reached its original fundraising goal of $2500 and has begun accepting applications from individuals who are in need of financial help.

The assertion by a British GLBT equality activist that a venerated Catholic bishop may have been gay have religious conservatives crying "libel" and refuting the speculation.

A Cambodian transgender woman filed a complaint Wednesday with the Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal alleging that she suffered repeated sexual abuse at the hands of the communist group when it held power three decades ago.

John McCain supporters held back little Wednesday as they issued dismissive attacks on Barack Obama and flattering praise of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her credentials to be vice president. In some cases, the reproach and the praise stretched the truth.

Lou Maletta was the pioneer of gay cable TV. But thousands of hours of tapes covering everything from the first Gay Pride marches to Bette Midler singing at the baths, sits in a Midtown Manhattan office--and is deteriorating at an alarming pace.

Much praised "Tai Chi Easy" and Qigong instructor Rick Tousignant has found his life's purpose: working with the aging Baby Boomer population. His summer classes in the South End have been so successful he's continuing them into the fall. EDGE spoke with Tousignant about his classes and his goals.

Openly gay MA Rep. Barney Frank contends that Sarah Palin's family life is of interest to voters, given her party's stance on "family values."

The alleged killer of a college sophomore expressed no remorse when he spoke with his father and confronted the media, multiple news sources reported.

A New York State Supreme Court justice has ruled that NY Gov. David Paterson did not exceed his authority last May when he directed state agencies to recognize marriages granted to gay families elsewhere.

Barry Scott, the openly gay Lost 45s DJ who was convicted last month of disturbing the peace, resisting arrest and violation of a noise ordinance while spinning at a private party in Provincetown last summer, told Bay Windows he will file an emergency appeal within the next week to the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) asking to be allowed to interview one of the jurors who decided his case.

Fabio Brandao of Framingham pled not guilty to assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and civil rights violations in Boston Municipal Court yesterday. The charges stem from his involvement in an apparent gay bashing in Boston's South End in the early morning hours of Aug. 24.

The Log Cabin Republicans endorsed Arizona Sen. John McCain's bid for the presidency on Tuesday, four years after the gay Republican group refused to back President George W. Bush's bid for reelection.

A judge has thrown out the first direct legal challenge to the New York governor's move to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states, calling the policy a legally allowable stand for fairness.

A West Hollywood online news source in consultation with a crystal meth expert says that the reported level of the drug found in the blood of a dancer fatally shot by Harbor Police during a San Diego Pride event last month was nine times higher than the legal threshold for intoxication.

Schoolchildren in British Columbia are poised to learn about the social costs of bullying and homophobia thanks to a new high school elective and a classroom guide on diversity for that region's teachers.

Five years after openly gay U.S. Episcopalian clergyman V. Gene Robinson was named a bishop, a gay British clergyman may soon be nominated to become a bishop in Wales.