EDGE Philadelphia

Out actress Meredith Baxter was the keynote speaker for Affair of the Heart, Dallas’ 31st Black Tie Dinner, raising charity funds for the Human Rights Campaign and 18 local charities.

The newly formed Boston-based Equality Fund has just received a $250,000 donation from the Boston Foundation, which will help to kick start giving for the permanent LGBTQ community fund.

Religious scholar Jay Michaelson chats with EDGE about his book "God vs. Gay?," the Word of God, and the slow, but steady, progress that LGBTs are making even among some of the most virulently anti-gay faith traditions.

The Human Rights Campaign issued a guide to help consumersshop at businesses that support LGBT equality, with some surprises: Nike & Nordstrom: OK. Adidas/Reebok & Neiman Marcus? Not so good.

For the GOP slate of presidential contenders, the meat of the matter when it comes to GLBT equality isn’t equality at all. It’s meat, in the rudest and crudest sexual sense.

Senate Democrats who back gay marriage have decided now is the time to repeal a federal law defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman. The Democrats may satisfy their gay marriage supporters, but the bill won’t get very far.

The lifelong ban on gay men donating blood has been lifted in Great Britain, numerous news sites reported. In its place is a requirement that men who have sex with men wait for one year after a same-sex encounter to donate blood.

Police ordered gay rights activists in Muslim-majority Malaysia on Thursday to scrap an annual arts festival aimed at fighting discrimination.

The students of Patrick Henry High School in San Diego have named two young women, a lesbian couple, to the posts of Homecoming King and Queen.

The Senate Judiciary Committee is poised to take up a bill that would extend "Respect" to all American families--and repeal the anti-gay law form 1996 that forbids any federal level recognition of same-sex couples.