http://www.EDGEonthenet.com Your life... with an EDGE. en-us 2013 EDGE PUBLICATIONS, INC. editor@edgepublications.com (Managing Editor) webmaster@edgepublications.com (Webmaster) Sat, 25 May 2013 00:23:25 -0400 http://www.EDGEonthenet.com/rss Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender/Grinding the Edge http://www.edgeedgeonthenet.com/?143322 http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=columnists&sc=grindingtheedge&sc2=4&sc3=&id=143322 The way the administration at Rutgers University handed the video showing extensive use of homophobic epithets shows a school in deep denial about a pervasive problem. Sun, 07 Apr 2013 00:00:00 EST http://www.edgeedgeonthenet.com/?143061 http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=columnists&sc=grindingtheedge&sc2=4&sc3=&id=143061 Activists & pundits of traditional marriage and marriage equality have found common ground on one thing: Attorney Charles Cooper was badly outgunned by marriage-equality's All-Star line-up of David Boies and Ted Olson. Fri, 29 Mar 2013 00:00:00 EST http://www.edgeedgeonthenet.com/?142937 http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=columnists&sc=grindingtheedge&sc2=4&sc3=&id=142937 Once again, gossip website Gawker's gay correspondent pays his first visit to this internationally famous New York mega-dance event. And once again, he doesn't get it. Tue, 26 Mar 2013 00:00:00 EST http://www.edgeedgeonthenet.com/?142409 http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=columnists&sc=grindingtheedge&sc2=4&sc3=&id=142409 A group calling for a massive demonstration outside the Supreme Court to support two landmark marriage-equality cases goes against the principle that the court shouldn't be influenced by public opinion. Mon, 11 Mar 2013 00:00:00 EST http://www.edgeedgeonthenet.com/?141929 http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=columnists&sc=grindingtheedge&sc2=4&sc3=&id=141929 The only scandal about the revelation that a gay sex scandal in the Vatican may have prompted Pope Benedict to resign is that anyone is shocked. Sat, 23 Feb 2013 00:00:00 EST http://www.edgeedgeonthenet.com/?140621 http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=columnists&sc=grindingtheedge&sc2=4&sc3=&id=140621 Just when we were all taking coming out for granted, the actress' acceptance speech of a lifetime award at the Golden Globes has everyone talking once again about the act of coming out. Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:00:00 EST http://www.edgeedgeonthenet.com/?138160 http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=columnists&sc=grindingtheedge&sc2=4&sc3=&id=138160 Newsweek jumped the shark in 2010 with an article about how, once a gay actor comes out, he can't be romancing a woman anymore - the first but not worst of Editor Tina Brown's philosophy that creating 'buzz' trumps rational discourse or real journalism. Fri, 19 Oct 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.edgeedgeonthenet.com/?138048 http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=columnists&sc=grindingtheedge&sc2=4&sc3=&id=138048 Ann Coulter's tweet about 'disown your son' day was meant to make fun of people rejecting gay children. Yes, she's odious, but it was funny. Let's be fair & lighten up. Tue, 16 Oct 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.edgeedgeonthenet.com/?137038 http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=columnists&sc=grindingtheedge&sc2=4&sc3=&id=137038 The Grand Old Party is, indeed, the party of "old" but not so grand. The only way to get nominated is to cater to the far-right primary voters, while the rest of the country has moved away from ignorance about issues such as gay rights. Mon, 17 Sep 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.edgeedgeonthenet.com/?135350 http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=columnists&sc=grindingtheedge&sc2=4&sc3=&id=135350 Boston Mayor Thomas Menino has promised to block a Chick-Fil-A franchise in his city because of the owner's anti marriage-equality statements & donations. We should oppose such tactics because this is a slippery slope that works both ways. Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.edgeedgeonthenet.com/?131808 http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=columnists&sc=grindingtheedge&sc2=4&sc3=&id=131808 Some gay activists & liberal columnists criticize the judge and jury that gave Dharun Ravi a possible 10 years in jail and deportation to his native India. Ravi secretly webcammed a meeting of a man & his gay roommate, who soon after committed suicide. Mon, 09 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.edgeedgeonthenet.com/?131035 http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=columnists&sc=grindingtheedge&sc2=4&sc3=&id=131035 The media firestorm behind coverage of the guilty verdict in the trial of the man who webcammed his gay roommate entertaining another man (and then, when found out, committed suicide) points more to tech than gay issues. Fri, 16 Mar 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.edgeedgeonthenet.com/?130378 http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=columnists&sc=grindingtheedge&sc2=4&sc3=&id=130378 Christopher Plummer's Oscar for an obscure film points up, once again, that the easiest way to win is to play gay, disabled (physically or mentally). Or, for the best odds of all, both. Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.edgeedgeonthenet.com/?129692 http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=columnists&sc=grindingtheedge&sc2=4&sc3=&id=129692 When the Human Rights Campaign decided to honor investment banking giant Goldman Sachs & make its chair a spokesperson for gay marriage, activists protested the firm's ruthless banking practices. But any corporation on our side deserves credit. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.edgeedgeonthenet.com/?129258 http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=columnists&sc=grindingtheedge&sc2=4&sc3=&id=129258 Remember all that hoopla about Bill Clinton being our 'first black president'? Six reasons why a GOP hopeful may be our first 'gay president. Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.edgeedgeonthenet.com/?129106 http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=columnists&sc=grindingtheedge&sc2=4&sc3=&id=129106 One thing we've learned from the farce known as a race to the GOP presidential nomination: the more a candidate blathers about morality, the more of a cheating scum he is . The race has thus turned into a remake of 'The Women.' Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.edgeedgeonthenet.com/?127048 http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=columnists&sc=grindingtheedge&sc2=4&sc3=&id=127048 There's a story - apocryphal, I'm sure - that at a dinner party many years ago, someone asked an editor at the New York Times why the paper had a bureau in Nairobi but not in the Bronx. "Because," he dryly replied, "we have readers in Nairobi." Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST http://www.edgeedgeonthenet.com/?109316 http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=columnists&sc=grindingtheedge&sc2=4&sc3=&id=109316 Fox News host Greg Gutfeld may have been facetious when he proposed a gay bar next to the proposed mosque in Lower Manhattan, but it's actually a great idea! Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.edgeedgeonthenet.com/?107346 http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=columnists&sc=grindingtheedge&sc2=4&sc3=&id=107346 In all of the dissection of the monumental Greenwich Village riots that sparked the modern gay-rights movement, the misery of late June in New York City can't be discounted. Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.edgeedgeonthenet.com/?105749 http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=columnists&sc=grindingtheedge&sc2=4&sc3=&id=105749 The author's response to the unanimous outpouring of derision for his ridiculous assertion that out-gay actors aren't believable in straight roles has only cemented the opinion that he is in way over his head. Mon, 17 May 2010 00:00:00 EST