EDGE on the Net

Even though progress on LGBT issues on the federal level appears unlikely during the next Congress, activists remain confident they can score legislative gains at the state and municipal level in 2011.

When David Johndrow was looking to buy a hotel suite for use as a winter home in Park City, he had his pick of new luxury lodging: Montage Deer Valley, the St. Regis Deer Valley or the Waldorf Astoria Park City.

Forty-four percent of people in Utah agree with Mormon apostle Boyd K. Packer that it’s possible for homosexuality to be overcome, according to a statewide poll released Saturday.

Members of a GLBT equality group disrupted a debate between two Utah gubernatorial hopefuls on the evening of Oct. 19.

A gay-friendly Utah state senator who stepped in to finish the term of a fellow Democrat who left office early now faces an openly gay Republican opponent for his seat in the state’s legislative body. In a further twist, the Democrat who left office early was also gay.

A junior high student in Bountiful, Utah has laid the groundwork for a Gay-Straight Alliance at his school.

A Democratic Utah lawmaker is resigning to become the executive director of a gay rights group in South Carolina.

An openly lesbian member of the Utah House of Representatives says that she will be leaving state government come the end of this year.

The anti-gay Utah state senator who claimed that gays are "the biggest threat going down" to America has refused to say whether he plans to run for re-election in 2012, sparking retirement rumors.

Utah Rep. Christine Johnson (D-Salt Lake City) is carrying a baby for two gay men. Utah does not allow gay men to adopt, so this circumvents that law.