EDGE on the Net

GreatNonprofits, the leading provider of user reviews about nonprofit organizations, has honored the anti-bullying group Free2Luv with a prestigious 2012 Top-Rated Award.

GLAAD announced that all six major pro sports leagues would wear purple on Spirit Day, an annual event to bring awareness about anti-gay bullying. Many musicians, actors and personalities also participated.

Discussing the inroads made in politics, media, athletics, and the corporate arena, luminaries from across the LGBTQ experience met under one roof in New York City for the third annual StraightTalk Conference on October 12-14.

It wasn’t enough that many of us had to endure incessant bullying when we were growing up; now researchers are finding that the effects last well into adulthood. But you can fight the effects -- by standing up for yourself & others.

In the euphoria over recent marriage-equality wins, have we forgotten equally important issues?

A 14-year-old student from Brooklyn is blind in one eye after two bullies viciously attacked him and shouted anti-gay slurs at him.

Parents from New Jersey are suing an elementary school for not doing enough to stop anti-gay bullying against their son who is not gay.

Christian groups like Family Research Council claim anti-bullying legislation & school programs promote homosexuality & counter-productive. They claim it’s Christians who are being bullied. But they are facing opposition from liberal & gay rights groups.

Parents of a Tampa Area teen who tried to take his own life a year ago are claiming that anti-gay bullying was the cause for the suicide attempt. They also say school officials did not do enough to prevent the harassment from occurring.

An Indiana gay teen who received media attention for being expelled for bringing a stun gun to school, was allegedly assaulted at a local mall by a 34-year-old man.