EDGE on the Net

More than 900 people gathered at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on Feb. 2 for HRC’s Make Equality Count Greater New York Gala Dinner, honoring Whoopi Goldberg with the Ally for Equality award.

President Obama thanked Terry Bean at a fundraiser in Portland, Ore., this week. Bean, an LGBT philanthropist who founded HRC and other groups, has been called a "gay-porn kingpin" by the New York Post.

A recent analysis from CNN shows that one in every 16 of President Obama’s major financial donors is openly gay.

The Matthew Shepard Foundation is among only 25 U.S. charities chosen to compete for grants ranging from $125,000 to $1 million through the American Giving Awards, presented by Chase.

Candidates in some top political races are raising big sums of money using software that taps donors’ social networks, an endeavor that lets the donors track their friends’ donations with the zeal a fantasy baseball team owner uses to monitor player statistics.

A fundraiser for Democratic Congressional candidate Francine Busby, hosted by a lesbian couple in a town outside San Diego, was the site of alleged police brutality on June 26.