EDGE on the Net

The New York City Anti Violence Project and LGBT Center announced via social media yesterday that a rally and Community Safety Night will be held next week in response to the recent ash of anti-gay violence.

Gay Seattle man Ronald Bentley Main died last week after a Feb. 24 attack inside his Chapala, Mexico home. Friends remember the real-estate agent and former president of the LGBT chamber of commerce as a kind and gregarious man.

Boston’s LGBT community came together on Sunday at the State House to honor the 265 transgender men and women killed in bias crimes this year across the world, as part of the Transgender Day of Remembrance.

A 22-year-old Montana man says he was attacked outside of a nightclub on his birthday because he is gay.

LGBT groups from Western Colorado recently met to discuss hate crimes after a lesbian was allegedly viciously assaulted by a Colorado Mesa University football player.

A Boston gay man was allegedly attacked at a subway station by a group of teenage girls because he is gay. But the girls claim they can’t be homophobic because they’re lesbians.

A video of an Atlanta gang attacking a 20-year-old gay male recently went viral. The victim, Brandon White, held a news conference speaking out about the incident and called his assaulters "monsters."

Wendelinus Hamutenya recently won the Mr. Gay Namibia contest, which made him the first black African to enter Mr. Gay World. Shortly after his win, however, the 25-year-old was brutally beaten by two men.

A high court judge on Thursday handed down the sentence to 22-year-old Sidney Nsubuga Enoch, who admitted that he bludgeoned David Kato to death with a hammer in January.

Anti-gay bullying reared its head in particularly ugly fashion at an Ohio high school on Oct. 17, when a student lay in wait, then viciously pummeled a gay classmate while other teens looked on and did nothing to stop the attack.