EDGE Dallas

Uganda’s LGBT citizen held the country’s first Gay Pride Parade - especially brave & encouraging because the African nation is one of the most homophobic in the world.

Fireplace sports hip-hop music and a hip black crowd in its neighborhood atmosphere. EDGE dropped in this week to catch the fun; here are the photos!

A number of Africa’s countries have little or no gay rights. Uganda’s parliament recently reintroduced an anti-gay bill that calls for the death penalty if two men are caught in the act. Swaziland, however, is encouraging its gays to get tested for HIV.

The Spartacus International Gay Guide may be one of those rare books that you’ll actually want to judge by its cover. Gracing the 2011-2012 edition’s jacket is the handsome Eliad Cohen - with a forest of chest fur.

The NAACP’s newly revived Worcester chapter elected a 28-year-old openly gay black man as its president this month.

The Rev. Peter Gomes was a rare mixture of things: a gay African American man of the cloth who was until just a few years ago a registered Republican.