EDGE New England

A crowded field of New York City mayoral candidates faced off at Baruch College in an LGBT forum.

Openly gay Washington State Sen. Ed Murray announced his plans to run for Mayor of Seattle, forming an exploratory committee to investigate his options.

After being ruled by conservatives for a decade, voters in Sicily, Italy, elected an openly gay man who has been threatened by the Mafia for his opposition to the powerful underground crime organization.

Bruce Harris recently became the mayor of Chatham, N.J., and is believed to be the nation’s first African-American, openly gay Republican mayor.

Voters in Kentucky’s second-largest city selected an openly gay candidate to serve as mayor.

The youngest mayor in Britain is only 23--and he’s a gay man. Perhaps more surprisingly, the nomination of openly gay Ian Campbell to the office of mayor of Retford, England--a former mining town--came from the local council, which is dominated by conservatives.

The California town of Sierra Madre, population about 10,000, has its first gay mayor--but neither he nor many others see it as a big deal.