EDGE New England

A gay man in Kansas City, Mo., was arrested after he refused to leave his partner’s hospital bedside.

A teenager from Missouri is being charged as an adult for viciously beating a lesbian last month. The 17-year-old allegedly harassed the woman for weeks before finally attacking her on her front porch.

An anti-gay bill similar to Tennessee’s "Don’t Say Gay" Bill recently advanced to an education committee in Missouri

A judge has ruled that a Missouri school district must replace its Internet filter because it blocks several pro-gay websites but allows students to access anti-gay pages.

Prosecutors have charged Willie Bishop, 20, of O’Fallon, Mo., with knowingly and recklessly infecting another person with HIV after he allegedly bit a police officer earlier this month. HIV/AIDS activists maintain these statutes, which are on the books in 34 states, actually hinder their efforts to combat the virus.

The ACLU has taken up the case of Corporal Dennis Engelhard’s same-sex partner in a challenge to the Missouri policy that excludes gay spouses from receiving benefits when state police are killed in the line of duty.

An GLBT history activist has discovered that a heartland American town served as an urban destination for lesbians in the 1970s.

A Missouri Highway Patrol Corporal killed on Christmas Day as he responded to a traffic accident was reported in local press as "not married and had no children." The untold story: his life partner, another man, who was left with no access to spousal benefits.

Thanks in large part to federal tax credits that flowed after Hurricane Katrina, Jackson, Missouri’s blighted King Edward Hotel has been fully reworked with chandeliers and champagne-colored walls into a gleaming centerpiece of urban renewal.

A former Missouri lawmaker was charged Dec. 7 with felony assault in connection with an S/M encounter in which the safe words--"green balloons"--were not uttered as he allegedly struck and choked his female partner.