EDGE Seattle

Voters in the East Bay will once again have a chance to elect an out person to the state Assembly when they head to the polls in 2014.

The United States Postal Service will reportedly release a stamp featuring the late gay San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk in 2014. It would mark the first time a stamp has been issued specifically to honor an LGBT person.

From book readings to movie screenings, the Bay Area is marking the annual Harvey Milk Day with a variety of events this year.

Outspoken gay former Congressman Barney Frank was in San Francisco this week and told a gathering of the Commonwealth Club that while he won’t consider a presidential run, he predicted the U.S. could have a gay president in 20 years.

Del. Heather Mizeur (D-Montgomery), one of eight openly LGBT members of the Maryland General Assembly, stunned political observers Saturday by placing second in a straw poll of Western Maryland Democrats, demonstrating she could be a formidable candidate

Canada’s most populous province is getting its first female and openly gay premier, former education minister Kathleen Wynne.

The recent election of Brian Sims as Pennsylvania’s first out-gay representative is another example of the national sea change of LGBTs becoming involved in politics at all levels.

An Oregon woman will be the first openly lesbian lawmaker to lead a state legislative chamber in the U.S.

ormer Democratic state Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has been elected to represent a new Phoenix-area congressional district, which makes her the first openly bisexual member of Congress.

The nation spoke on Tuesday and made history by electing out Democratic politicians but not two openly gay members of the GOP: one running for mayor of San Diego; the other for Congress from Massachusetts.