The Castro Merchants Association was founded by Castro Camera business owner Harvey Milk in 1974 in response to the anti-gay Eureka Valley Merchants Association.

Another Planet Entertainment has only itself to blame after a Board of Supervisors committee gave initial approval to an amendment that would require the Castro Theatre's orchestra seating to be fixed.

By nearly all accounts, Stefan Grygelko didn't really know what he was doing back when he created his now-legendary drag persona Heklina, on a whim in the early 1990s.

The White House's rollout last week of the Department of Education's proposed Title IX rule regarding trans student-athletes was clunky, to say the least.

Readers write to us about the Castro Theatre and a recent essay about the closure of gay bars.

Lesbian state Senate President pro Tempore Toni Atkins (D-San Diego) surprised many last week — including us — when she introduced legislation that would repeal California's law prohibiting publicly funded travel to states that have anti-LGBTQ laws.

There is nothing like spending two winters in Duluth, Minnesota to make one appreciate the San Francisco Bay Area and all that it has to offer.

This week, a reader takes issue with the paper's television columnist.

Ugandan lawmakers have passed a harsh anti-LGBTQ bill that President Yoweri Museveni has indicated he supports, and LGBTQ residents in the country are on edge.

This is the worst year in history for anti-trans and anti-drag legislation. Full stop.

Two gay Black men were killed in Oakland in the span of about nine days, and the East Bay city's LGBTQ community is on edge.

Over the past few years, the Alameda County Democratic Party has made significant progress on LGBTQ+ issues.

Readers weigh in on the Castro Theatre and a new gallery in the LGBTQ neighborhood.

In what has to be one of the most shameful outcomes by a Bay Area municipal body in recent years, the Concord City Council last week doled out $7 million in federal American Rescue Plan Act funds to nonprofits and not one dime went to an LGBTQ group.