As she faces a tough election battle this year to become a senator in her home state, transgender Virginia Delegate Danica Roem will be in San Francisco this weekend to meet with local LGBTQ leaders and raise money for her campaign.
The 2024 legislative races are shaping up to be a record year for LGBTQ candidates in California, with at least 24 out contenders already pulling papers to seek Assembly or Senate seats in the Statehouse.
It was both a celebration and a call to action at the Alice B. Toklas LGBTQ Democratic Club's annual Pride breakfast June 25 as speakers touched on the community's victories but remained cognizant of the current backlash underway.
Yes, Jon Lovett has seen the media headlines about San Francisco's descent into an ever-worsening "doom loop." No, it doesn't make him afraid to visit the City-by-the-Bay.
A judicial review panel in the coming weeks is expected to confirm two gay men to serve on the state's appellate courts and elevate a lesbian appeals court justice to preside over her bench.
Wanting to live closer to where they both worked, Jovanka Beckles and her wife, Nicole Valentino, left Alameda in 2005 for Richmond, California, where they could afford to buy a home for themselves and their then teenage son, Lucio Valentino.
With the start of Pride Month has come a concerted effort to see that the homophobic legacy of the 2008 same-sex marriage ban Proposition 8 be fully erased from the California Constitution.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is set to back the effort to repeal Proposition 8's "zombie language" from the California Constitution at its June 13 meeting.
Should Justine Gonzalez win her bid next year for a Los Angeles Assembly seat, she could be one of the first transgender members of the California Legislature and one of the first bisexual women to serve in Sacramento.
Pride-themed merchandise has always been political. LGBTQ activists have denounced such products sold by corporations as pink-washing over their lack of supportive policies for their LGBTQ employees.
