A mayoral appointee to the San Francisco Historic Preservation Commission was rejected Tuesday by a majority of the city's supervisors, who cited her lack of qualifications to serve in the historian seat on the oversight body as the reason.

San Francisco supervisors are facing calls to reject a mayoral appointee to the city's Historic Preservation Commission over questions about her qualifications to serve in a seat designated for a historian.

For more than a decade California's courts have been required to release sexual orientation and gender identity demographic data on judges in an effort to help diversify the bench.

The president of a group for LGBTQ Republicans has come out in opposition to changing the name of a San Francisco park site that honors the city's last GOP leader to be elected mayor.

San Francisco supervisors have pushed back a vote to ax San Francisco's ban on city agencies doing business with companies headquartered in states that have adopted anti-LGBTQ laws, abortion bans, or restricted voting access in recent years.

A former Republican member of the California Assembly who had the best voting record in 2022 on LGBTQ bills among her GOP colleagues is vying to return to Sacramento next year.

Vallejo's new gay City Council member is aiming to address teen smoking in his Solano County city this year.

U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein — who took office as San Francisco mayor in 1978 the day the late mayor George Moscone and supervisor Harvey Milk were assassinated — announced Tuesday she doesn't intend to seek another term in the Senate next year.

Some LGBTQ and civil liberties groups are sounding the alarm about bipartisan federal legislation intended to protect minors online, which they say will empower Republican-led state governments to clamp down on freedom of speech.

A controversial proposal that San Francisco end its contracting ban with companies headquartered in states that have adopted anti-LGBTQ laws, abortion bans, or restricted voting access in recent years will soon be taken up by the Board of Supervisors.

Mayor London Breed made downtown revitalization a key part of her State of the City address in the city's Dogpatch neighborhood midday Thursday, in a defiant address where she said San Francisco has seen tough times before, yet has always survived.

Providing a video tour of her Sacramento office via Twitter in early January, lesbian state Senator Caroline Menjivar (D-San Fernando Valley) showed off the entry area and shared workspace for her staff.

LGBTQ civil rights groups and drag artists are sounding the alarm about bills in three states that if they became law would restrict drag performances.

A group of Democratic U.S. senators is calling for better data about the number of LGBTQ people employed among the country's scientific workforce.