California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara, the first LGBTQ person to win election to statewide office in the Golden State, officially declared Friday his intention to seek a second four-year term in 2022.

Surrounded by LGBTQ community leaders and several supervisors, Honey Mahogany Thursday kicked off her bid to become the first transgender and first Black chair of the San Francisco Democratic Party at the Tenderloin site of the Compton's Cafeteria riot.

President Joe Biden urged Congress to pass the Equality Act and told transgender youth that he has their back during his first speech before a joint session of Congress.

As more Republican-controlled statehouses across the U.S. adopt anti-LGBTQ laws, the number of states California bans taxpayer-funded travel to should continue to increase

A year after becoming the first non-male identified transgender person elected to the body that oversees the San Francisco Democratic Party, Honey Mahogany is now aiming to become its first transgender chair and first drag queen to lead the local party.

Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert blasted newly-sworn-in state Attorney General Rob Bonta and San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin as she announced her candidacy for the position of California's chief law enforcement officer.

California senators will take up a bill allowing for the option of nonbinary as the gender identity on death certificates now that their Assembly colleagues have approved the legislation.

Transgender former Olympian Caitlyn Jenner announces her bid to be California governor not by selling solutions but merchandise.

It has been 15 years since the LGBTQ community in San Jose has had out representation on the city's governing body. During that time three gay men and one lesbian have mounted unsuccessful bids to win council seats.

A number of Californians are among the inaugural class being inducted into the LGBTQ Hall of Fame May 2 by the LGBTQ Victory Institute.

In his conversations with potential donors Eric Curry has been referred to as the "underdog" candidate and the less polite "unlikely" candidate running for San Francisco's 12th Congressional District seat covering much of the city.

Equality California has named its managing director, Tony Hoang, as its first Asian American executive director.

A Japantown site has become only the second local historic property related to San Francisco's Japanese community and the fifth having to do with the LGBTQ community to be recognized as a city landmark.

Hours prior to her likely being rejected by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors at its meeting Tuesday, Historic Preservation Commission mayoral appointee Christina Dikas withdrew her nomination.