The only thing worse than a bad ruling at the U.S. Supreme Court is a poor decision that sets up the prospect that the worst is yet to come.

The federal government told the SF Board of Supervisors last month it's deferring to the judgment of the California Attorney General's office regarding an inquiry into San Francisco DA Brooke Jenkins' decision not to prosecute the killer of Banko Brown.

There is a clear path to ending AIDS, and some countries have made great strides, according to the latest UNAIDS update released July 13 ahead of the International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Science in Brisbane, Australia.

Following this year's homophobic outcry against Pride merchandise being available at Target, seven red state attorneys general sent a letter to the department store chain alleging the sales may violate child protection and obscenity laws.

The 10 contests for West Coast House races in 2024 with LGBTQ candidates that the Bay Area Reporter is already tracking feature a number of rematches and several newcomers seeking to serve in Congress.

Even as the policy is being eyed for repeal this year, California's ban on state-funded travel to states with anti-LGBTQ laws is expanding.

Award-winning Russian investigative journalist Elena Milashina and civil rights lawyer Alexander Nemov were brutally attacked in Grozny, Chechnya's capital, earlier this month while on their way to the trial of a human rights activist.

The city committee that oversees San Francisco street closures approved most of Lesbians Who Tech's proposed Castro neighborhood plans for its mid-October confab — with one major exception.

San Francisco Police Chief William Scott promised a detailed presentation at next week's Police Commission meeting on the mass arrest of teenagers during what law enforcement characterized as a "riot" following chaos at the annual Dolores "hill bomb."

A repeal measure of language defining marriage as between a man and a woman embedded in the state constitution will go before California voters in 2024.

A Castro neighborhood bar that'd been closed for years will be reopening in September after it passed its final inspection.

The historic appointment of San Francisco's first — and so far only — Latina lesbian supervisor was put in motion after then-President Bill Clinton nominated another lesbian supervisor, Roberta Achtenberg, to a top administration post in 1993.

Sommeliers and friends Cara Patricia and Simi Grewal opened their wine bar and shop DECANTsf in San Francisco's South of Market district on May 1, 2019.

The federal courts have given preliminary victories to the drag community in recent weeks in separate lawsuits against a Utah city and the state of Florida where judges ruled their anti-drag moves violate the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.