Rebecca Parson is running to be the first LGBTQ member of Congress from Washington state.

Although both San Francisco and the state of New York declared public health emergencies July 28 to help contain the spread of monkeypox, California will not be doing so, as yet.

A Southern California man appears to be cured of HIV after undergoing a stem cell transplant to treat leukemia, researchers reported this week at the International AIDS Conference in Montreal.

President Joe Biden has nominated a gay California state superior court judge to the federal bench.

San Francisco officials have declared a state of emergency to help handle the quickly growing monkeypox outbreak.

Of the five LGBTQ San Francisco supervisor candidates on the November ballot, two received sole endorsements from the local Democratic Party.

California Senator Scott Wiener is calling on health officials in the state to declare a monkeypox state of emergency.

After a two-year hiatus thanks to COVID-19, Up Your Alley, aka Dore Alley, is returning.

One of the biggest challenges Kate Stoia faces as she runs for San Francisco's District 8 supervisor seat this fall is explaining why someone who is not LGBTQ themselves should be elected to it.

LGBTQ advocates say it is time for San Francisco leaders to revisit and update the citywide LGBTQ+ Cultural Heritage Strategy.

World Health Organization director-general Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared July 23 that monkeypox is a public health emergency of international concern — the global agency's highest level of alarm — as cases continue to rise steeply.

A proposal to allow the San Francisco Police Department to make use of non-city owned surveillance cameras had its third hearing by the Board of Supervisors' Rules Committee Monday, and there will be a fourth meeting in September.

Top Russian tennis star Daria Kasatkina came out as a lesbian in a July 18 interview with a Russian vlogger.

Two Oakland city councilmembers have authored a resolution calling on state lawmakers to bring to the voters a repeal of California's 'zombie' same-sex marriage ban known as Proposition 8.