David Rubin, a gay man and Superior Court judge in San Diego County, was unanimously confirmed and sworn in Friday as a justice for the Fourth District Court of Appeal after a hearing by the state Commission on Judicial Appointments.

The U.S. Senate this month confirmed a gay man to a federal district court seat in San Francisco — marking the first time an openly gay nominee has been appointed to the district court for what is often considered the world's gayest city.

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.

A potential compromise would keep PrEP covered by insurers and employers as a case that would overrule federal protection for HIV preventative care moves through the courts.

Attorneys are questioning the constitutionality of some of the anti-LGBTQ laws signed by Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis just before he launched his campaign for the GOP presidential nomination.

Patient groups have filed a statement with a federal court supporting a lawsuit seeking to overturn copay accumulator schemes; however, this suit comes as access to life-saving preventative HIV care faces an existential threat from a separate case.

The Justice Department on April 26 filed a complaint challenging Tennessee's Senate Bill 1, a recently enacted law that denies necessary medical care to youth based solely on who they are.

The escalating clash over the availability of a federal Food and Drug Administration-approved medication to terminate an early-stage pregnancy has significant implications for many LGBTQ people.

Governor Gavin Newsom has nominated two gay men to serve on the state's appellate courts and moved to elevate a lesbian appeal court justice to preside over her bench.

The first openly transgender bishop in a major Christian denomination in the United States has filed a federal lawsuit alleging he was demeaned, harassed, defamed, and eventually pushed out of the Lutheran Church's Sierra Pacific Synod.

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.

Associate Justice Kelli Evans is making history as the first queer woman of color to serve on California's highest court.

A trans woman is suing the University of the Pacific for alleged harassment and discrimination.

There were times during the U.S. Supreme Court's oral argument in this session's highly significant LGBTQ case when some listeners might have thought they were hearing a modern day dramatic interpretation of the Mad Hatter's Tea Party.