Due to overwhelming demand, organizers of the upcoming memorial for drag icon Heklina have announced that San Francisco's Castro Street will be closed Tuesday, May 23, and the service projected onto screens outside so that more people can watch it.

The state's auditor has faulted the California Department of Public Health for being sclerotic with its efforts to collect LGBTQ demographics and criticized the agency for having inconsistent policies.

Vallejo officials are moving to enact a tobacco retail license ordinance as the next step in its yearslong battle against the use of the addictive product that can have fatal health consequences for users.

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.

San Francisco's public health community continues to urge people to get vaccinated for mpox after a federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report concluded that the United States may see a worse outbreak of the disease this year than in 2022.

Legal professionals in the LGBTQI+ community will take the stage at Oasis Saturday, April 29, for "Legalize Drag," a fundraiser for grassroots organizations in Tennessee.

The second official head of the Transgender District in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood has announced that she will be stepping down this fall.

Growing up, queer East Bay state Senate candidate Kathryn Lybarger lived an itinerant life.

The Bay Area Reporter will be publishing special reports throughout all five Thursdays of this year's Pride Month — including in a mammoth-sized issue days before the parade and celebration marking the 54th anniversary of the Stonewall riots.

A $10 million project aimed at improving pedestrian and bicycle safety along upper Market Street will be wrapping up in early May. It has also brought new lighting for the palm trees lining the roadway's median.

Last week's House passage of an anti-trans sports bill is an example of how Congress has changed since Republicans took control in January.

Letters to the editor opine on the Castro Theatre and tobacco use among LGBTQ youth.

The obituary for Roy Haynes Carr, who, with his late partner, James Meko, operated a successful printing and design company that catered to the leather community.

San Francisco's ban on taxpayer funded travel to states with anti-LGBTQ laws and doing business with companies headquartered in them is coming to an end.