As it marks this month its third anniversary in business at 3901 18th Street in San Francisco's Castro LGBTQ neighborhood, Kokak Chocolates is shaking up its menu items and eying expansion into breakfast and lunch options.

Wanting to live closer to where they both worked, Jovanka Beckles and her wife, Nicole Valentino, left Alameda in 2005 for Richmond, California, where they could afford to buy a home for themselves and their then teenage son, Lucio Valentino.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed met with Israeli LGBTQ community leaders during her recent trip to Israel.

The Alameda County Fair kicks off Friday, June 16, and will include a special Pride celebration Sunday, June 18, featuring Out at the Fair, an organization that works to increase LGBTQ presence at county fairs in California and other states.

Pride, in 2023, feels a bit surreal. For months, we have heard the worst people on the right relentlessly labeling LGBTQ people — and in particular transgender people — as groomers, preying on the nation's children.

The Biden administration will be appointing a coordinator to work on the issues and threats that book bans pose for civil rights, according to a June 8 statement from the White House.

San Francisco film buffs will be able to see Andrea Pallaoro's trans-themed "Monica" at a special showing and reception next week.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is set to back the effort to repeal Proposition 8's "zombie language" from the California Constitution at its June 13 meeting.

The pink triangle atop Twin Peaks will revert to a canvas-only display for 2023, after having special LED lighting the past three years, and volunteers are needed ahead of the installation, co-founder Patrick Carney stated in a news release.

Should Justine Gonzalez win her bid next year for a Los Angeles Assembly seat, she could be one of the first transgender members of the California Legislature and one of the first bisexual women to serve in Sacramento.

The LGBTQ community isn't taking increasing threats to drag lying down — filing suits against a Utah city and the state of Florida arguing their anti-drag moves violate the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Pride-themed merchandise has always been political. LGBTQ activists have denounced such products sold by corporations as pink-washing over their lack of supportive policies for their LGBTQ employees.

President Joe Biden has nominated a gay former congressmember to serve at the rank of ambassador.

President Joe Biden called Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni's signing of the Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2023 a "tragic violation of universal human rights," and "shameful," condemning the bill in a statement from the White House May 29.