It is a new year: a chance to start with a clean slate, of course.

South Carolina is the one of three states that requires people convicted of consensual gay sex prior to 2003 to register as sex offenders.

Two more out candidates are officially entering the 2022 race for the East Bay's open 20th Assembly District seat.

One LGBTQ political leader is noticeably absent from the endorsement lists for the four candidates running in the special election for San Francisco's open state Assembly seat.

I wrote my first sports column for the Bay Area Reporter 15 years ago this week.

Due to the oddly-shaped congressional district that Palm Springs has been drawn into, the LGBTQ retirement and tourist mecca could see it be represented by a gay former federal prosecutor come 2023.

Hong Kong lesbian Cantopop singer and pro-democracy activist Denise Ho is out on bail following her arrest late last month.

Whimsy and weariness take center stage in the Political Notebook's op-art offering for 2021.

The U.S. Postal Service is issuing its latest Black Heritage forever stamp next month, and it features Edmonia Lewis, the first African American and Native American sculptor to earn international recognition in the Western art world.

Years are remembered not just by the things that happened during them and our reflection on which of those events we celebrate and those that we wish had not occurred.

The year started out on a hopeful note. The world was looking forward to getting past a dark period in America's leadership and the global COVID-19 pandemic.

Some African LGBTQ refugees are finding new hope in Kenya through the Organization for Refuge, Asylum and Migration's livelihoods programs.

With various other potential candidates backing him, and two influential LGBTQ rights groups endorsing him hours after he made his candidacy official, Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia is the clear frontrunner to succeed Congressmember Alan Lowenthal.

Bishop John Francis Doerfler of the Catholic Diocese of Marquette, in Michigan, is receiving criticism from LGBTQ Catholics and their allies for seeking to bar them from the sacrament of Holy Communion.