Alice Kessler, a longtime lobbyist for LGBT issues in the state Capitol, is becoming a partner in the Sacramento office of Lighthouse Public Affairs, which was started in San Francisco.
It was packed in a courtroom at the Rene C. Davidson Courthouse in Oakland Friday, August 24, when lesbian former research attorney Bentrish Satarzadeh was publicly sworn in as an Alameda County court commissioner.
Representative Kyrsten Sinema (D), the first openly bisexual member of Congress, won 82 percent of the vote in her Democratic primary to run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Arizona's Republican Senator Jeff Flake.
There are five LGBT candidates vying for a seat on the San Francisco Board of Education in a race that suddenly became wide open after an incumbent failed to qualify for the November ballot.
A straight candidate for the San Francisco school board has lost two prominent endorsements because of anti-trans comments she made several years ago in the Chinese press.
Of the trio of out candidates seeking seats this year on the San Francisco Board of Education, it appears two have failed to secure the support of either of the city's two main LGBT political clubs.
The Golden State is on the verge of having its first transgender male public official, as Adam Spickler is set to join the Cabrillo Community College Board of Trustees in Santa Cruz County in January.
Mounting their first bids for public office this fall, gay men in Dublin and Redwood City are aiming to become the first out elected members of their city councils.
