Two gay men running for county education posts in the Bay Area took the lead in their races Tuesday night, according to unofficial returns.

Tuesday's primary was a mixed bag for the out candidates in congressional races in southern California.

In the only competitive state legislative race in the Bay Area with out candidates, all three of the challengers appear to have fallen short in Tuesday's contest for the open 15th Assembly District seat.

Gay attorney Rafael Mandelman trounced gay District 8 Supervisor Jeff Sheehy in the special election on Tuesday's ballot to serve in the seat through the end of the year.

Governor Brown names lesbian lawyer to Alameda County Superior Court seat. Local candidates ready to party as they watch the primary results come in Tuesday night.

Should next week's special election for the District 8 seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors be won in a landslide, it could also decide the outcome of the November race for a full four-year term.

Gay state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) on Thursday (May 24) announced a bill that would exempt compassionate care programs from having to pay some taxes enacted under Proposition 64, the state's adult recreational marijuana law.

Burning Man attendees known him as a DJ for the Gender Bender camp. Privacy and free speech activists likely have gotten to know him through his work with the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Bill of Rights Defense Committee.

After the San Francisco Board of Supervisors angered Mayor Mark Farrell with its rejection of his two reappointments to the Police Commission, its rules committee is poised to vote on 12 applicants, including four LGBTs, at its meeting Wednesday.

Finding the funds to pay for below-market-rate housing in San Francisco for the homeless, youth, seniors, and those earning low to moderate incomes is a constant challenge for local leaders.

With conservative donors bankrolling a multimillion-dollar effort to defeat her come November, lesbian U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisconsin) barnstormed through the Bay Area last weekend to bolster her own campaign coffers.

A lesbian former Bay Area councilwoman will take on a longtime Republican incumbent in a rural Oregon congressional district this November having won her Democratic primary race Tuesday.

Gay California Republican group endorses out GOP candidates vying for San Diego supervisor, Sacramento district attorney and state legislative seats.

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra has joined with nine of his counterparts in other states to oppose the Trump administration's move to no longer collect crime data on LGBT teenagers at the federal level.