For more than a decade Stephen Torres has been a fixture in San Francisco's Castro LGBTQ district. He has tended bar at the neighborhood's famed Twin Peaks gay tavern the last 12 years.
LGBTQ rights organizations and leaders are concerned that the November 2024 California ballot could see pro- and anti-LGBTQ measures on it if at least one of the anti-trans initiatives qualifies.
Longtime activists who worked with the late San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk and mayor George Moscone urged young people to embody the legacy of the slain heroes as America faces another divisive presidential election year.
With the news Tuesday that Congressmember Anna Eshoo (D-Palo Alto) will retire from the South Bay House seat she has held since 1993, it provides an opportunity to see the first LGBTQ person from the Bay Area be elected to Capitol Hill.
In the third episode of the new television miniseries "Fellow Travelers," clearly visible on the wall of the San Francisco apartment where one of the main characters, resides is a campaign poster. It declares "Milk for Supervisor."
With the entrance this week of a queer Washington state senator into an open House race in 2024, all three states along the West Coast could see the election of LGBTQ Congress members for the first time next year.
Acknowledging she is facing a likely insurmountable deficit in winning her special election for a vacant Oakland school board seat, queer education advocate Sasha Ritzie-Hernandez announced Wednesday that she will seek to be elected to it in 2024.
Statewide LGBTQ advocacy organization Equality California has early endorsed several out supervisor candidates running in races on the March primary ballot.
The biggest international gathering in decades will descend on San Francisco this weekend and bring with it a week of global attention and traffic chaos.
With new tallies in the November 7 special elections for Bay Area education board seats, it appears only one of the two out education leaders who ran will win election.