After five years as a City College of San Francisco trustee, Tom Temprano is resigning to become the new political director at Equality California.

Due to their not casting votes in favor of various LGBTQ rights bills, 22 Democratic lawmakers failed to receive a perfect score on the 2021 legislative scorecard compiled by a statewide LGBTQ advocacy organization.

A number of LGBTQ candidates seeking congressional and state legislative seats in California have picked up backing from two high-profile LGBTQ advocacy organizations.

For much of the COVID-19 pandemic gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman had avoided contracting the virus. Living with diabetes, he was at heightened risk if he had caught it.

A trio of California sites important to the history of the LGBTQ community has received support for being designated as such from a state panel.

In the California Legislature there have long been lawmakers succeeded by their spouses or their siblings.

The two leading candidates for San Francisco's open Assembly seat are sparring over who would be the stronger advocate for a universal health care bill being considered in Sacramento.

District 6 Supervisor Matt Haney defended his record representing the Tenderloin on the Board of Supervisors during a forum for state Assembly candidates January 12.

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.

Until this fall the farthest east Assemblymember Alex Lee (D-San Jose) had traveled was South Dakota to see Mount Rushmore with a friend.

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.

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

A slew of new LGBTQ laws in California will go into effect in 2022, from ending gender-based toy aisles and protecting transgender students and LGBTQ households to enhancing services for older adults living with HIV.