Amid a dreary fiscal year in California, LGBTQ archival groups and Bay Area service providers who work with transgender immigrants saw state legislators include funding to address their fiscal needs in the budget signed by Governor Gavin Newsom.

The recall of two East Bay school board members propelled by their voting to ban the Pride flag is leading based on the unofficial final vote count.

As she seeks reelection this year in a redrawn district, Nevada state Senator Dallas Harris is receiving a boost from her fellow Democrats in San Francisco.

Residents of the small East Bay community of Sunol will be watching this week if a recall effort against two of the three members of their school district board is successful. Voting has been ongoing for several weeks and will end Tuesday.

It is hard to imagine that LGBTQ voters tuned into the presidential debate Thursday night because they need more information before deciding whom to vote for in November.

California lawmakers have sent Governor Gavin Newsom a bill aimed at prohibiting public school officials in the Golden State from outing transgender students to their parents or guardians without their permission.

Dennis Mangers said he isn't the "gay godfather of Sacramento," as a local media outlet dubbed him 16 years ago.

Gay Emeryville City Councilmember John Bauters is taking advantage of Pride Month to ramp up his fundraising efforts for his bid to be the first LGBTQ supervisor in Alameda County.

A trio of out East Bay leaders used Pride Month to announce their bids for city council seats in El Cerrito, Berkeley, and Concord.

They lack the name recognition, fiscal resources, and political establishment support that the quintet of top tier San Francisco mayoral candidates have headed into the fall election.

In the East Bay city of Hayward, Austin Bruckner Carrillo is seeking a school board seat this November. Meanwhile, Hayward public school teacher Charlie Jones is running for a school board seat in Pleasanton where he lives.

A political action committee aimed at electing out women and nonbinary candidates to public office across the U.S. has become the first major LGBTQ group to endorse lesbian state Senator Toni Atkins (D-San Diego) for California governor in 2026.

A committee of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors got the opportunity to learn more about the impending cuts to the Department of Children, Youth and Their Families as part of this year's budget proposed by Mayor London Breed.

San Francisco supervisors have officially designated the city as a sanctuary for transgender and other gender-nonconforming individuals.