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Online Extra: CA bans taxpayer-funded travel to Iowa due to discriminatory transgender law
California will no longer allow taxpayer funds to be used for state employees to travel to Iowa due to the state's implementation of a discriminatory transgender law.
State Senator Scott Wiener announced Friday that he was punting legislation aimed at improving conditions for transgender inmates to the 2020 legislative session.
Michael William Magidson, the last of the four murderers of trans teen Gwen Araujo who is still in prison, was denied parole this week during a hearing at Valley State Prison in Chowchilla, California where he is being held.
As she drives her beat up jeep with her dog, Bodhi, by her side through the Women's Land all-female community in Willits, California, Sally Gearhart reminisces about working side-by-side with the late gay San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk.
The news Tuesday that San Francisco had fewer than 200 new HIV infections in 2018 was greeted with the praise it deserves.
Maria Cadenas, a lesbian single mother and nonprofit leader, has entered the 2020 race to succeed state Senator Bill Monning (D-Carmel), who is termed out of his 17th Senate District seat along the Central Coast.
Pledging to fight "shoulder to shoulder" with the LGBT community, California Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis told a group of mostly women that issues such as immigration, climate change, and trade are key to the state's success.
Congresswoman Barbara Lee got a standing ovation at Sunday's East Bay Stonewall Democratic Club's Pride breakfast, as she said she would continue to fight for equality for all.
We see around us every day that what's happening on our streets isn't working.
We San Franciscans are blessed to live in a city that celebrates our rich diversity, where we find sanctuary with one another.
San Francisco's programs dealing with the city's epidemic of methamphetamine use are "just not working" effectively, a local nonprofit executive told a packed audience attending a town hall meeting on meth use in the queer community.
For years now Tom Anderson and his husband, Aaron Lake, have been caring for Anderson's gay great uncle in Germany. The two became close when Anderson studied in Munich a decade ago, and the couple regularly travels overseas to visit him.
LGBT employee resource groups have come a long way since their early days — it is believed that the first such ERG was formed in 1978 by workers at Hewlett Packard.
The sun came out and so did the people for Oakland's annual Pride celebration.
Gay state Senator Scott Wiener makes the case for Kamala Harris for president.
Oakland holds its first Trans March ahead of last Sunday's Pride festivities.
Thousands of pride marchers flowed through the streets of Sarajevo in the country's first successful Bosnia and Herzegovina Pride march and festival last Sunday.
Leaders of FIFA, soccer's international governing body, have long gotten soccer fans accustomed to their habit of repeatedly taking one step forward for progress, then one step off a 35-foot cliff.
This week's editorial cartoon.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed and members of the Board of Supervisors joined forces last weekend at a kickoff rally for Proposition A, a $600 million housing bond that's on the November 5 ballot.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed and Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf met on Treasure Island last week to promote a friendly volunteer "Battle for the Bay" competition ahead of the Bay Cleanup Challenge, set for Saturday, September 21.