The 10 contests for West Coast House races in 2024 with LGBTQ candidates that the Bay Area Reporter is already tracking feature a number of rematches and several newcomers seeking to serve in Congress.

Even as the policy is being eyed for repeal this year, California's ban on state-funded travel to states with anti-LGBTQ laws is expanding.

Award-winning Russian investigative journalist Elena Milashina and civil rights lawyer Alexander Nemov were brutally attacked in Grozny, Chechnya's capital, earlier this month while on their way to the trial of a human rights activist.

The city committee that oversees San Francisco street closures approved most of Lesbians Who Tech's proposed Castro neighborhood plans for its mid-October confab — with one major exception.

San Francisco Police Chief William Scott promised a detailed presentation at next week's Police Commission meeting on the mass arrest of teenagers during what law enforcement characterized as a "riot" following chaos at the annual Dolores "hill bomb."

A repeal measure of language defining marriage as between a man and a woman embedded in the state constitution will go before California voters in 2024.

A Castro neighborhood bar that'd been closed for years will be reopening in September after it passed its final inspection.

Sommeliers and friends Cara Patricia and Simi Grewal opened their wine bar and shop DECANTsf in San Francisco's South of Market district on May 1, 2019.

The historic appointment of San Francisco's first — and so far only — Latina lesbian supervisor was put in motion after then-President Bill Clinton nominated another lesbian supervisor, Roberta Achtenberg, to a top administration post in 1993.

Growing up in southwestern Virginia, in a family so poor our home had no running water, it shouldn't come as a surprise that I never had an LGBTQ+ role model to turn to or to emulate as I tried to understand who I was.

The federal courts have given preliminary victories to the drag community in recent weeks in separate lawsuits against a Utah city and the state of Florida where judges ruled their anti-drag moves violate the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

The board that oversees the regional transit agency BART will be losing at least one of its current three out members at the end of 2024.

A new interactive exhibit about queer health is launching this weekend in San Jose, with two more viewings coming up in other South Bay cities.

The hammer came down on trans kids with a 2-1 decision by a panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that allows a state ban in Tennessee to go into effect.