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At least five people were killed and 18 injured in a mass shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs late Saturday night, authorities said.

His life may have been cut short 43 years ago, but the late gay civil rights leader Harvey Milk continues to make waves.

In winning a full term on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, gay District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey has become the city’s first HIV-positive elected supervisor.

California is assured of having two gay members of Congress with the election Tuesday of gay Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia to a U.S. House seat.

For Amos and Mickey Lim, a married gay couple who live with their 14-year-old daughter in San Francisco, the road to love was filled with challenges.

With roughly one week left to the 2022 campaign season, LGBTQ leaders are confident that the November 8 election will result in 10% of California’s 120 state legislators being LGBTQ.

San Francisco Pride honored community changemakers at its second annual Ken Jones Awards program October 20.

In such a liberal region as that of the Bay Area, it seems improbable that there has never been an LGBTQ person elected to a full-term as mayor of a large city. Since 2012 the Napa County city of Calistoga, population 5,346, has been led by Chris Canning, a gay man who will depart this […]

After two years of not-quite-the-real-thing Folsom Street fairs, the massive kink and leather-focused street party is back in San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood.

For the first time, gay and bisexual men who don’t inject drugs accounted for less than half of new HIV cases in San Francisco last year.

Governor Gavin Newsom has signed into law several bills aimed at addressing anti-bias incidents, particularly those targeting Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, and expanding the collection of sexual orientation and gender identity data.

Monkeypox vaccines are trickling in and, this weekend, there will be two more opportunities to get the jab in San Francisco.

As the deadline fast approaches for California legislators to adopt legislation this year, nine LGBTQ-related bills have now been sent to Governor Gavin Newsom to either veto or sign into law.

As of Thursday, San Francisco clinics are starting to administer monkeypox vaccines using a new split-dose technique intended to stretch the limited supply.

Two hate crimes bills backed by LGBTQ Asian and Pacific Islander Californians are moving forward in the state Legislature. They come amid a yearslong rise in street harassment and attacks motivated by racial bias toward API individuals.

When some LGBTQ kids go back to school in various Southern states this year at the end of their summer breaks, they may find support in a surprisingly intimate little detail. Handwritten notes of encouragement. From strangers.

Lesbian author Elana Dykewomon died in her Oakland home August 7, just hours before a staged reading of her first play over Zoom. She was 72.

Pat Norman, a trailblazing lesbian in San Francisco who became a “first” in many appointments, died August 5 at an assisted living facility in Las Vegas. She was 82.

A Russian court on Thursday found WNBA star Brittney Griner guilty of charges that she smuggled drugs into the country.

LGBTQ advocates say it is time for San Francisco leaders to revisit and update the citywide LGBTQ+ Cultural Heritage Strategy.