Emanuel “Manny” Yekutiel dropped out of the District 8 supervisor race October 1.

Gay Board of Supervisors President Rafael Mandelman and District 8 supervisor candidate Emanuel “Manny” Yekutiel have shared a Tuesday morning walk around the neighborhood for years.

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie has withdrawn his endorsement of perceived frontrunner Emanuel “Manny” Yekutiel in the District 8 supervisor race. He is among another round of elected officials dropp...

Among the last bills outgoing Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law this year was legislation to protect intersex youth and adults, as well as transgender and nonbinary people, from being denied benef...

More than a year after the Trump administration ended the specialized services LGBTQ youth could access when calling the federal suicide prevention hotline 988, known as the “Press 3” option, it has f...

Set to receive an infusion of cash from the city, and about to move into new office space atop San Francisco’s Cathedral Hill, Parivar Bay Area no longer is at immediate risk of shuttering its doors.

LGBTQ Catholics will have an opportunity to revisit one of the darker days in their fraught relationship with the church as an affinity group holds online sessions timed with the 40th anniversary of w...

The first in a series of Queer American Memorials will be unveiled at the Institute of Contemporary Art in San Jose Friday, October 2.

Establishing a historic district in the heart of San Francisco’s LGBTQ Castro neighborhood may not have as enthusiastic a supporter of it once gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman leaves office ...

Producer and director Dan Watt was Bea Arthur’s personal assistant for six years. Before she died, he asked her to participate in a documentary about her career, to which she gladly agreed. Arthur's f...

Increasing access to condoms in middle and high school health centers will fall to California’s next governor, as outgoing Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill Sunday that would have made it easier for...

Two years ago gay then-District 4 supervisor Joel Engardio made the fateful decision to put before voters a citywide measure aimed at turning a stretch of the Great Highway running along Ocean Beach o...

Governor Gavin Newsom signed several LGBTQ-related bills into law September 26.

Under legislation Governor Gavin Newsom signed Friday, outdoor LGBTQ community events like Pride festivals will now have access to a state program that provides funding to help pay for security measur...

In the race for the District 8 seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, candidates Gary McCoy and Darshini Patel are teaming up on a ranked-choice strategy.

New HIV diagnoses in San Francisco fell by 8% last year, from 148 to 136 cases, reversing a small uptick seen in 2024, according to the latest HIV epidemiology annual report from the city’s Department...

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is set to approve emergency funding for Parivar Bay Area when it meets September 29.

There may be a light at the end of the tunnel for neighbors of a San Francisco house connected with the gruesome murder of a gay man in 2018.

Amid political and legislative attacks on transgender and gender-nonconforming people, one individual is pushing back with a pair of declarations intended to affirm trans rights at the local level.

Gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman is moving forward with designating the heart of the city’s LGBTQ Castro neighborhood as a historic district.

Governor Gavin Newsom used his veto pen over the weekend to ax legislation aimed at protecting providers of gender-affirming care from being extradited to face charges for doing so by another state.

The Reverend Glenda Hope has been called the Saint of the Tenderloin and the Presbyterian Mother Teresa. Having just turned 90, she’s the subject of Josh Chuck’s documentary, “Hope in the Streets.”

For the third straight election cycle an LGBTQ community member is challenging conservative Congressmember Jay Obernolte (R-Hesperia) for his U.S. House seat in the High Desert east of Los Angeles.

Among the issues a pair of out council candidates in two East Bay cities are running on this fall is opposition to the use of Flock Safety cameras by their police departments.

The arrivals level curbside area of Harvey Milk Terminal 1 at San Francisco International Airport is now aglow in neon lights.

Turns out updating San Francisco municipal codes to allow gay bathhouses to reopen in the city isn’t finalized.

Longtime devotees of the Bare Chest Calendar are in for a unique 2027 edition of the annual fundraiser for Bay Area LGBTQ nonprofits.

A San Francisco supervisor committee is set to vote on emergency funding aimed at keeping open the nation’s first and only Hijra, Kinnar, and Global South transgender immigrant-led organization.

How to proceed with a request from San Francisco leaders to have all of the city’s local landmarks be listed on the California Register of Historic Resources has flummoxed the state office that overse...

Two Bay Area LGBTQ community centers are looking for new office space.

A bipartisan pair of state lawmakers has co-authored a bill proclaiming September 25, or 9-2-5, as Dolly Parton Day in California.

Ahead of the Labor Day weekend, gay Tracy Mayor Dan Arriola welcomed the popular, organic-focused Sprouts Farmers Market to his San Joaquin County city, two years ahead of when the Arizona-based compa...

To mark their Sui Generis Designer Consignment being in business for two decades in San Francisco’s LGBTQ Castro district, husbands Miguel Lopez and Gabriel Yańez are hosting a two-day anniversary bas...

Either would be the first out woman elected to help govern their cities.

A state panel that allocates funding to housing projects across California has awarded financing to an LGBTQ-affirming senior housing development in San Francisco.

A number of bills related to LGBTQ health issues and youth passed out of the California Legislature this session and are headed to the desk of Governor Gavin Newsom.

With his days in office numbered, gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman is working through a to-do list of items he would like to finish before he is termed out of office next year.

The protests over trans athletes that have erupted at WNBA games across the country, including the Golden State Valkyries, has led one fan to use the discourse for good.

San Francisco Democratic Party endorses Emanuel “Manny” Yekutiel in San Francisco District 8 supervisor race.

The San Francisco Department of Public Health is urging those who haven’t to get their two-dose Jynneos vaccine to protect against mpox.

Silicon Valley Pride returns to downtown San Jose this weekend with the traditional parade and a cheaper to attend festival than last year’s.

Parivar Bay Area is about to leave its home on Turk Street.

The annual waiting game has begun to see if California Governor Gavin Newsom will sign into law or veto a slew of bills dealing with various matters of concern to the state’s LGBTQ community expected ...

Our Family Coalition, a San Francisco-based organization for LGBTQ families, will honor Gill Foundation CEO Kate Kendell at its 30th anniversary gala this fall.

As has become a biennial summer tradition in Sacramento, various affinity caucuses for state lawmakers have elected incoming chairs for the next two-year legislative session.

San Francisco is turning up the heat on the owner of a house connected with the grisly murder of a gay man in 2018.

Country music’s reigning star and lifelong LGBTQ ally Dolly Parton died Tuesday, August 25, in Nashville.

A state panel that allocates funding to housing projects across California is set to vote next month on awarding financing to an LGBTQ-affirming senior housing development in San Francisco.