With District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman now backing Gary McCoy to succeed him, all five gay men who have held the seat over the past 25 years have endorsed McCoy in the race.

Come November 3, Scott Shafer will help lead election night coverage one last time for San Francisco-based public broadcaster KQED.

The sexual assault allegations that brought down the supervisorial candidacy of Emanuel “Manny” Yekutiel have brought to the fore the topics of consent and sex in gay male environments.

The last LGBTQ-themed street party of the season is here, and it’s for hirsute people and their admirers.

LGBTQ organizations were among those that received funding through San Francisco’s newly unified Arts Commission and Grants for the Arts.

In Alameda and Oakland, mothers of gender-nonconforming children are running for seats on their cities’ school boards.

The next Queen Mother for the International Court System will hail from San Francisco, returning the crown to the city where the LGBTQ philanthropic organization was launched 62 years ago.

The decrepit San Francisco house connected with the gruesome murder of a gay man more than eight years ago sold at auction late Thursday afternoon for $980,000, according to the online auction website...

Two bisexual female Democratic congressional candidates are roasting their Republican opponents over President Donald Trump’s suggestion that Iran “take out” Los Angeles and San Diego with a nuclear w...

It was bittersweet over 10 years ago when Metropolitan Community Church-San Francisco sold its dilapidated building at 150 Eureka Street in the Castro.

After finding success via pop-ups at community events, Mission Lotería now has a brick-and-mortar location where it can showcase merchandise made by local people of color and LGBTQ artisans while prom...

The interior of the Taylor Street site of the Compton’s Cafeteria Riots remains unaffected by the amendment of the landmark that includes the exterior, following a San Francisco Board of Supervisors v...

San Francisco will officially recognize National PrEP Day for the first time.

In Daly City, gay resident Atanacio “Tony” Bayudan is vying to become his city’s first known out council member.

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.