Pride, in 2023, feels a bit surreal. For months, we have heard the worst people on the right relentlessly labeling LGBTQ people — and in particular transgender people — as groomers, preying on the nation's children.

The Biden administration will be appointing a coordinator to work on the issues and threats that book bans pose for civil rights, according to a June 8 statement from the White House.

San Francisco film buffs will be able to see Andrea Pallaoro's trans-themed "Monica" at a special showing and reception next week.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is set to back the effort to repeal Proposition 8's "zombie language" from the California Constitution at its June 13 meeting.

The pink triangle atop Twin Peaks will revert to a canvas-only display for 2023, after having special LED lighting the past three years, and volunteers are needed ahead of the installation, co-founder Patrick Carney stated in a news release.

Should Justine Gonzalez win her bid next year for a Los Angeles Assembly seat, she could be one of the first transgender members of the California Legislature and one of the first bisexual women to serve in Sacramento.

The LGBTQ community isn't taking increasing threats to drag lying down — filing suits against a Utah city and the state of Florida arguing their anti-drag moves violate the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Pride-themed merchandise has always been political. LGBTQ activists have denounced such products sold by corporations as pink-washing over their lack of supportive policies for their LGBTQ employees.

President Joe Biden has nominated a gay former congressmember to serve at the rank of ambassador.

President Joe Biden called Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni's signing of the Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2023 a "tragic violation of universal human rights," and "shameful," condemning the bill in a statement from the White House May 29.

June is upon us, and with that Pride season.

The National Center for Lesbian Rights will hold its second annual Pride in the Park celebration Saturday, June 3, from 3 to 7 p.m. at the National AIDS Memorial Grove in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.

Back in 2016, when gay former state Senator Mark Leno was term-limited from running again for his San Francisco seat, the city was facing the possibility of having no LGBTQ representatives in the state Legislature.

It has been 27 years since an out female won election to a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.