At the corner of Valencia and 22nd streets, music emanated from a speaker set up outside of Aditi restaurant as a crowd watched San Francisco artist Juan Manuel Carmona and volunteers chip away at a dark brown coating of paint on a utility box.
A protest against homophobia is set for Friday morning in San Francisco's Mission neighborhood after a mural of a prominent drag artist was destroyed and its painter reportedly threatened.
This month marks the 25th anniversary of the death of Matthew Shepard. On October 6, 1998, Shepard was beaten, tortured and left to die, bound to a fence in a remote Wyoming field, not far from the small town of Laramie.
A Washington state man was sentenced October 3 to four years in prison after being convicted of a federal hate crime in an arson incident three years ago near an LGBTQ nightclub in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood.
The sun came up over Oakland's Port Bar this morning with its two front windows and glass entrance door apparently shot through in what its co-owner believes was an intentional act.
A stabbing inside a permanent supportive housing building in the Tenderloin that left a man seriously injured was an anti-LGBTQ hate crime, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins stated in a news release Thursday.
The Oakland branch of the NAACP should sever its relationship with Seneca Scott, a failed mayoral candidate whose forays into homophobia and transphobia have only escalated in recent weeks.
With seven-in-10 reported hate crimes in San Francisco occurring against gay men — the FBI is fully committed to enforcing federal hate crimes statutes regardless of who is in the White House, agents told an audience in the Castro.
A number of nonprofits representing minority groups, including the LGBTQ community, are grateful for grants from the state aimed at fighting prejudice.
The Alameda County District Attorney's office has charged a 64-year-old man with hate crime vandalism alleged to have happened in the lobby of a senior housing facility.
In a shocking and horrific incident, a Southern California woman was shot to death because she had a rainbow flag flying outside her shop in Cedar Glen, a small town near Lake Arrowhead in Southern California.
