The state's auditor has faulted the California Department of Public Health for being sclerotic with its efforts to collect LGBTQ demographics and criticized the agency for having inconsistent policies.
Vallejo officials are moving to enact a tobacco retail license ordinance as the next step in its yearslong battle against the use of the addictive product that can have fatal health consequences for users.
San Francisco's ban on taxpayer funded travel to states with anti-LGBTQ laws and doing business with companies headquartered in them is coming to an end.
Coming four years to the day after he announced his 2020 presidential campaign, President Joe Biden on April 25 formally launched his 2024 reelection effort.
Derek Marshall is once again challenging Congressmember Jay Obernolte (R-Hesperia) for his House seat in the High Desert east of Los Angeles, having lost to him last November.
Relatively unknown outside of LGBTQ political circles, and a white candidate running for a seat San Francisco Latino leaders want to reclaim, Trevor Chandler is launching his bid for District 9 supervisor 19 months before voters will cast ballots.
Since 2012, when its former member Susan Talamantes Eggman departed for the state Assembly, the Stockton City Council has not had out LGBTQ representation on it.
Gay Santa Clara City Councilmember Anthony Becker is facing one felony charge stemming from his role in leaking a report about the dealings between the South Bay city's leaders and the San Francisco 49ers football team.
A bill that would have forced the outing of trans students introduced by two California Republican legislators is dead for the year after the chair of the Assembly's education committee opted not to schedule it for a hearing.
As lawmakers in other states continue to pass anti-LGBTQ bills, advocates in San Francisco are calling on city leaders to rethink their push to repeal the ban on using taxpayer money to travel to those states.
As speculation builds that Congressmember Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) could opt to retire rather than run for reelection in 2024, the former House speaker is making the rounds of the LGBTQ gala circuit this spring.
Issues related to health and transgender individuals, particularly youth, are the main focus of the LGBTQ bills making their way through the legislative process in Sacramento this year.
