With the filing deadline just eight months away, the list of LGBTQ candidates seeking California legislative seats in 2024 continues to expand.

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.

A quintet of out candidates seeking California legislative seats in 2024 has picked up early endorsements from two influential LGBTQ groups in the Golden State.

Alameda County supervisors opted not to appoint a gay applicant to a vacancy on the board and instead selected one of the three straight women who had sought the appointment after an hourslong special meeting Thursday.

Despite LGBTQ rights coming under attack in statehouses across the country, lesbian state Senate President pro Tempore Toni G. Atkins is moving to end the Golden State's ban on using taxpayer money for travel to 23 states that have passed anti-LGBTQ laws.

A gay East Bay college board member is seeking to be appointed to a vacancy on the Alameda County Board of Supervisors.

With legal pundits widely expecting the U.S. Supreme Court to issue a ruling this year allowing businesses to refuse to serve LGBTQ customers, a nationwide survey continues to find that a vast majority of Americans oppose such discrimination.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved six people for the brand new Homelessness Oversight Commission at its meeting Tuesday, including two LGBTQs who were recommended by the body's rules committee last week.

Aiming to become the first transgender person elected to the California Legislature next November, Palm Springs Councilmember Lisa Middleton revived her campaign for a state Senate seat Tuesday.

Gay San Francisco City Treasurer-Tax Collector José Cisneros has had a long-running joke with the Political Notebook that he is only of interest to cover when he stands for reelection.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved an ordinance that would repeal part of the city's administrative code relating to its contracting ban with companies headquartered in states that have adopted anti-LGBTQ laws.

With less than a year until the 2024 primary election in California, the U.S. House races in the state with LGBTQ candidates are beginning to come into focus.

With San Francisco officials moving to repeal their restriction on taxpayer-funded travel to conservative states, the author of California's travel ban policy has no plans to follow suit.

A mayoral appointee to the San Francisco Historic Preservation Commission was rejected Tuesday by a majority of the city's supervisors, who cited her lack of qualifications to serve in the historian seat on the oversight body as the reason.