California

The California state Assembly on Tuesday approved landmark legislation that would require the teaching of LGBT history in public schools. [ Read more → ]

Opening arguments are scheduled to get underway Tuesday in the trial of Brandon McInerney, charged with the execution style killing of a gay classmate in 2008. [ Read more → ]

Federal investigators on Friday concluded that the Tehachapi, Calif., Unified School District failed to “adequately investigate or respond appropriately to the bullying of a gay, 13-year-old middle school student who hung himself in September due to the harassment." [ Read more → ]

Proposition 8 proponents filed an appeal challenging Chief U.S. District Judge James Ware’s June 14 decision to uphold last year’s ruling that the law banning same-sex marriage in California was unconstitutional. [ Read more → ]

Police have arrested a local transient on suspicion of a hate crime for hanging a noose in the doorway of the offices of LGBT advocacy group Equality California last year. [ Read more → ]

Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker was not obligated to disqualify himself from from hearing the case because he is gay and in a long-term relationship with another man, another federal judge ruled on Tuesday. [ Read more → ]

The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California ruled late Monday that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is unconstitutional, granting a legally married gay couple a joint Chapter 13 bankruptcy. [ Read more → ]

Supporters of California’s Proposition 8 were back in court on Monday, seeking to have the ruling voided because the federal judge that presided over the case is gay, and did not disclose he was in a long-term, same-sex relationship. [ Read more → ]

It now seems unlikely that a federal judge will vacate a landmark decision in which a gay judge ruled that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional. [ Read more → ]

Famed attorneys Ted Olson and David Boies will not be in a San Francisco courtroom Monday when attorneys in the landmark Proposition 8 case square off once again. [ Read more → ]

On this day, 44 years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Loving v. Virginia struck down laws that forbade African Americans and whites from marrying. [ Read more → ]

Chaz Bono is slated to be the Grand Marshall of the San Francisco gay pride parade on June 26. [ Read more → ]

Just hours after a gay correctional officer in Southern California announced he would take legal action for being prohibited from marching in uniform in a gay pride parade, the Department of Corrections reversed its decision, reported TMZ. [ Read more → ]

The California state Assembly on Wednesday approved a new anti-bullying law designed to reduce bullying of LGBT teens. The bill is named for Seth Walsh, a 13-year-old gay teen who committed suicide last year after enduring years of anti-gay bullying. [ Read more → ]

The World Series champion San Francisco Giants on Wednesday became the first major league sports team to join the "It Gets Better" project, in hopes of inspiring LGBT youth struggling with adversity and intolerance. [ Read more → ]

A man and woman have been charged with assault and commission of a hate crime in the May 21 attack on a gay couple following a dispute over a parking spot in downtown Palm Springs. [ Read more → ]

U.S. figure skating champion Johnny Weir has been named grand marshal of the 2011 Los Angeles Gay Pride Parade. [ Read more → ]

Today is "Harvey Milk Day," which is officially recognized by the State of California and celebrated worldwide. [ Read more → ]

A Los Angeles police sergeant who claimed he was harassed because he is gay, and then retaliated against for reporting the incidents, was awarded $1.1 million by a jury on Thursday. [ Read more → ]

California Attorney General Kamala Harris submitted a brief to the state's Supreme Court earlier this week, arguing that state law does not allow the supporters of Proposition 8 -- the 2008 voter approved ban on gay marriage -- the right to defend the measures in court. [ Read more → ]