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

In a historic day for the LGBT community, California's first openly gay Assembly speaker was sworn in to office in Sacramento early Monday afternoon. [caption id="attachment_6647" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Perez"][/caption] Democrat [...]

Assemblyman John Pérez, an openly gay Latino Democrat from Los Angeles, made history Thursday when he was unanimously chosen by the California Assembly's Democratic Caucus as the lower house's leader, [...]

[caption id="attachment_3488" align="alignleft" width="250" caption="John Perez"][/caption] Democratic Assemblyman John Perez of Los Angeles is about to become the California’s first openly gay speaker of the Assembly. The position will make [...]