San Francisco

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

Advocates for same-sex marriage marked this year's Valentine's Day with rallies and protests across the nation, many responding to a call from GetEQUAL and Marriage Equality USA to raise awareness about [...] [ Read more → ]

Following a national outcry over the HRC’s announcement that they were turning the space that once housed the camera store owned by Harvey Milk into a gift store, the Human Rights Campaign announced they are donating part of the space to the Trevor Project. [ Read more → ]

The nation's first ever museum devoted to LGBT history, opened in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood today, showcasing archives that reflect nearly a century of gay culture and LGBT life. [ Read more → ]

Community activists in San Francisco's predominantly gay Castro neighborhood are outraged by a recent statement by the Mission Delores Neighborhood Association calling for removal of the Rainbow flags that are hung from the light posts in the Castro. [ Read more → ]

The DMV clerk who sent a transgender woman in San Francisco a hate-filled letter telling her that she was an "abomination" and that “all gay people should be put to death,” has resigned as the department nears conclusion of its internal investigation. [ Read more → ]

A transgender woman in San Francisco has received a hate-filled from a Department of Motor Vehicles clerk telling her that she was an abomination and that “all gay people should be put to death.” [ Read more → ]

The man arrested on suspicion of opening fire on a crowd attending a San Francisco gay pride event Saturday night is no longer believed to be the gunman responsible for murdering 19-year-old Stephen Powell and injuring two others. [ Read more → ]

One man was fatally injured and two other people wounded in a shooting in San Francisco's Castro District late Saturday night during the "Pink Saturday" gay pride events. [ Read more → ]

Three men accused of targeting a San Francisco man they thought was gay with a BB gun were taken into custody in a courtroom Friday after a video tape emerged showing 11 more victims. The San Francisco District Attorney's Office said there were plans to... [ Read more → ]

Three Bay Area men are scheduled to be arraigned on assault and hate crime charges in San Francisco next week for allegedly shooting a man they thought was gay with a BB gun. The Feb. 26 incident took place at about 10 p.m. when the... [ Read more → ]

The San Francisco school board voted Tuesday night to fund a substantial increase in instruction and services related to gay and lesbian issues. The school district, facing layoffs and massive program cuts, unanimously agreed that the estimated $120,000 annual price tag was worth it to... [ Read more → ]

The trial of Perry v. Schwarzenegger entered its fourth day in federal court Thursday, a high stakes landmark case challenging California's Proposition 8, the voter-approved ban on gay marriage, that many see as a precursor to a showdow before the U.S. Supreme Court. On the... [ Read more → ]

The federal trial to overturn Proposition 8, the 2008 voter initiative that reinstated a California ban on same-sex marriage, entered its third day of testimony Wednesday, with a focus on the similarities and differences between homosexual and heterosexual couples, with a psychology professor citing "remarkable... [ Read more → ]

The legal challenge over Proposition 8 entered its second day in federal court in San Francisco Tuesday, with a few lessons in history from Ivy League historians called by the plantiffs. A Yale professor testifying in a case challenging California's same-sex marriage ban said Tuesday... [ Read more → ]

The trial over California's ban on same-sex marriage opened Monday in San Francisco in a landmark case that could ultimately lead to a showdown in the U.S. Supreme Court. In opening statements challenging the constitutionality of Proposition 8, the voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage, plaintiff's... [ Read more → ]

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday temporarily blocked a federal judge's plan to broadcast the trial over California's ban on gay marriage by posting video on YouTube. Just an hour before the trial got under way Monday, the high court Court halted for at least... [ Read more → ]

Next week's trial in San Francisco of a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Proposition 8, won't be televised live, but it will be videotaped for delayed internet release on YouTube, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. [caption id="attachment_4780" align="alignleft" width="280" caption="Judge Vaughn R. Walker"][/caption] "This certainly... [ Read more → ]