Oakland CA

Spotting a “Love Is Love” yard sign can be a reliable way to identify LGBTQ folks and straight allies, but a new project offers a more permanent option.

Nikai David just turned 33 years old before her life was cut short last week. She’s at least the 50th trans or gender non-conforming victim to violence in 2021.

“It was terrible. I had a meltdown at work,” the woman said about what she believes was a bias-motivated attack.

No one like Kamala Harris has ever served in the government of these United States.

“I would have assumed the Democrats would have checked that out before she gets chosen to run for vice president.”

The conspiracy theory that Harris isn’t a natural-born U.S. citizen – even though she was born in Oakland – is spreading.

When will white people stop calling the cops on people of color because they’re napping, golfing, moving, dancing, or taking their kid to the park?

The media is learning proper naming is critical because it validates the way people who have died lived.

The raw divisions exposed by the presidential race were on full display across America on Wednesday as protesters flooded city streets.

It was only the second game Sinclairé ever attended, but the classically trained soprano, who has a 4½-octave range, broke new ground before the Oakland A’s game with the San Diego Padres at the A’s LGBT Pride night.

The mayors of four West Coast cities say they’re lifting bans imposed on city-funded travel to Indiana after changes were made to that state’s religious objections law to make clear it can’t be used to discriminate.

OAKLAND, Calif. — A California teen accused of setting fire last year to an agender individual who was sleeping on an Oakland city bus, has entered a plea of no contest to felony charges. Richard Thomas, 17, faces a sentence of up to seven years in prison after a plea agreement was reached Thursday in which he admitted to a charge of …

OAKLAND, Calif. — Transgender students who identify as female will now be considered for enrollment at Mills College in Oakland. The announcement makes Mills the first of the country’s 119 single-sex colleges to have an official policy for transgender applicants.

OAKLAND, Calif. — The Roman Catholic Dioceses in Oakland and Cincinnati have come under fire for new morality clauses that require teachers to conform to church teachings in their private lives.

OAKLAND, Calif. — A 16-year-old teen has been charged as an adult in an alleged hate crime against an agender victim whose skirt was set on fire while sleeping on a city bus.

OAKLAND, Calif. — Officials at an Oakland queer youth space are frantically trying to find a new location after the building they had been using was destroyed by a fire.

SAN FRANCISCO — Salvatore Cordileone, a prelate of the Roman Catholic Church and one of California’s leading opponents of same-sex marriage, was named was named Archbishop of San Francisco by Pope Benedict XVI on Friday.

A federal judge in Oakland, Calif., ruled late Thursday that a provision of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), is unconstitutional to the extent that it limits same-sex spouses of state workers in obtaining the insurance.

OAKLAND, Calif. — A transgender woman was shot to death in downtown Oakland, Calif., over the weekend, and friend believe her killing was a hate crime.

California’s Alameda County has been elected its first transgender Superior Court Judge. Victoria Kolakowski, 49, defeated her opponent, Deputy District Attorney John Creighton, in a narrow win in what had been a hotly contested race.