On December 15, 80 members of the United States Senate and Congress sent a letter to the federal Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), urging it to end the lifetime ban which prevents men who have sex with men from donating blood. The ban, which the Federal Drug Administration enforced in 1983, prohibits any man who has had sex with another man since 1977 from donating blood. Groups like the Los Angeles LGBT Center applaud the action.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California lawmakers are urging the archbishop of San Francisco to remove morality clauses from a teachers' handbook they say are discriminatory.

(WB) Beloved Out actor and comedian Leslie Jordan died in a single-car crash Monday morning in Hollywood after suffering an unspecified medical emergency, a Los Angeles Police Department source said.

Art is evocative. It stands for something bigger than itself.  Art feeds the mind and nourishes the soul.

As the Oscars ceremony approaches, GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics was the latest industry group to announce their nominees for the Dorian Awards.

A coalition of LGBT organizations in California is warning the state could become the epicenter of the disease if there isn’t immediate expanded access to testing and vaccines.

Daniel Sohn is on the move again. Sohn, the former Haverhill councilman, is set to take the reigns of another California chamber of commerce next month.

Daniel H. Sohn is going west. Sohn was hired this month to lead a regional chamber of commerce in southern California.

VICTORVILLE, Calif. (AP) — A 23-year-old man has pleaded not guilty to orchestrating an attack on a gay man late last year in what San Bernardino County authorities are calling a hate crime.

A six-month study on transgender service members in all branches of the military is closing soon, hopefully leading to a lift on a decades-long ban.

To honor the more than 700,000 lives lost to AIDS during the past four decades, the National AIDS Memorial is hosting a virtual ceremony June 5, and is inviting the public to join them.

RICHMOND, Calif. (AP) — In December, the openly gay, white police chief of this tough, minority-dominated Northern California city held up a sign reading "#blacklivesmatter" during a protest over the deaths of two unarmed black suspects at the hands of Missouri and New York police.

The city of Oakland Park’s commission voted Wednesday evening to lower its millage rate from 5.8890 to 5.8550, the eighth reduction in nine years.

A traffic accident Sunday afternoon in Oakland Park claimed the life of a man and sent a woman to the hospital.

On the eve of the election, reports of alleged tea-room antics continue to swirl around Carl DeMaio, the openly gay GOP candidate for San Diego's 52nd Congressional District, as a second former staffer stepped forward with a claim of sexual harassment.

SAN DIEGO –  Republican Carl DeMaio on Sunday conceded defeat to incumbent Scott Peters in one of the nation's most hotly contested congressional races to represent a large part of San Diego, ending a bitter campaign that was rocked by claims that he sexually harassed a former staffer.

I was first diagnosed with damage to my cerebrum and cerebellum in June of 2021, and had to cancel a trip with John Fugate and Brian Swinford to the summer all-star game in Denver. it was rough.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Carl DeMaio figures he must be doing something right if both social conservatives and members of the gay rights community oppose him.

Drag took center stage March 12 at the Oscars when Daniel Scheinert won the award for Best Director and declared during his acceptance speech drag “is a threat to nobody.” 

Richard Grenell, the gay Trump administration cabinet member, has decided not to enter the California recall election.

Is there no shame in those oiled-up bodies? Palm Springs Mayor Christy Holstege has had enough.

Peter Thiel, a gay man, played a key role in the Silicon Valley Bank collapse that happened Friday.

Shelter volunteers and staff at the Humane Society of Broward County only have wonderful things to say about Spot (ID A651067), in fact they say he is a “spectacular” dog!

Following the massacre at a gay bar in Colorado Springs that killed at least five people and injured many more, the sports world extended its love and support. 

Natalie Ryan, a transgender disc golf touring pro, has filed a complaint in the Eastern District of California's federal court.

Palm Springs was the site of a brutal attack on Sunday when two prominent gay residents were beaten because they are gay. The attack on married couple George and Chris Zander is being investigated by police as a felony hate crime.

The owner of three of West Hollywood's most fashionable men's retail shops announced this week he will close one in order to convert it into America's first privately owned LGBTQ Center.

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Prosecutors on Monday declined to charge Republican congressional candidate Carl DeMaio over allegations that he sexually harassed a former campaign aide and said they were not charging the former aide with breaking into DeMaio's office.

Earl Bunning, who performs across South Florida under the stage name RaeJean Cox, was in a major car accident Aug. 5.

LOS ANGELES — Several vulnerable U.S. House freshmen survived tight contests in California's congressional races, as Democrats sought to gain ground in the party's longshot bid to reclaim majority control in Washington.