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Equality California Unveils Bold 2025 Legislative Package to Defend and Expand LGBTQ+ Rights in California

Equality California, the nation’s largest statewide LGBTQ+ civil rights organization, is reaffirming its commitment to equality, safety, and inclusion with a bold 2025 legislative agenda. This year’s priorities will expand protections for LGBTQ+ Californians in critical areas, including family building, safe and supportive schools, worker protections, identity documents, healthcare, and privacy, with a particular focus on the safety of the transgender community within California and beyond its borders. “With Donald Trump and his extremist administration waging unprecedented attacks on LGBTQ+ people—especially transgender people—the gloves are off in California when it comes to protecting the safety and civil rights of our […]

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Trans landmark added to National Register of Historic Places despite Trump’s anti-trans attacks

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A San Francisco address that was once the site of a pre-Stonewall transgender uprising has been added to the National Register of Historic Places, the official list of historic sites, buildings, and objects in the United States. The National Park Service added the building at 101-102 Taylor St. in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood to its official list of historic U.S. places worthy of preservation on January 27, without any public statement or press release, The Bay Area Reporter first reported. The address was the location of Compton’s Cafeteria in the 1960s. One night in August 1966, a riot broke out at the 24-hour […]

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California Is 2025’s 7th Best State for Women’s Health

The U.S. is home to over 168 million women, whose health and well-being are essential to their quality of life and happiness. However, access to affordable health care remains a challenge, and more than one-third of women in the U.S.skip needed medical care because of the cost. Even though there are efforts across the nation to support women’s health, some states provide better conditions for women to thrive than others. In order to highlight the best states for women’s health and the ones that need to improve the most, SmileHub compared each of the 50 states based on 18 key metrics. The data […]

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California Initiated Intersex Rights. Now It Needs To Step Up Protections For Intersex Kids At Birth.

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In the face of anti-trans legislation sweeping the country over the past four years, California stepped up to protect trans people and in particular trans youth. In 2022, the state became the first in the nation to create a sanctuary for transgender youth seeking gender-affirming medical care. But with President Donald Trump issuing an anti-trans executive order on his first day in office, California will need to bolster its legal efforts to protect these vulnerable youths further. Nowhere is that protection more lacking than for intersex kids at birth and in early childhood. Intersex children are born with chromosomes, gonads, hormone function or internal or […]

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SF Pride To Increase Security Due To MAGA Threats

Leaders for San Francisco Pride are sharing the new steps they’re taking to increase security. It comes as the Trump Administration pushes a series of policies taking aim at the LGBTQ community, in particular transgender people. “I expect people are going to be emboldened and we are going to encounter more threats this year,” SF Pride Executive Director Suzanne Ford said. “We are going to take out our security plans and make sure there aren’t some some things we need to tighten up a bit and also we’re going to look at increase costs because we will have to be […]

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Equality California on Trump’s Attack on Healthcare for LGBTQ+ Youth and their Families

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Equality California released the following statement from Executive Director Tony Hoang in response to President Trump issuing an executive order attempting to stop LGBTQ+ youth—specifically transgender youth—and their families from accessing medical care: “Decisions about medical care for young people should be made between doctors and families—not by politicians like Donald Trump. This attack on transgender youth, their families, and trusted medical professionals from the Trump Administration is brazen, cynical, and dangerous. This executive order attempts to punish parents for making decisions that are in the best interest of their children, stop doctors from providing medically necessary care, and undermine the irrefutable […]

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U.S. Marshals arrest fugitive sex offender allegedly posing as LGBTQ+ journalist for years

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A man who worked as a journalist in LGBTQ+ media has been arrested and identified by California authorities as a fugitive sex offender who police say had been living under an assumed identity since at least 2016. Police officials allege that George Paul Bishop, 66, had lived under the name “Brody Levesque” in Santa Cruz County, south of San Francisco, for several years. The alias matches a journalist who has written for LGBTQ+ news site LGBTQ Nation, and a Brody Levesque once even served as editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Blade. According to Fairfax County Circuit Court in Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C., a warrant for Bishop’s arrest has been active since […]

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Equality California on Trump Executive Order Attacking LGBTQ+ Inclusive Schools

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 Equality California released the following statement from Executive Director Tony Hoang in response to Trump’s executive order directing the Department of Education to withhold federal funding from schools that support LGBTQ+ students: “Donald Trump’s directive to punish schools that provide basic dignity and respect for transgender and non-binary students and censor accurate histories of racism in America is unconscionable. This is a flagrant attempt to intimidate educators, ban curriculum, and discriminate against LGBTQ+ communities and communities of color. All students—including LGBTQ+ students—deserve to feel safe at school and be given the freedom to learn. This latest action by Donald Trump does the opposite […]

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California Releases Master Plan for Aging Annual Report and New Initiatives for 2025-26

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: The fourth Master Plan for Aging (MPA) annual report highlights California’s leadership and progress in helping hundreds of thousands of people aged 50 and over get more affordable health care and home care and live in inclusive and safe communities. The report covers accomplishments achieved in year four of California’s nation-leading 10-year plan to help all people, families, and the economy thrive through longer lives. SACRAMENTO – Today, the California Department of Aging (CDA) released a new report detailing 81 Master Plan for Aging (MPA) initiatives designed to build momentum and drive results for older Californians over the next […]

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Lesbian bar to land in The Castro in ‘decades’

A new lesbian bar is set to make history as the “first” to launch in San Francisco’s Castro District in “decades”. Sara Yergovich and Danielle Thoe, two queer business partners and friends, have signed a lease to launch the new women’s sports bar called Rikki’s. According to local outlet The Bay Area Reporter, the upcoming venue is believed to be the first new lesbian-themed bar to launch in The Castro in decades. Named after the LGBTQ+ activist Rikki Streicher, the bar is set to take over the former venue of the Mexican restaurant Copas, which closed down in 2024.  The business partners met via the […]

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