If you live in California, you can change the course of history of marriage equality coast-to-coast.

Every election matters, but this one is monumental. In California, we have a chance to elect a new attorney general and governor who will support lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality 100 percent. Who...

Victory is sweet. Yesterday the U.S. District Court in San Francisco ruled that Proposition 8, which stripped same-sex couples of the freedom to marry, is unconstitutional. We're getting closer by the moment to the day when all loving couples in California will have the same rights, the same responsibilities, the...

It's time to make more history in California.

We are on the verge of electing the first transgender trial court judge. Victoria Kolakowski, candidate for Superior Court Judge in Alameda County, led her primary with 45 percent of the vote. She'll face the second highest vote-getter, Deputy District Attorney...

As we have been gearing up to celebrate the first official day of recognition for an openly lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender person in our nation's history -- Harvey Milk Day on May 22 -- I decided to reread The Mayor of Castro Street. If you haven't read it, you...

I'm still feeling the rush from seeing 500,000 people take to the streets over the weekend for May Day, calling for reform to our immigration system. Our energy and advocacy are needed now more than ever.

Like many others, I am appalled at Arizona's Senate Bill 1070, which...

Earlier this month, the California Assembly Judiciary Committee, on a bi-partisan vote, defeated a resolution honoring the Boy Scouts of America on their 100th anniversary. The reason: the Boy Scouts' perpetual discrimination against participants and troop leaders who aren't heterosexual. Equality California testified at the hearing and submitted...

It's been a groundbreaking week for same-sex couples in the quest to achieve marriage equality as the federal case against Proposition 8 (Perry v. Schwarzenegger) moves forward in the court of Judge Vaughn Walker in San Francisco.

In watching the case's progress, I've been thinking about what...

I'm waiting eagerly for the start of a new year. 2010 is not just any year for me; it's the 20th anniversary of my first role with the board of an organization working for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights.

In 1989, a domestic partnership registry had been created...

It has been a tumultuous week since last Tuesday’s elections. Maine voters stripped their lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender friends and neighbors of the right to marry. Meanwhile, Kalamazoo residents voted to preserve anti-discrimination protections, and Washingtonians said “yes” to domestic partnerships. Now that the votes are in, it’s time...