San Diego Gay and Lesbian News

An Orange County, CA., gay high-schooler asked his straight best friend to homecoming and their story has spread across the internet. 

Alexander Duarte, 17, goes to Santa Ana Valley High School and had been planning on asking his best friend Erick Pineda to the homecoming dance.

An openly gay Redwood City Council candidate, Jason Galisatus, is not being deterred by what appears to be homophobic hate speech he found spray painted on a fence in front of his apartment on Thursday, Oct. 11. Police are investigating the vandalism as a hate crime. 

This week marked the 20th commemoration of the torture, lynching and ultimate death of Matthew Shepard. The 21-year-old was tied to a barbed wire fence and left to die on a cold Wyoming night. 

Nicole Murray-Ramirez, Queen Mother I of the Americas, has released a special message on this day of remembrance.

 Warning: This story contains a recount of a brutal, fatal homophobic attack on a teenager. 

In what may be one of the most horrific attacks against a member of the LGBT community to be caught on video has gone viral on social media.

If you're gay or transgender the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) thinks Satan is to blame, at least that's the assertion coming from Dallin H. Oaks, first counselor in the First Presidency of the church. 

Oaks says the Devil “seeks to confuse gender, to distort marriage, and to discourage childbearing, especially by parents who will raise children in truth."

After two years of retrofitting, the Georgia Street Bridge is once again open to the public.

The historic landmark located in North Park just outside of Hillcrest has been under construction for over two years. It was supposed to be completed in November of last year, but that was extended to spring of 2018 and is only now tread-worthy. 

A man in Edinburgh, Scotland was surprised by what greeted him and his nephew in a public restroom last Wednesday; a 12-man orgy. 

The encounter took place at a place called The Mound when the man, only identified as a "grocer," walked into the bathroom with his six-year-old nephew and saw a man “crouched down at another’s groin” while the others masturbated. 

Administrators at a Virginia middle school were confused about where to send a trans student during a mass shooting safety drill last week, so they left her out in the open.

Someone opened fire outside the popular gay nightclub Pegasus in San Antonio Texas late Sunday night reports KSAT. 

Three people were hit by the gunfire in what is believed to have been an altercation between two parties that started inside the club. 

As we celebrate LGBT history month and the icons who have affected us in one way or another, New York is mourning the loss of one of their own this week.