VIOLENT protests have erupted in California after a trans athlete served a crushing defeat to female rivals at the state championship. AB Hernandez, 16, came first in the women’s long jump

Pride Month, a global celebration of LGBTQ+ people, is starting this weekend in many places. It's always a mixture of party and protest.

A coalition of LGBTQIA+ people and allies hung a large transgender pride flag from Yosemite's El Capitan on Tuesday.

Santa Cruz Pride capped off its 50th-anniversary celebration with a downtown parade Sunday morning. Hundreds of Santa Cruz residents lined up along Pacific Avenue decked out in Pride colors to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community.

The Morro Bay City Council declared June as LGBTQ+ Pride Month on Tuesday, but some citizens said the expression of support felt empty because only two weeks ago, the City Council rescinded a policy that allowed the city to fly the Pride flag.

Drag activist Pattie Gonia and other trans allies have displayed the largest trans Pride flag ever to be flown in a national park. A 55 x 35 foot flag has been hung from the side of the El Capitan rock formation in California’s Yosemite National Park in an act of trans solidarity and a demonstration against Republicans’ anti-trans politics.

Irvine leaders raised the Progress Pride Flag in front of City Hall on Thursday, May 22, in honor of Harvey Milk Day and the city’s fourth annual Pride in Irvine event. The flag will fly through the end of Pride month, June 30.

THE MENDOCINO COUNTY Board of Supervisors has approved flying the Pride flag at the administration office on Low Gap Road in Ukiah. Supervisors Maureen

For over 40 years, the Pride flag has represented the LGBTQ+ community. Here is the history of how the flag came to be.