President Joe Biden issued an executive order on April 27 increasing the minimum wage for federal contract workers to $15 per hour.

Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson has warned insurance companies that they should "eliminate invisible barriers to gender-affirming care."

I flew home last weekend. I needed to get out of Seattle and clear my head, so I booked a last- minute flight to California and spent four days in Santa Cruz with the people I care about most. Thank God for pandemic pricing.

In 2020, 350 Transgender people were killed worldwide. A fifth of them were in their own homes, and 44 of these killings happened here in the United States.

Over 47 years, the Seattle Gay News has covered thousands of stories that still resonate today. This week we look back at Volume 38, Issue 18, published on April 30, 2010.

After serving in the King County Sheriff's Office for 32 years and running against incumbent John Urquhart, Mitzi Johanknecht made history in King County in 2017 as the first woman and openly Gay person to be elected to the position of sheriff, a sensatio

Nomadland walked away with Best Picture. Chloé Zhao became only the second woman after Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker) and the first woman of color to win Best Director in Oscar history.

On Friday, April 23, Seattle Pacific University students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community members gathered to protest in response to the SPU Board of Trustees' decision to uphold the hiring policy that excludes LGBTQ+ individuals from becoming full-

"We recognize that this tastes bittersweet to a mourning family, community, and world" —Entre Hermanos

National News Highlights from the week of 4/30/21 compiled by SGN contributing writer Daniel Lindsley