Greg Owen

3 days ago | lgbtqnation.com | Greg Owen

In the fight for LGBTQ+ rights in 2025, queer moms are leading the charge against the unprecedented animus coming straight from the White House, as well as from state capitals across the country. On issues ranging from trans rights and gender-affirming care to adoption and bathroom bills, these mothers are sounding the alarm on the damage the president and his MAGA loyalists are doing — and they are backing up their claims with action.

3 days ago | lgbtqnation.com | Greg Owen

At the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya, Pride was alive in 2021 even under the most punishing circumstances. Hamza Mutyaba, a gay man from Uganda, is a refugee who fled his country before it enshrined LGBTQ+ animus in the Anti-Homosexuality Act, which mandates long prison sentences and, in some cases, death for homosexuality. “Before arriving at Kakuma, I called Uganda home,” Mutyaba told LGBTQ Nation.

6 days ago | lgbtqnation.com | Greg Owen

As fans and the music world mourn the passing of “I Kissed a Girl” singer Jill Sobule, a video of her latest song is going viral. The tune’s unvarnished message: “JD Vance Is a C*nt.” Just months before the bisexual singer-songwriter’s death in a house fire last week, “Sobule dashed off a cutting song about the VP that thrust her back into the national conversation,” Rolling Stone reports.

6 days ago | lgbtqnation.com | Greg Owen

A Florida woman was arrested after she allegedly attacked her wife with cheesy nachos. Alison Swan, a nurse in St. Lucie, was taken into custody after police were sent to the couple’s home for a welfare check on the victim. Midway through the altercation, the victim, 40, had managed to phone a friend, who heard much of the 3 a.m. confrontation and alerted authorities. Swan’s wife told police she was in the kitchen making cheesy nachos before she was attacked.

1 week ago | lgbtqnation.com | Greg Owen

On only the second day of their conclave to elect a new pope, the College of Cardinals on Thursday sent a message of white smoke over the Vatican signaling to 1.4 billion Catholics around the world that a new leader of the Church had been chosen. An hour later, American bishop Robert Francis Prevost, 69, was announced as the new pontiff. He takes the name Pope Leo XIV.