Greg Owen

2 days ago | lgbtqnation.com | Greg Owen

Portland-based entrepreneur and women’s sports enthusiast Jenny Nguyen is taking her hit Sports Bra concept national. Nguyen announced this week that Portland’s first and only bar and restaurant dedicated to women’s sports is expanding to four additional cities, with franchises in Boston, Indianapolis, St. Louis, and Las Vegas. “The first four franchises of The Sports Bra will join our OG Portland location to become the ‘Starting Five,’” Nguyen says.

2 days ago | lgbtqnation.com | Greg Owen

Weeks before an anticipated showdown at Budapest’s newly outlawed Pride celebration on June 28, Hungary’s authoritarian government received a scathing rebuke from the European Court of Justice on another front in its anti-LGBTQ+ crusade.

3 days ago | lgbtqnation.com | Greg Owen

Following Donald Trump’s hostile takeover of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in February, ticket sales at the revered institution have plummeted. Sales of subscriptions for the coming season of programming at the venue are down by roughly 36 percent overall compared with last year. Single-ticket sales were down roughly 50 percent in April and May, compared with the same period in 2024, according to the data.

3 days ago | lgbtqnation.com | Greg Owen

Justin Stewart is a regular at the Washington, D.C., Pride celebration every year. In 2024, he was extra proud. The content producer for NBC Washington had attended the parade for several years with his mom, and the two walked the route in matching mother-son outfits. “Matching jean short jumpers. I purchased them for both of us from the Target Pride collection back in 2021,” he tells LGBTQ Nation. Stewart came out to his mom when he was 13. He says she was nonplussed.

4 days ago | lgbtqnation.com | Greg Owen

Resistance is rising on flagpoles and landmarks across the United States this June as cities and states defy the presidential administration’s erasure of LGBTQ+ identity by proudly flying Pride flags and shining the colors of the rainbow. Republicans nationwide have sought to ban the display of Pride flags on government buildings and in stateside schools. However, state governors and mayors are bucking the trend by displaying the queer flags on their home turf.