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This women's sports bar has been so successful it's opening up 4 new locations nationwide

1 day 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.
EU court slams Hungary's ban on LGBTQ+ expression: It "expands harm" to queer youth

1 day 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.
Marjorie Taylor Greene has regret over budget bill vote thrown in her face in House debate

1 day ago | lgbtqnation.com | Alex Bollinger

Out gay Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) threw anti-LGBTQ+ Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) regret for voting for a major budget bill in her face as she pretended that she never said that she regretted voting for the bill. At issue is the Republican “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” a large spending bill that will increase the deficit by $1.7 trillion, severely cut federal programs for low-income households like Medicaid and SNAP, increase border security spending, and extend and expand income tax breaks.
Fox News just came up with a new racist nickname for Karine Jean-Pierre

2 days ago | lgbtqnation.com | Alex Bollinger

Fox News host Jesse Watters is getting called out for what people are describing as a racist nickname for out former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. Jean-Pierre’s new book about her time at the White House came out yesterday, and she announces in the book that she’s leaving the Democratic Party to go independent. The book is entitled Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines.
Ticket sales plummit at Kennedy Center following Trump's MAGA take-over of the venue

2 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.
Coach busted using anti-LGBTQ+ slur live on camera

2 days ago | lgbtqnation.com | Alex Bollinger

A baseball coach was caught on camera using an anti-gay slur. Now he’s apologizing. In a video that has been shared online, Tom Walter, the head baseball coach for Wake Forest University in North Carolina, can be seen mouthing “F**king fa***t” in a game against the University of Tennessee. Hey @WakeBaseball… why is your coach dropping homophobic slurs??????? Nice job, Tom Walter.
The Air Force Academy graduated its first transgender cadets. Now they're getting kicked out.

2 days ago | lgbtqnation.com | Alex Bollinger

This week, the first three transgender graduates of the U.S. Air Force Academy walked across the stage at Falcon Stadium to receive their diplomas. But while they met all the same physical, academic, and personal standards that their classmates did, they will be denied commissions in the U.S. military because they’re transgender. And they’re waiting to find out if they have to now pay for their four years of schooling after Donald Trump banned them from joining the military.
This picture at Pride with his parents "means the world" to him

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.
Cities nationwide defy president & GOP by raising Pride flags

3 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.
Anti-LGBTQ+ evangelist who prayed with the president is being accused of financial impropriety

3 days ago | lgbtqnation.com | Greg Owen

Several Christian leaders formerly associated with a major anti-LGBTQ+ evangelist have issued a scathing condemnation of his behavior and called for his removal from leadership. The former associates denounced Christian evangelist Sean Feucht for “longstanding and serious moral, ethical, financial, organizational, and governance failures,” and issued a report documenting corruption and abuse associated with his ministry.