LGBTQ Nation
LGBTQ Nation is an American online news magazine headquartered in San Francisco, California. It was founded in 2009 and is currently owned by Q.Digital. The website is primarily marketed to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) community. Through its parent company, it is affiliated with three other sites: Queerty, GayCities, and INTO.
Editor
Chris Bull
Bil Browning
Alex Bollinger
Molly Sprayregen
Q.Digital
2009
History[edit]
LGBTQ Nation was founded in 2009.[2] It reports on topics that are relevant to the LGBTQ community, and the site is headquartered in San Francisco.[3][4][5] It is owned by Q.Digital, as are its sister companies, Queerty, GayCities, and INTO.[6][7][8] As of 2017, the website had 1.2 million followers on Facebook.[9] Q.Digital says that LGBTQ Nation is "the most visited LGBTQ news site in the US".[10] In 2021, LGBTQ Nation was nominated for the 32nd GLAAD Media Awards.[11][12]
Milo Yiannopolous was named LGBTQ Nation's "2016 Person of the Year" due to a reader driven poll. LGBTQ Nation, the Anti-Defamation League, and Vocativ said that Yiannopolous's supporters had posted about the poll on sites such as Reddit and 4chan, and that Breitbart News ran stories about the poll.[13][14][15] At Yiannopolous's request, the editors of LGBTQ Nation removed a reference to him as "alt right". The decisions to nominate and interview Yiannopolous, as well as to remove the reference to him as "alt right", drew some backlash from the site's readers.[3][16]