Outlet profile

LGBTQ Nation

U.S. left (LGBTQ-advocacy focused)

Owned byQ.Digital, Inc., an employee-owned company founded by Scott Gatz; 100% owned by current and former employees and certified as an LGBT Business Enterprise by the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce

FundingPrimarily advertising revenue; advertisers cannot direct editorial content, and sponsored content is labeled as such

On the administrationbroadly critical

Background

LGBTQ Nation launched in 2009 as an independent digital news site dedicated to covering politics, culture, and advocacy issues affecting LGBTQ+ communities. In 2015 it was acquired by Q.Digital, Inc. (then operating as GayCities Inc.), a company founded in 2007 by Scott Gatz that had been consolidating LGBTQ+ digital media properties. Q.Digital had previously acquired Queerty in 2011 and later added INTO (2020) and Outsports (2024, from Vox Media's SB Nation). Media bias analysts including Media Bias/Fact Check and AllSides rate LGBTQ Nation as left-leaning, with a mostly factual record but a note that opinion content is not always clearly labeled. The outlet has received the GLAAD Barbara Gittings Award for excellence in LGBTQ+ media. Since Trump's second term began in January 2025, LGBTQ Nation has published extensive critical coverage of administration actions on gender policy, federal healthcare benefits, and the removal of LGBTQ+ data from government surveys, positioning itself as an advocacy-oriented watchdog on those issues.

Sources

Profile compiled 2026-08-01; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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