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Matt Tracy

Matt Tracy is Gay City News’ editor-in-chief.

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Television

Primetime Emmy nominations feature LGBTQ representation

By Matt Tracy
Lee Soulja-Simmons delivers remarks during NYC Black Pride's 2022 Heritage Image Awards.
Pride

NYC Black Pride, slated for mid-August, presses on despite budget cuts

By Matt Tracy
Christopher Park.
National

National Park Service website erases bisexual representation from Stonewall National Monument site

By Matt Tracy
US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. listens at a Make Oklahoma Healthy Again kickoff event at the Oklahoma State Capitol in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S. June 26, 2025.
Health

RFK abruptly cancels meeting of task force responsible for determining preventive services

By Matt Tracy
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks to the media alongside US President Donald Trump in the Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington D.C., June 27, 2025.
Health

DOJ probes providers of youth gender-affirming care

By Matt Tracy
People sit on the lawn of Washington Square Park after the 2025 NYC Pride March in New York City, June 29, 2025.
New York State

Report outlines New York State’s LGBTQ population and highlights disparities

By Matt Tracy
US President Donald Trump uses a gavel after signing the sweeping spending and tax legislation, known as the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 4, 2025.
Politics

Anti-trans provisions scrapped from Trump’s massive bill 

By Matt Tracy
Outside of The Monster in Greenwich Village.
Crime

Man allegedly brandishes knife, defaces Pride sign in Greenwich Village: NYPD

By Matt Tracy
Advocates gather at City Hall on May 22 to seek millions in funding in the city budget to support trans New Yorkers.
New York City

‘Historic win’: LGBTQ groups, lawmakers praise city budget for funding trans health, LGBTQ initiatives

By Matt Tracy
The replenishment oiler USNS Harvey Milk (T-AO 206) transits San Francisco Bay during a namesake visit to San Francisco in 2024.
Military

Blaming Biden, Hegseth renames USNS Harvey Milk

By Matt Tracy
Rainbow balloons float in the air ahead of the NYC Pride March on the morning of June 29.
Pride

PHOTOS: Pride Sunday festivities in Manhattan

By Matt Tracy
The 2025 NYC Pride March lined the streets of Manhattan in commemoration of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising.
Pride

NYC Pride March brings the heat on a sizzling Sunday in Manhattan

By Matt Tracy
A general view of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, U.S., June 1, 2024.
Health

Sigh of relief after Supreme Court upholds PrEP coverage, other preventive services

By Matt Tracy
A view of the US Supreme Court building in Washington, U.S., June 1, 2024.
Legal

Citing religion, Supreme Court rules parents can opt students out of LGBTQ storybooks

By Matt Tracy
Jane Abott Lighty (Left) and wife Pete-e Peterson (rght) were the first same-sex couple to receive a marriage License in the State of Washington in 2012.
Love & Marriage

Report sheds light on 10 years of marriage equality in the United States

By Matt Tracy
At the Queer Liberation March in 2022.
From the Editor

Pride is resilience, liberation, community, and identity

By Matt Tracy
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Arts

  • “Matador Bolero," directed by Jonathan Rosado. ‘Matador Bolero’: Queer rocker Yves Tumor makes their acting debut in oddball sci-fi experiment
  • “Stop! That! Train!” kicks off NewFest Pride 2026. ‘Dads,’ ‘Leviticus,’ and more: NewFest Pride tees up annual lineup of queer films
  • "Diamonds," directed by Ferzan Özpetek, opens May 15 at the Angelika Film Center. Q&A: Filmmaker Ferzan Özpetek delivers an ode to women in new film ‘Diamonds’
  • Author Wendell Edward Carter promotes his novel, "Melting The Snow," about a Black gay man's journey towards embracing his identity.  Queer authors and bookworms converge at 14th annual New York Rainbow Book Fair
  • "Dancing On the Wall" is MUNA's first release since their self-titled 2022 album. May LGBTQ music: Isaiah Rashad’s ‘It’s Been Awful’ and MUNA’s ‘Dancing On the Wall’

Crime

  • suspect in Brooklyn hate crimeBrooklyn hate crime suspect cuffed in the Bronx for fare evasion: cops
  • Grammy-winning musician Lil Nas X leaves court after a preliminary hearing on four felony charges for allegedly assaulting and resisting police officers responding to an incident in August when police approached him while he was reportedly walking nearly naked on the streets of Los Angeles, in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California, U.S. March 12, 2026. Lil Nas X agrees to maintain treatment in two-year deal to drop charges
  • Aljo Mrkulic was sentenced for murdering Christopher Rodriguez, assaulting cops, and setting an apartment ablaze in 2020 at the Acacia Gardens affordable housing complex, which is located at 409 E. 120th St. in Harlem. Queens man sentenced for killing partner, assaulting cops in 2020 arson case
  • Bomb threats, sent via email, targeted the New York University campus on the morning of Jan. 22, the school announced. Anti-LGBTQ bomb threats target NYU, prompting NYPD to increase security
  • The person suspected of voicing anti-LGBTQ slurs and attacking an individual on a 6 train on Jan. 10. Man suffers anti-LGBTQ subway attack after kissing trans partner: police

Perspectives

  • Martha Shelley reads to the audience at the LGBT Community Center on Oct. 15, 2023. Past triumphs, present challenges: Reflections on the fight for LGBTQ rights — and what comes next
  • Callen-Lorde staff members. Health equity for LGBTQ+ New Yorkers starts with primary care
  • Andy Humm and Ruth Messinger in the aftermath of the passage of New York City's gay rights bill. Forty years since New Yorkers won gay rights, the fight for justice is more urgent than ever
  • Katie Blum is underscoring the importance of funding to make sure New York's legal system respects transgender individuals when they seek to align their legal documents with their gender identity. Access to justice is essential for transgender New Yorkers — and it depends on the IOLA Fund 
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