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Matt Tracy

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

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Advocates hoist the Rainbow Flag on the first day of Pride Month.
Pride

Rainbow Flags fly at Stonewall National Monument for Pride Month

By Matt Tracy
The scene at Bronx Pride in 2023.
Pride

Bronx Pride festival and march scheduled for June 22

By Matt Tracy
State Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal (second from left) stands with representatives from Ryan Health at Ryan Chelsea-Clinton location on May 31.
Health

Hoylman-Sigal funds mpox vaccines for Pride Month at Ryan Health

By Matt Tracy
Tayy Dior Thomas of Alabama was killed on May 7.
Crime

Several transgender women killed across US in May

By Matt Tracy
The New Queens Pride float in 2023.
Pride

Guide to Pride in Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island 

By Matt Tracy
Trailblazers Park in July of 2022.
New York State

Fire Island’s Trailblazers Park set to showcase 16 LGBTQ icons 

By Matt Tracy
Harvey Milk sits at Mayor George Moscone's desk in 1978.
History

On Harvey Milk Day, remember his New York roots

By Matt Tracy
Business

GLAAD report gives most social media platforms ‘F’ grade

By Matt Tracy
The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's offices in Long Island City, Queens.
Health

Council, non-profits sound alarm as city proposes $5 million cut to HIV/AIDS services

By Matt Tracy
Brighton Beach Pride's lead banner moves along the Riegelmann Boardwalk in southern Brooklyn.
Pride

Eighth annual Brighton Beach Pride March takes over southern Brooklyn

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

Study outlines positive impact of 20 years of marriage equality in America

By Matt Tracy
Advocates at a 2020 rally to decriminalize sex work in New York.
Politics

Activists, lawmakers mount fresh push to decriminalize sex work in New York

By Matt Tracy
Politics

Trump vows to ‘end’ Biden’s protections for trans students ‘on day one’

By Matt Tracy
City Health Commissioner Ashwin Vasan speaks alongside then-New York State Health Commissioner Mary T. Bassett (left) and Raj Panjabi, then the coordinator of the White House Pandemic Office (right), at an mpox press conference outside of the city's Harlem clinic on July 7, 2022.
Health

Mpox cases ticking up yet again in NYC, health officials warn

By Matt Tracy
Marchers pack in behind the Reclaim Pride Coalition's Queer Liberation March banner.
Pride

Reclaim Pride Coalition announces route for 2024 Queer Liberation March

By Matt Tracy
Pride merchandise on display at a Target store in Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn, New York, in May of 2023.
Business

Target plans to limit Pride merchandise again this year

By Matt Tracy
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Celebrate Pride Month at Drag Queen Stor
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Aviva and Friends Presents: Drag Queen Storytime
Brooklyn Heights Library

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Tomorrow, 7 pm

Book Launch with Author Dan McClellan at The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine
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June 11, 6 pm

35th Annual Village Awards
Cooper Union

On June 4th and 11th, THERE’S A RIOT GOI
June 11, 9:30 pm

THERE’S A RIOT GOING ON!: The Real Music & True Story of Stonewall
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Arts

  • From right to left: Santino DeAngelo, Erik Bottcher, Francis Jue, Carlina Rivera, Caissie Levy, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Tom Kirdahy, Brandon Uranowitz, Stephen Flaherty, Donna Murphy, Jonathan Groff, and Lynn Ahrens. Stars and neighbors come out for Terrence McNally Way
  • “I Don’t Understand You," directed by Brian Crano and David Joseph Craig, opens June 6 at the Regal Union Square, the AMC Kips Bay, the AMC Empire 25, and the AMC Lincoln Square. Q&A with ‘I Don’t Understand You’ directors Brian Crano and David Joseph Craig
  • June LGBTQ music: Cynthia Erivo and Lucy Liyou
  • Rob Madge ‘My Son’s a Queer’ finally making NYC debut
  • Crisco dancers in 1979, as depicted in the book "Queer Happened Here." A new wave of books celebrating queer spaces

Crime

  • Photographs and candles pay tribute to the late Cecilia Gentili during a memorial service at Judson Memorial Church in Manhattan on Feb. 7, 2024. Man sentenced to 19 years in connection with death of activist Cecilia Gentili
  • Robert DeMaio, Jacob Barroso, and Jayqwan Hamilton at their sentencing on May 21. Three sentenced for robbing and killing gay men in nightlife scheme
  • Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg on sentencing of Donald TrumpMan sentenced to 8 years for deadly Manhattan nightclub druggings in robbery scheme: Bragg
  • Sam Nordquist was 24 years old. Sam Nordquist’s alleged killers accused of forcing children to torture him
  • Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. Manhattan DA’s Office looks to reverse trend of anti-LGBTQ hate crimes

Perspectives

  • A picture depicting the late Pope Francis and Pope Leo XIV prior to his election is displayed as Bishop Edinson Edgardo Farfan Cordova speaks during a press conference, following the election of Pope Leo XIV, in Chiclayo, Peru, May 9, 2025. Thoughts on popes, old and new — and their surprises on LGBTQ issues
  • Carmen Hernandez. Patients and employers pay more as healthcare conglomerates profit from federal program meant to serve vulnerable communities
  • A view of the front steps of New York City Hall. Four cheers and five jeers to the City Council’s vote on trans protections
  • The entrance of Mount Morris Baths. What it was like to work at Harlem’s Mount Morris Baths, an uptown refuge
  • Cornelius Wiggins is the youth community engagement coordinator at the NYC LGBT Community Center. Finding my way: the struggles and strength of transgender youth in NYC

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