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

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Queerity, an app debuting on Feb. 19, aims to help the queer sober community find connections ranging from romantic partners to friends.
Business

‘Chemistry without chemicals’: Queerity app aims to connect the LGBTQ sober community

By Matt Tracy
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell speaks during a Super Bowl LX press conference at San Jose Convention Center on Feb. 2, 2026.
Sports

GLAAD teaming up with NFL for ‘Road to Pride’ event ahead of Super Bowl LX

By Matt Tracy
Erik Bottcher will represent District 47 in the State Senate.
Politics

Erik Bottcher wins special election to fill Brad Hoylman-Sigal’s State Senate seat

By Matt Tracy
Don Lemon attends the premiere of the fourth season of the "The Morning Show" in New York City, U.S., September 9, 2025.
National

Federal agents arrest Don Lemon in connection with St. Paul church protest

By Matt Tracy
Carolina Hurricanes defenseman Alexander Nikishin (21) skates with the puck against the Chicago Blackhawks first period at Lenovo Center. Mandatory Credit:
Sports

USA Hockey faces backlash for quietly restricting trans athletes

By Matt Tracy
The State Capitol building in Albany.
Health

New York State Senate votes to stop IVF discrimination against queer couples

By Matt Tracy
Demonstrators carry signs condemning Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) near the site where a man identified as Alex Pretti was fatally shot by federal agents trying to detain him, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S., January 24, 2026. REUTERS/Tim Evans
Legal

Hetrick-Martin Institute publishes know-your-rights guide amid nationwide ICE crackdown

By Matt Tracy
Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks during a press briefing on the city’s preparations for a snowstorm at the New York City Emergency Management Department on Jan. 23.
Books

Thousands download ‘Heated Rivalry’ from NYPL after Mamdani’s snowstorm suggestion

By Matt Tracy
The Pentagon is seen from the air in Washington, U.S., March 3, 2022.
Military

Pentagon stops training HIV-positive recruits ahead of potential ban: report

By Matt Tracy
Anthony Nicodemo at the Gay City News Impact Awards in 2017.
Sports

LGBTQ Sports Hall of Fame announces 2026 inductees

By Matt Tracy
The stage at PrideFest 2025.
Pride

NYC Pride announces 2026 theme: ‘For All of Us’

By Matt Tracy
Bomb threats, sent via email, targeted the New York University campus on the morning of Jan. 22, the school announced.
Crime

Anti-LGBTQ bomb threats target NYU, prompting NYPD to increase security

By Matt Tracy
US President Donald Trump looks on before departing for Florida from the South Lawn, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., January 16, 2026.
Politics

How Trump targeted trans rights and the broader LGBTQ community in his first year back in office

By Matt Tracy
The Madison Square Garden jumbotron lit up in rainbow colors during Knicks' Pride Night in 2020.
Sports

Knicks set to host Pride Night at Madison Square Garden Jan. 27

By Matt Tracy
The person suspected of voicing anti-LGBTQ slurs and attacking an individual on a 6 train on Jan. 10.
Crime

Man suffers anti-LGBTQ subway attack after kissing trans partner: police

By Matt Tracy
Brian Romero, seen here at a rally for trans youth on Jan. 10, is running for office in the 34th Assembly District.
Politics

Queer progressive Brian Romero vies for Queens Assembly seat

By Matt Tracy
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Arts

  • “Billy Preston: That’s The Way God Planned It," directed by Paris Barclay, opens Feb. 20 at Film Forum. ‘Billy Preston: That’s The Way God Planned It’ charts the rise and fall of a troubled gay musician
  • Beverly Glenn-Copeland's latest release is called “Laughter In Summer." February LGBTQ music: Troye Sivan and Beverly Glenn-Copeland
  • Grammy Award-winning tenor Freddie Ballentine. At 92nd Street Y, ‘Our People’ delivers an operatic tribute to Black queer experiences
  • The culminating piece of the exhibit is a 14th century German statue borrowed from the Cleveland Museum of Art, depicting Jesus and John the Baptist in the style of a married couple. The plaque describes how medieval viewers would have seen their relationship as a form of marriage “with Jesus in the role of the groom” and one that “stretched gender roles and sexual identities.” The Met’s Cloisters Museum offers a delightedly queer-inclusive analysis of sexuality in the Middle Ages
  • After gradually rolling out episodes, the full second of "The Boyfriend" is now available on Netflix. A second date with ‘The Boyfriend’: Gay Japanese reality show returns to Netflix for Season 2

Crime

  • 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
  • Police tape surrounds a vehicle after its driver was shot by a U.S. immigration agent, according to local and federal officials, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S., January 7, 2026. ‘They killed my wife’: Outrage follows fatal ICE shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis
  • Report details allegations of police harassment against LGBTQ New Yorkers
  • President Donald Trump said he commuted George Santos' prison sentence in a Truth Social post.Santos is back with a ‘large slice of humble pie’ following Trump’s commutation

Perspectives

  • The bare flagpole at the Stonewall National Monument on Feb. 10. We will not be erased: Donald Trump’s theft of our Rainbow Flag won’t fly
  • Steven Love Menendez (second from right) with Randy Wicker (center) and park rangers in front of the flagpole at the Stonewall National Monument in 2022 — during the Biden administration. The Rainbow Flag and the heart and soul of Stonewall
  • A banner at the Reclaim Pride Coalition's Queer Liberation March. Four decades in, Black communities are still paying the highest price from HIV — and inaction is not an option
  • Mark Milano. Remembering Mark Milano, a committed activist in the fight against HIV/AIDS
  • A gender equitable city is a stronger New York for everyone

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