Gay City News: Serving gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender New YorkGay City News: Serving gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender New York
  • Jobs
  • News
    • All
    • Arts
    • Crime
    • Politics
    • Perspectives
  • Things to Do
    • Local Events
    • Post an Event
    • Business Events
    • Games
  • Contact Us
  • Digital Editions
  • Webinars
  • Podcasts
Gay City News: Serving gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender New YorkGay City News: Serving gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender New York
  • Jobs
  • News
    • All
    • Arts
    • Crime
    • Politics
    • Perspectives
  • Things to Do
    • Local Events
    • Post an Event
    • Business Events
    • Games
  • Contact Us
  • Digital Editions
  • Webinars
  • Podcasts
Gay City News: Serving gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender New YorkGay City News: Serving gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender New York
  • News
  • All
  • Arts
  • Crime
  • Politics
  • Perspectives
  • Things to Do
  • Local Events
  • Post an Event
  • Business Events
  • Games
  • Jobs
  • Contact Us
  • Digital Editions
  • Webinars
  • Podcasts

About the Author

Matt Tracy

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

  • 718-260-4583
Liberty star Breanna Stewart celebrates during the Oct. 24 parade.
Sports

Queer joy: New York Liberty showered with love at jubilant WNBA championship parade

By Matt Tracy & Donna Aceto
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra
Health

Biden administration looks to require insurance coverage of injectable PrEP

By Matt Tracy
Assemblymember Jessica González-Rojas delivers remarks at the Oct. 21 rally for Proposal 1 outside City Hall.
Politics

LGBTQ leaders and advocates encourage New Yorkers to vote yes on Proposal 1

By Matt Tracy
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's survey on transgender students included 20,000 responses.
Youth

CDC survey says 3.3% of high school students identify as transgender

By Matt Tracy
New York Liberty forward Breanna Stewart (30) shoots as Minnesota Lynx guard Kayla McBride (21) defends during the second half of game three of the 2024 WNBA Finals at Target Center on Oct. 16.
Sports

Liberty star Breanna Stewart faces homophobic threat during WNBA finals

By Matt Tracy
Proposal 1, or the Equal Rights Amendment, is on the ballot this election day.
From the Editor

Reject the misinformation and vote yes on Prop 1 

By Matt Tracy
Shane Tull, Uche Onwa, and Dr. Julian Watkins during a panel discussion at The New School's Tisch Auditorium during the 2024 In My Mind Conference.
Health

Conference panel tackles intersection of immigration, mental health, and race

By Matt Tracy
Honee Daniels, 37, died in a hit-and-run in Rochester on Oct. 2.
Crime

Rochester community mourns Black trans woman killed in hit-and-run

By Matt Tracy
A view of the national anthem before game three between the Philadelphia Phillies and the New York Mets in the NLDS for the 2024 MLB Playoffs at Citi Field.
Sports

Trump campaign blankets MLB playoff games with transphobic ads against Harris

By Matt Tracy
Elisa Crespo speaks during the 2021 Gay City News Impact Awards.
New York City

Elisa Crespo named executive director of Stonewall Community Foundation

By Matt Tracy
Congregation Beit SImchat Torah's day-long event on the anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack.
Religion

Marking one year since Oct. 7, CBST acknowledges members ‘in their full humanity’

By Matt Tracy
Mayor Adams leaves Manhattan Federal Court on Oct. 2.
Politics

Stonewall Democratic Club of New York City tells Mayor Adams to resign

By Matt Tracy
New Yorkers will have the opportunity to vote on the New York Equal Rights Amendment in November.
Legal

What the statewide ballot proposal could mean for LGBTQ rights in New York

By Matt Tracy
Wikimedia Commons/Ajay Suresh The In My Mind Conference will be held at The New School.
Health

In My Mind Conference to bring attention to mental health among LGBTQ people of color

By Matt Tracy
Advocates in Manhattan warn the World Bank against financing projects in Uganda due to the country's anti-LGBTQ law.
Activism

In Manhattan, LGBTQ activists warn World Bank against funding Uganda

By Matt Tracy
New York City Mayor Eric Adams speaks to the press outside his official residence, Gracie Mansion, after he was charged with bribery and illegally soliciting a campaign contribution from a foreign national, in New York City, U.S. September 26, 2024.
Politics

LGBTQ lawmakers call on Mayor Adams to resign after federal indictment

By Matt Tracy
1 … 20 21 22 … 119

Jobs in New York

Add your job

  • MDG Design & Construction LLCSection 3 Work Opportunity
  • MDG Design & ConstructionM/WBE Work Opportunity
  • Clearsound HearingMedical- Front desk Administrator

View all jobs…

LGBTQ+ events in NYC

Post an Event

A fundraising show for atticwife, a new
Tomorrow, 7 pm

girly night with atticwife <3
Young Ethel’s

Introducing Open Mic Nights at Housing W
May 26, 5 pm

Open Mic Tuesdays at Housing Works Bookstore & Cafe
Housing Works Bookstore Cafe

Wanna win a $50 bar tab and show your sm
May 26, 8 pm

Queer Trivia Extravaganza @ Good Judy
good judy

Step into the spotlight again for one ni
May 27, 7 pm

Miss Robusta’s Reel to Real: From Film to Footlights
The Stonewall Inn

​Need a place to wear your Liberty jerse
May 27, 7:30 pm

Sports Adjacent: Free Weekly Comedy
Blazers Sports Bar

World Dance Celebration at Ailey Extensi
May 28, midnight

World Dance Performance Workshops
Ailey Extension

Get ready to witness an unforgettable ni
May 28, 9:30 pm

Superstar Open Set
Pink Metal

A celebration of queer expression, Hehe
May 28, 10:30 pm

Hehe with GG – Masc4May
The Sultan Room

View All Events…

Sign up for our regular & breaking news updates.

Subscribe

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 
  • From L to R: Michael-Vincent Crea, Thomas O’Grady, Michael Kane, Caitlin Herrity, Jack Schlossberg, Clover Welsh, Layla Law Gisiko, David Warren, Brendan Fay, Dr. John Lahey, Aaron Pesin, Abby Donley, Nicholas Dodd, Sheila and Meghan Brophy on Fifth Avenue. Lavender and Green Alliance celebrates 10 years in NYC St. Patrick’s Day Parade

LGBTQ+ events in NYC

New York’s Job Board

More from Around NYC

cuyler gore park ribbon cutting
Brooklyn Paper

180-year-old Cuyler Gore Park gets new playground, spray showers and seating in $5M renovation

KendraHemsHeadshot
Bronx Times

Opinion | Congestion pricing is here to stay. Let’s fix what it has broken in the South Bronx

U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Nimitz is anchored in the Guanabara Bay as part of the Southern Seas 2026 deployment for joint naval exercises, while the Brazilian Navy conducts radiological monitoring operations near its position, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil May 8, 2026.
Caribbean Life

US says it views oil-rich Suriname as strategic ally

President Donald Trump in Suffern, NY
AMNY

Op-ed | President Trump’s obscene weaponization scam

  • About
  • Contact Us
  • Networking Events
  • Advertise
  • © Gay City News 2026. Schneps Media
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use
  • Sections
  • Jobs
  • Games
  • Events
  • Contact