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Matt Tracy

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

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Attendees surround the Stonewall Inn during a vigil for Nex Benedict.
Activism

Hundreds mourn Nex Benedict at fiery Stonewall vigil

By Matt Tracy
The New York City Lunar New Year For All contingent.
New York City

Lunar New Year for All contingent marks Year of the Dragon

By Matt Tracy
The 2023 St. Pat's for All Banner.
News

St. Pat’s for All scheduled for March 3 in Sunnyside and Woodside

By Matt Tracy
Crime

Man guilty in Black transgender woman’s killing in 1st federal hate crime trial over gender identity

By James Pollard, AP/Report for America
Advocates and members of the Pride Center of Staten Island stand together in 2022 after applying unsuccessfully to march in the borough's St. Patrick's Day Parade.
New York City

New Staten Island St. Patrick’s Day Parade to welcome LGBTQ groups

By Matt Tracy
Nex Benedict.
Crime

‘We must demand justice’: Non-binary teen’s death in Oklahoma sparks national attention

By Matt Tracy
Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman.
Sports

Nassau County executive’s ban on trans athletes sparks outrage

By Matt Tracy
Ramzan Kadyrov is the mastermind behind the Chechen anti-LGBTQ purge.
From the Editor

The NYPD should stop playing games with anti-LGBTQ regimes

By Matt Tracy
St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan.
Religion

Archdiocese of New York criticizes Cecilia Gentili’s funeral at St. Patrick’s Cathedral

By Matt Tracy
National

Despite many LGBTQ gamers, video games lack representation

By Matt Tracy
The Human Rights Campaign's headquarters in Washington, DC.
Youth

HRC report sheds light on experiences of Black LGBTQ youth

By Matt Tracy
Cecilia Gentili at an mpox-related demonstration in July of 2022.
Remembrance

Friends and family bid farewell to Cecilia Gentili at St. Patrick’s Cathedral

By Matt Tracy
NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban visited Dubai after members of the department's emergency services unit traveled there earlier this year.
International

NYPD competed with anti-LGBTQ Chechen authorities in Dubai

By Matt Tracy
Steve Ostrow opened the Continental Baths in the basement of this building at 2109 Broadway.
Remembrance

Steve Ostrow, founder of NYC’s Continental Baths, dies at 91

By Matt Tracy
Television

GLAAD: Super Bowl commercials showed more LGBTQ representation, but still fell short

By Matt Tracy
Politics

Statehouses and AGs continue attacks on trans Americans

By Matt Tracy
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Arts

  • Daniel Craig in "Wake Up Dead Man." ‘Wake Up Dead Man’: Two steps forward, one step back
  • "Emolsa," from Lola Flash's "Unsung Fire Island" series. Lola Flash’s ‘Believable’ inaugurates a new art collaboration and sees a New York future
  • James Harry Reyos in “Night in West Texas.”  ‘Night in West Texas’: Underwhelming story of a priest’s death and a wrongful conviction
  • Kristen Chenoweth as Jackie Siegel in “The Queen of Versailles." Meandering and unfocused, ‘The Queen of Versailles’ collapses under its own weight
  • “Peaches Goes Bananas," directed by Marie Loisier, opened at Anthology Film Archives Dec. 3. ‘Peaches Goes Bananas’ presents three-dimensional portrait of a queer rock star

Crime

  • 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
  • The corner of New Lots Ave. and Vermont St. in Brooklyn is where an alleged anti-LGBTQ attack took place on Oct. 5. Woman hit with a chair in alleged anti-LGBTQ attack in Brooklyn
  • Jacob Zieben-Hood, 34, was found dead hours after he allegedly told his father by phone that his husband was targeting him with knives. Manhattan DA charges man in series of alleged attacks against slain husband
  • Penn Station on Aug. 27, 2025. Lawmakers demand answers from Amtrak after hundreds of arrests at Penn Station men’s bathroom

Perspectives

  • A gender equitable city is a stronger New York for everyone
  • AIDS Walk New York in 2025. Forty years later, the unequal impact of HIV persists — and we refuse to accept it
  • The Caribbean Equality Project team at their inaugural gala on Sept. 19. Caribbean Equality Project celebrates a decade of resistance and belonging
  • The right to use the bathroom is increasingly under threat in New York City. Stop the disgraceful attacks on bathrooms
  • Erik Bottcher at his 2021 election night party at The Chelsea Bell. Erik Bottcher is the voice we need in Congress

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