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

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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
Corey Briskin and Nicholas Maggipinto have been fighting for their right to receive IVF services to build a family.
Health

Class action lawsuit accuses NYC of refusing IVF coverage for gay men

By Matt Tracy
Youth

Boy Scouts of America is rebranding. Here’s why they will be named Scouting America

By Jamie Stengle, AP
Marvel Comics' Pride Month collection includes a "Captain America" cover.
Arts

Marvel Comics to roll out series of Pride covers in June

By Matt Tracy
Craig Slutzkin was among the candidates re-elected to Community Education Council District 2.
Education

Community Board 5 member ousted over anti-trans resolution: source

By Matt Tracy
NYC AIDS Memorial

NYC AIDS Memorial announces Pride Month events

By Matt Tracy
Former NYC Anti-Violence Project executive director Beverly Tillery.
News

Anti-Violence Project fires executive director, pauses fundraising amid internal turmoil

By Matt Tracy
NYC Pride in 2018.

Seven grand marshals announced for NYC Pride 2024

By Matt Tracy
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and a host of elected officials gathered in November of 2023 to announce the Hate Crimes Modernization Act.
Politics

New York State approves bill to broaden hate crimes law

By Matt Tracy
The flyer for PrEP4All's No Pants Gala.
Health

PrEP4All to host ‘no pants’ fundraiser for HIV prevention advocacy

By Matt Tracy
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra
Health

Biden administration finalizes rule restoring LGBTQ healthcare protections

By Matt Tracy
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Marble Collegiate Church welcomes you to
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It’s Pride Month at Marble Collegiate Church
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“Flood,” the award-winning directorial d
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Documentary About Family Reconciliation w/ Q&As on Chosen Families at DCTV
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Art gathering on June 21st, 4 to 7pm Ben
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Art gathering on June 21st, 4 to 7pm Ben Bregman and Kellie Peach Art Party!
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On April 23, 1961, Judy Garland took the
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Judy Garland is Fat at Carnegie Hall at the Queerly Festival
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Don’t Cry For Me, My Yeshiva
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The Leopard and the Lynx at the Queerly Festival
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Queer Family Building: The Full Picture
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Arts

  • Alice Kremelberg, director Adrienne Campbell-Holt, playwright Victoria Lynne Barclay, and Colby Minifie. ‘Camping’: Love and repression in an intimate tent setting
  • Myra Molloy as Sonya and Maya Da Costa as Coley in “Girls Like Girls." In ‘Girls Like Girls,’ Hayley Kiyoko turns from sapphic pop star to filmmaker, telling the same story
  • Downtown Boys. June LGBTQ music: Downtown Boys’ ‘Public Luxury’ and Andrew Sa’s ‘American Rough’
  • “The Devil Queen,” directed by Antonio Carlos da Fontoura, opens June 19 at the Alamo Lower Manhattan. Colorful costumes, drag queens, and bloodletting: Brazilian gangster film ‘The Devil Queen’ gets 4k restoration
  • Director Saheem Ali's Public Theater production of “Romeo and Juliet." Central Park comes alive with ‘Romeo and Juliet’

Crime

  • Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez holds a press conference on August 10, 2023 to announce an indictment in the stabbing death of O'Shae Sibley, a gay man who was killed at a Brooklyn gas station. Man convicted of manslaughter in death of O’Shae Sibley
  • sketch of bigot behind lower east side hate crimeCops hunt Lower East Side bigot who beat boy with belt after anti-LGBTQ+ hate tirade
  • A picture shows the late O'Shae Sibley during a demonstration in Brooklyn after he was killed there in an alleged anti-LGBTQ attack. Man charged with killing gay dancer O’Shae Sibley claims self-defense
  • 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

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

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