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Matt Tracy

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

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Bella Ramsey speaks to reporters. A person in a suit is standing in the background.
Television

Primetime Emmy nominations feature LGBTQ representation

By Matt Tracy
Lee Soulja-Simmons delivers remarks during NYC Black Pride's 2022 Heritage Image Awards.
Pride

NYC Black Pride, slated for mid-August, presses on despite budget cuts

By Matt Tracy
Christopher Park.
National

National Park Service website erases bisexual representation from Stonewall National Monument site

By Matt Tracy
US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. listens at a Make Oklahoma Healthy Again kickoff event at the Oklahoma State Capitol in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S. June 26, 2025.
Health

RFK abruptly cancels meeting of task force responsible for determining preventive services

By Matt Tracy
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks to the media alongside US President Donald Trump in the Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington D.C., June 27, 2025.
Health

DOJ probes providers of youth gender-affirming care

By Matt Tracy
People sit on the lawn of Washington Square Park after the 2025 NYC Pride March in New York City, June 29, 2025.
New York State

Report outlines New York State’s LGBTQ population and highlights disparities

By Matt Tracy
US President Donald Trump uses a gavel after signing the sweeping spending and tax legislation, known as the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 4, 2025.
Politics

Anti-trans provisions scrapped from Trump’s massive bill 

By Matt Tracy
Outside of The Monster in Greenwich Village.
Crime

Man allegedly brandishes knife, defaces Pride sign in Greenwich Village: NYPD

By Matt Tracy
Advocates gather at City Hall on May 22 to seek millions in funding in the city budget to support trans New Yorkers.
New York City

‘Historic win’: LGBTQ groups, lawmakers praise city budget for funding trans health, LGBTQ initiatives

By Matt Tracy
The replenishment oiler USNS Harvey Milk (T-AO 206) transits San Francisco Bay during a namesake visit to San Francisco in 2024.
Military

Blaming Biden, Hegseth renames USNS Harvey Milk

By Matt Tracy
Rainbow balloons float in the air ahead of the NYC Pride March on the morning of June 29.
Pride

PHOTOS: Pride Sunday festivities in Manhattan

By Matt Tracy
The 2025 NYC Pride March lined the streets of Manhattan in commemoration of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising.
Pride

NYC Pride March brings the heat on a sizzling Sunday in Manhattan

By Matt Tracy
A general view of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, U.S., June 1, 2024.
Health

Sigh of relief after Supreme Court upholds PrEP coverage, other preventive services

By Matt Tracy
A view of the US Supreme Court building in Washington, U.S., June 1, 2024.
Legal

Citing religion, Supreme Court rules parents can opt students out of LGBTQ storybooks

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

Report sheds light on 10 years of marriage equality in the United States

By Matt Tracy
At the Queer Liberation March in 2022.
From the Editor

Pride is resilience, liberation, community, and identity

By Matt Tracy
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For the first time, The Heckscher Museum
Sept. 12, noon

All of Me with All of You: LGBTQ+ Art Out of the Collection
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Arts

  • “The History of Sound,” directed by Oliver Hermanus, opens Sept. 12th. In ‘The History of Sound,’ love and music are drowned in grief
  • In “Sk+te’kmukue’katik (At the Place of Ghosts)," an unresolved past trauma haunts an individual and his brother. Queer-themed films premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival
  • Curators P. Henry (left) and Sal Kimura (right) have been working to uncover LGBTQ history through their project, “Queer Archeology: Reflections on Communal History." New York Public Library curators highlight lesser-known queer history
  • A club room at Ridgewood nightclub Earthly Delights, which is transitioning to a private event-only venue before ultimately closing on Nov. 30. Ridgewood nightclub Earthy Delights celebrates one-year anniversary amid looming closure
  • Ann Harada, Julie Halston, Anika Larsen, and Jackie Hoffman in "Finding Dorothy Parker." Douglas Carter Beane’s ‘Finding Dorothy Parker’ revives the legacy of a witty 1920s writer

Crime

  • Law enforcement officers set up barriers after a shooting at Annunciation Church, which is also home to an elementary school, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. August 27, 2025. In wake of Minneapolis shooting, White House falsely suggests link between gender-affirming care and violence
  • Convicted rapist of transgender woman in Manhattan walks in handcuffs.Convicted Manhattan rapist gets 12 years in prison, feels wrath of his transgender victim at sentencing hearing
  • U.S. rapper Lil Nas X, alongside his attorney Christy O'Connor, attends his arraignment at Los Angeles Superior Court in Los Angeles, California, U.S., August 25, 2025. Lil Nas X charged with four felonies after arrest in Los Angeles
  • The front of a white brick building representing the Middletown Police Department on a sunny day. DA: Middletown man lured Grindr date to his home in brutal stabbing attack
  • The Federal Bureau of Investigation seal on the J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 16, 2025. Anti-LGBTQ hate crimes persisted in 2024: FBI data

Perspectives

  • Émilia Decaudin For New York to remain a queer haven, we must build more homes
  • Ronald Porcelli is the director of the NYC Unity Project. How the NYC Unity Project’s Family Acceptance of LGBTQ+ Youth Initiative heals families and saves LGBTQ+ lives
  • The 2025 NYC Dyke March. Letter to the editor: NYC Dyke March’s policy represents deliberate exclusion rooted in religious and political identity
  • At the Queer Liberation March in 2022. Pride is resilience, liberation, community, and identity
  • 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

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