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Matt Tracy

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

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Rickie Trawick and Ellen Trawick, the parents of Kawaski Trawick, standing outside NYPD headquarters on April 24, 2023.
New York City

Police officers in Kawaski Trawick case begin NYPD disciplinary trial

By Matt Tracy
The Reclaim Pride Coalition's 2021 Queer Liberation March.
Pride

Reclaim Pride unveils theme for fifth annual Queer Liberation March

By Matt Tracy
Politics

House Republicans pass anti-trans sports bill

By Matt Tracy
Kawaski Trawick was 32 years old when he was killed in his apartment.
Crime

Trawick family blasts reports of dropped charge against officers before disciplinary trial

By Matt Tracy
Health

Missouri to limit gender-affirming care for minors, adults

By Summer Ballentine and Heather Hollingsworth, AP
Congressmember Adriano Espaillat cuts the ribbon at NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan on April 12.
Health

H+H opens Pride Health Center at Metropolitan Hospital

By Matt Tracy
Kawaski Trawick's mother, Ellen Trawick (left), with the family's attorney, Royce Russell (right), at NYPD headquarters on April 12.
New York City

Four years later, Kawaski Trawick’s family demands accountability at NYPD HQ

By Matt Tracy
Mitch Kellaway (right), then the publisher of Transgress Press, with brother Owen at the 2014 Rainbow Book Fair.
Books

Rainbow Book Fair slated to return after two years off

By Matt Tracy
Health

Anti-trans laws imperil gender-affirming care for 140k+ youth

By Matt Tracy
The scene in the Village during Pride Sunday in 2021.
Health

New York State LGBTQ survey reveals demographic trends, health disparities

By Matt Tracy
Beyonce Karungi speaks in front of Uganda House.
International

From New York, advocates condemn Uganda’s anti-LGBTQ bill

By Matt Tracy & Adrian Childress
Legal

Supreme Court rules in favor of trans athlete in West Virginia

By Matt Tracy
The panelists as seen during a discussion about the recent federal court ruling's impact on the Affordable Care Act's preventative care requirements.
Health

New York leaders warn ACA preventative care ruling threatens access to care

By Matt Tracy
A Pride event at Yeshiva University in 2019.
From the Editor

Time to recognize the YU Pride Alliance

By Matt Tracy
Gilbert Baker's "DON'T BUY TRUMP'S LIES" banner crosses the street.
Crime

LGBTQ activists barnstorm Manhattan for Trump’s arrest

By Matt Tracy
The 2023 arrest of Robert Demaio in connection with the death of John Umberger.
Crime

Two men arrested in string of gay nightlife deaths

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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