Tracy E. Gilchrist (she/her) is VP, Editorial and Special Projects for equalpride. She was the editor in chief of The Advocate from March 2020 to August 2022. During her tenure as EIC, she led The Advocate print team to win the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Magazine Overall Coverage for 2021. A media veteran, she writes about the intersections of LGBTQ+ equality and pop culture.
Gilchrist cocreated The Advocates podcast in 2017 and the virtual talk show Inside With the Advocate in 2020. A go-to moderator, she’s helmed discussions with the casts and directors of The Favourite, Booksmart, Euphoria, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Hightown, and more. In 2019, she hosted the official red-carpet livestream for Showtime’s The L Word: Generation Q premiere. Gilchrist has delivered her talk, Pandora’s Box to Pose: Gamechanging LGBTQ+ Visibility in Film and TV, at universities throughout the country.
She was named one of Mount Holyoke College’s alums to watch in 2020 and honored as one of AdWeek’s Pride Stars for 2022. Gilchrist is passionate about giving back to LGBTQ+ people and has participated in AIDS Lifecycle seven times, raising more than $35,000 to help end HIV/AIDS.