About me
Tracy E. Gilchrist (she/her) is VP, Editorial and Special Projects for equalpride, the parent company of The Advocate and Out magazines. She was the editor in chief of The Advocate from March 2020 to August 2022. As EIC, she led The Advocate print team to win the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Magazine Overall Coverage for 2021 and 2022. A media veteran, she writes about the intersections of LGBTQ+ equality and pop culture. Her cover stories for The Advocate and Out magazines include profiles of Cynthia Erivo, Brandi Carlile, Ariana DeBose, Harvey Guillen, and Janelle Monáe. In 2024, her Wicked interview with Erivo and Ariana Grande became the viral “holding space” sensation.
Gilchrist created the virtual talk show Inside With the Advocate in 2020 and co-created The Advocates podcast in 2017. As a moderator, she’s helmed discussions with the casts and directors of Love Lies Bleeding, The Favourite, Euphoria, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, It’s a Sin, 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: Game-changing LGBTQ+ Visibility in Film and TV, at universities throughout the country.
She joined the board of It Gets Better in 2024, was honored as one of AdWeek’s Pride Stars for 2022, and named one of Mount Holyoke College’s alums to watch in 2020. Gilchrist is passionate about giving back to LGBTQ+ people and has participated in AIDS Lifecycle seven times, raising more than $35,000.
