Pop Culture TRIVIA with Tracy E. Gilchrist

Join us for LGBTQIA+ Pop Culture Trivia 🌈✨ hosted by Tracy E. Gilchrist, famously known for her podcast Holding Space & former editor-in-chief of The Advocate magazine. All are welcome to come play on teams, win prizes, purchase food & drinks, and enjoy this night of fun. Meet us at Porta in Montclair! 🏳️‍🌈

Get tickets here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/outmontclair/2423941

About our host Tracy E. Gilchrist:
Tracy E. Gilchrist is known as host and executive producer of the Holding Space podcast, and former editor-in-chief of The Advocate—leading it to win the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Magazine Overall Coverage for 2021 and 2022. A media veteran gone viral in 2024 with her Wicked “holding space” interview with Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, she writes about the intersections of LGBTQ+ equality and pop culture. Her cover stories for The Advocate and Out magazines include profiles of artists, including Erivo, Brandi Carlile, Ariana DeBose, Cynthia Nixon, Harvey Guillen, and Janelle Monáe.

Gilchrist co-created 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 Boots, Love Lies Bleeding, The Favourite, Euphoria, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Mother Play on Broadway, and dozens 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.

Since her viral interview, Gilchrist was named to the board of It Gets Better in 2024 and made an honorary member of the New York City Gay Men’s Chorus in 2025. In 2022, she was named one of AdWeek’s Pride Stars and one of Mount Holyoke College’s Alums to Watch Out For in 2020. 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 and AIDS.