Ann Arbor Summer Festival Lineup
This year marks the 35th consecutive Ann Arbor Summer Festival, a longstanding tradition that showcases some of the best of Ann Arbor's art and music scenes — with its fair share of national acts, too. [...]
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'It' girl Sophia Lillis cast as Ellen’s 'Nancy Drew' Franchise alert! Ellen Degeneres’ A Very Good Production and Warner Bros. are teaming up to produce something that sounds very much like the template for a [...]
Antoni, At Your Service: ‘Queer Eye’ Star on ‘Open’ Sexuality, Crop Tops & the Sexy Anatomy of a Coconut
Even though Antoni Porowski is known for his avocados, on a recent afternoon he was contemplating the coconut, every sultry detail of the tropical fruit meticulously combed like that of someone’s body during a first [...]
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By Romeo San Vicente Jennifer Aniston and Tig Notaro will be 'First Ladies' “Jennifer Aniston is very attractive…and I was just like, hey, how about….we’re married,” says lesbian comic Tig Notaro ("One Mississippi"). And now [...]
Jussie Smollett’s Empire State of Mind: Out Actor-Activist Talks Defying Hollywood Limitations, Using His Voice For Good, and Pride Past and Present
Really, aside from a fame-catapulting role on "Empire" and a dreamy croon so velvety you could rest your head on it at night, Jussie Smollett is just like you. Or was: He remembers going to [...]
Q&A: Jennifer Nettles Talks Celebrating the Queer Community with New Sugarland Album & Why ‘Tolerance’ Isn’t Enough
Just before releasing a hotly anticipated new album with Sugarland bandmate Kristian Bush, duo frontwoman Jennifer Nettles summed up her history of progressive politics and queer advocacy and love for chicken with one defiant tweet: [...]
A Greater, Bigger, More Authentic World: Duo’s Chad King on Fashion Shows, Forthcoming Album (Their ‘Arrival Moment’) and Being Gay in Music Today
While you were crying, out musician Chad King and his friend Ian Axel were figuring out their next move. Could A Great Big World, as they’re collectively known, strike twice with another colossal Christina Aguilera-assisted [...]
Dishin’ with the girls of ‘Casa Valentina’
Straight, White-Collar Men Escape Families and Dress as Women in JET Drama A story about the lives of women named Miranda, Bessie, Valentina, Charlotte, Gloria, Terry and Amy who meet regularly at their favorite vacation [...]
Screen Queen: Oscars at Home
Unforgettable Moments from Academy Award-Winning Gay Faves, Yours Forever to Stream Call Me By Your Name Oliver (Armie Hammer) is facedown on the bed, fully clothed. He’s just arrived at his professor’s (Michael Stuhlbarg) home [...]
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By Romeo San Vicente John Cameron Mitchell’s latest 'Anthem' Here comes your next favorite podcast. Topic Studios, the people who produced "Missing Richard Simmons," recently announced that they’re partnering with "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" [...]
Dan Reynolds Is On a Mission: Imagine Dragons Frontman Talks Being a Mormon LGBTQ Activist, Queer-Minded Music & Expanding LoveLoud
During the inaugural LoveLoud Festival in August 2017 on the campus of Utah Valley University in Orem, roughly 40 miles outside Salt Lake City, 17,000 people fell into the embrace of Dan Reynolds. Amid performances [...]
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More more more 'Tales of The City,' now with Ellen Page Just when you were fully annoyed and extremely tired and actually angry (hey, "Roseanne"!) at all the TV reboots and revivals, here comes the [...]
Q&A: Adam Rippon on Finding His Gay Power, What Inspires His Costume Design (‘Sex Stuff’) & His Post-Olympics Clapback For Guys Who Once Ghosted Him
“Yes, this is an interview,” a schoolgirl-giggly Adam Rippon deadpans to fellow figure skater Charlie White who, naturally, is curious about the current topic of conversation: sex and harnesses, and how both come together to [...]
Ain’t No Shame in Her Game
Jenifer Lewis to Visit Detroit: Tackles Stigma, Mental Illness in New Memoir If actress Jenifer Lewis ignites a sense of motherly affection from viewers, it’s certainly not by accident. After all, her portrayal of a [...]
Web Series Takes Authentic Approach to Trans People of Color
A new web series is currently shooting its first season in Detroit. "Femme Queen Chronicles" seeks to tell the story of four trans women of color living in the Motor City. Created by activist Ahya [...]
Rachel Weisz’s Quest for Queer Stories – and Why She Thinks It’s ‘Essential’ LGBTQ Films Reach Out to Gay Press
Rachel Weisz has strong feelings on makers of queer films discussing their work with queer media. To not do so, she says, would be “ridiculous and wrong and unthinkable.” The topic is broached in light [...]
I Found Love at a Lorde Concert. Just Not the Kind I Was Expecting.
The soundtrack of my love life as a full-grown gay man was written by a 21-year-old woman. I’m 35, so this is slightly concerning to my queer confidante. He doesn’t think I need to try [...]
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BY ROMEO SAN VICENTE Your Olympics Crush is 'Dancing With The Stars' No, we didn’t say which Olympics crush. That’s because the upcoming all-athletes season of "Dancing With the Stars" features several recent popular Olympic [...]
Artists Celebrate Queer and Trans Love Through Poetry, Photography
Through their poetry, photography and writing, the self-identified “alien femme” duo Alex Jenny and Effee Nelly showcase a fully-realized depiction of queer and transgender love in a decidedly unique way. The couple’s blog, appropriately titled [...]
Indigo Girls’ Emily Saliers Talks Empathy, Creativity and New Projects
Few artist are willing to take on topics as complex as the prison industrial complex, painkiller addiction and faith — let alone on one album — but the Indigo Girls certainly don't shy away from [...]
Q&A: Jessie Ware on Gaining Confidence from the Queer Community, Wig Snatching & Upcoming Dance Album
Jessie Ware only recently learned what “wig-snatching” means, and fresh off the European leg of her current tour, I’ve taught her “guncle.” The 33-year-old British songstress takes full advantage of this latest lesson in queer-speak, [...]
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'A League of Their Own' gets a show of its own Remember that part in "A League of Their Own" where Rosie O’Donnell talks about feeling different from the other women, and how that [...]
Our Lady Liberty: Hayley Kiyoko Talks Life, Lesbians and the Pursuit of Unabashed Queer Pop
Even lesbian Jesuses get swept up by the grandeur of the Statue of Liberty. “I’ve never seen it before! It’s huge! Oh my god, it’s huge!” enthuses a giddy-as-ever Hayley Kiyoko, proclaimed “the lesbian Jesus” [...]
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By Romeo San Vicente 'Love, Simon,' meet 'Love, Cecil' Zeitgeist Films and Kino Lorber have acquired the latest documentary from Lisa Immordino Vreeland ("Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel"). The film, "Love, Cecil," is [...]
‘OK, Pumpkin?’: Toni Braxton Isn’t Kidding About These Untold Stories – and the Janet and Mariah Duets That Could’ve Been
When you have seven Grammys and an iconic voice that can drop to ocean depths, it’s your God-given right to also have a no-wings-in-my-dressing-room policy. This is Toni Braxton in 2018, still decrying the existence of [...]
Trey Pearson Finds Community Through Queer-Affirming Music
Trey Pearson is living the out gay life he never thought he could. After 20 years as the frontman of the Christian rock band Everyday Sunday, Pearson — a father of two who was married [...]
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By Romeo San Vicente Ryan Murphy’s 'Pose' places trans actors front and center If we can all survive as a nation until summer, "Pose" will be here to see us through. The latest TV series [...]
Jennifer Garner Talks Emotional Reaction to ‘Love, Simon,’ Her Drag Queen Hairstylist and the Lesbian Role She Almost Had
Mothers of gay sons, Jennifer Garner is here to be your guide. As Emily Spier, whose 17-year-old, Simon (Nick Robinson), has recently come out to her and her husband (Josh Duhamel), the actress is a [...]
Q&A: Sandra Bernhard on Why She Supports Political Blasting of Trump-Themed ‘Roseanne’ and Kathy Griffin’s ‘Biggest Crime’
Before unloading her frank thoughts on TV co-star Roseanne Barr’s alt-right politics and fellow comic Kathy Griffin’s viral Trump-beheading pic (“It just wasn’t funny”), Sandra Bernhard proclaims herself quite aptly as “no-nonsense.” That has been, [...]
‘Simon’ – and Out Director Greg Berlanti – Says It’s Time for Queer Cinema’s Next Big Thing
Historically speaking, the most culturally influential LGBTQ-focused films have been independent, slow-rollout, arthouse-screened touchstones, from Best Picture Oscar contender "Brokeback Mountain" in 2005 to Best Picture Oscar winner "Moonlight," released in 2016. Within and since [...]
The Frivolist: 7 Acts of Self-Care You Should Already Be Doing
Life comes at us fast, and it’s getting easier and easier to get lost not only in our circumstances but also in the world around us. Work, friends, family, politics, relationships, past relationships – they [...]
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By Romeo San Vicente LOS ANGELES - MAY 23: Anne Hathaway arrives to the "Alice Through The Looking Glass" American Premiere on May 23, 2016 in Hollywood, CA. Anne Hathaway 'Wanted' by Dee [...]
Me, The Other, a documentary featuring Washtenaw County college students, returns to Ann Arbor March 7th
Me, The Other, a locally produced documentary that tells the story of 12 students attending college in Washtenaw County, is returning to the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor on March 7. The diverse group featured in the film ranges from an African-American acting student from Flint who tells a personal heartbreaking story of the current water crisis in her community; a student from Mexico on the DACA program living in fear of deportation; a student from the storm-devastated island of Puerto Rico; a #metoo story of an orphaned immigrant from Cameroon; and a 65-year-old transgendered student who was homeless and alcohol and drug dependent but chose education over suicide.
Robyn Is Coming. Plus, 6 Other Albums That Will Make This Year Suck Less.
That Britney album better come quick – preferably before the world combusts from nuclear warfare. On the horizon for the rest of what’s shaping up to be a very gay 2018 outside of Brandi Carlile’s [...]
Q&A: Jake Shears Is ‘Happy to Call the Shots,’ Talks Scissor Sisters Hiatus, Aging and the Day David Bowie Died
“Oh, did I print that?” Jake Shears is in a state of surprised perplexity, wondering if a version of his new (and very moving) memoir, "Boys Keep Swinging," landed in the hands of journalists, such [...]
Q&A With ’27’ Soprano Monica Dewey
A night out in Paris is never a mistake. And in the early 1900s, a trip down its cobble-stoned streets to the salon at 27 rue de Fleurus was an excellent decision. On an ideal [...]
Q&A: Calum Scott Talks Being ‘Terrified’ to Come Out Publicly, Musically Inspiring Queer People & Thoughts on Releasing a Gay Love Song with Sam Smith
"Britain’s Got Talent" finalist Calum Scott, who incited massive swooning on music mogul Simon Cowell’s reality show in 2015, once thought he’d be a counselor. He wanted to ease people’s troubled minds. Give them hope. [...]
Making It: A Native Detroiter Makes His Mark in New York
Jeremy Martin was nearly 5 years old when he received an art kit of paints, drawing pencils and brushes from a family friend. With his newfound creative tools, Martin began experimenting with coloration, he remembers, [...]
Justin Tranter’s Delusion Come True: Hitmaker on Career Reinvention & How His Queerness Nurtures Pop Princesses
Who needs awards when you have Oprah? True, walking away with a shiny, golden statue has its own perks, but for songwriter-to-the-stars Justin Tranter, just being nominated for a Grammy and a Golden Globe this [...]
Mary Lambert Thinks You’re a Babe
Unafraid to speak her mind, Mary Lambert is proud to say that in her eyes, everyone qualifies as a babe. Conveniently, “Everyone is a Babe” is the name of her tour, where she’ll be showcasing [...]
Pewamo to NYC: Michigan Native Releases Photo Book of NYC Drag Queens
Fashion and fine arts photographer Gregory Kramer might be at ease in New York City's fashion scene now, but — as with many artists — he had humble beginnings. Originally from the village of Pewamo, [...]
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By Romeo San Vicente There’s this plane, see, and RuPaul is the pilot, right… If you’re a responsible, attentive cinephile then you were among the select few who actually bought a ticket to see "Snakes [...]
Guys Turnabout During the ‘Big Switch’ at the Woodward
Curtis Collins (aka Curtistine LaBaśha) is "still coming down from the high" off of his turnabout performance during the third annual "Big Switch" on Monday night at the Woodward Bar & Grill in Detroit. "People [...]
Singing For Our Lives: Brandi Carlile Instills Power in the Powerless With Career-Best LP
Brandi Carlile knew the kid from somewhere. She’d seen him before – not this particular one, but others like him. Nervously pulling at his T-shirt, worn under a chic blazer that stuck out amid a [...]
Kicking Off 2018 With Some Heat: Sinister Wisdom Carries on Tradition
Sinister Wisdom revealed the cover for its first issue of 2018 and in a word it's "hot." Edited by JP Howard and Amber Atiya with the sultry cover photo taken by Akinfe Fatou, the topic [...]
Q&A: ‘Schitt’s Creek’ Creator Dan Levy Talks Show’s Beloved Gay Relationship, Guiding Non-Queers and Living More Like His Free-Spirited Pansexual Character
Next time you see Dan Levy, thank him. Thank him for "Schitt’s Creek," his super-bingeable comedic riff on a once-affluent family forced to live like fish out of Perrier in the podunk Canadian town the [...]
Chaz Bono on How His Transness ‘Was the Issue That Made Me Stop Acting’ & Possibly Working With Mom Cher
As radical right-winger Gary Longstreet on last year’s "American Horror Story: Cult," a far cry from his own liberal leanings, Chaz Bono had his breakout role at the age of 48. Why did it take [...]
Screen Queen: Yes, That’s Paul Reubens (aka Pee-wee Herman) in HBO’s ‘Mosaic’
Tap that Grindr cuddle buddy of yours – winter is officially here, and brr, it’s time for some Netflix and chill. Or HBO and chill. Or Blu-ray and chill. Whatever your media of choice, here’s [...]
Deep Inside Hollywood: The Best of 2017
By Romeo San Vicente The past 12 months have seen us finding refuge in our own queer selves. The sheer volume of LGBT-themed cultural content allowed a lot of us to see taking the occasional [...]
Gloria Estefan Talks Very Gay Year: LGBTQ Icon Has a Queer Movie, Award and Now Daughter
Why of course global queer icon Gloria Estefan – subject of Broadway musical "On Your Feet," and muse to drag queens worldwide – has a daughter who is not straight. To close out 2017, Gloria’s [...]