Chris Azzopardi
She Rushed to Come Out as Bisexual. Now, With Her Debut LP, Dodie Is Reexamining What Sexuality Means to Her.
To know dodie is to really know her. Since 2011, the British singer-songwriter's diary-wide-open authenticity has drawn millions of fans to her YouTube channel doddleoddle and its sister channel, doddlevloggle. Those faithful fans — she once [...]
Q&A: From 'Barb and Star' to 'Yes Day,' Fortune Feimster Is Giving the Gays Something to Talk About
Fortune Feimster's mouth has been going and going and going. "I talk a lot right now," says the Southern comedian who hails from North Carolina, coughing and clearing her throat as we – that's right – talk on Zoom. In addition to a daily radio [...]
Q&A: Dominique Jackson on the Final Season of 'Pose' and What Gave Her the Strength to Push Through the Pandemic
Model and actress Dominique Jackson can't say a thing about the third and final season of one of the most groundbreaking LGBTQ+ series ever made. It's mid February when we connect, just weeks before it was announced that seven new episodes of [...]
Billy Eichner Will Be the First Out Gay Man to Write, Star in Studio Rom-Com, Actor Tweets 'Move Over, Julia Roberts'
Were you hoping that one day Billy Eichner would get the big-screen debut he deserves? That it would be super gay? And that a major studio would distribute it? Hope no more! Eichner is starring in "Bros," the rarest kind of big-budget, [...]
Angelica Ross Has a Simple Reason for Why We Celebrate Trans Women During Women's History Month
For Angelica Ross, her short time on "Pose" wasn't an end — it was a beginning. After famously portraying Candy Ferocity on the FX series, which depicts New York City ball culture, Ross starred in another Ryan Murphy production, "American [...]
Q&A: Katherine Waterston Says All These Lesbian Period Dramas Indicate a 'Problem, Not a Pattern'
A farmer's wife, the grieving Abigail, and her neighbor, the free-spirited Tallie, can't quit each other in the queer 19-century romance "The World to Come." The women, both unhappily married to men, form an intimate bond that explores how isolation [...]
Q&A: Leslie Jordan Has Been Acting for Decades. But Now 'Fans Know Me as Me'
"Where should I be looking? There? Or there?" His face smothering the camera as he wonders where his eyes should be, Leslie Jordan is settling into our video interview like it could be a comic routine about somebody trying to use Zoom for the [...]
Stanley Tucci on Playing Gay Since 1996. And How Some People Actually Think He's Gay.
Stanley Tucci has survived the icy death stare of Meryl Streep's Miranda Priestly and told Cher to her face that she looks like a drag queen. Aside from starring as the queer second-in-command next to those gay icons in "The Devil Wear Prada" and [...]
Russell Tovey Talks 'The Sister,' Being Called 'Daddy' and LGBTQ Authenticity on TV
Russell Tovey steamed up screens as Jonathan Groff's hunky boss on the HBO series "Looking," about an intimate group of gay and queer friends living in contemporary San Francisco. Impassioned thoughts on the Richie-Kevin-Patrick love triangle [...]
Rufus Wainwright Reflects on His 'Funny Little Boy' Past. And Looks Ahead to a Possible Grammy Win.
It all started with Rufus Wainwright in his bathrobe. The crooner, at the forefront of virtual pandemic performances in March 2020, performed a song a day at his home piano in the Hollywood Hills during his "Quarantunes Robe Recital" series for [...]
On TV, the Hero Is a Black Transman From Ann Arbor
Without any positive trans role models, Brian Michael Smith grew up in 1980s Michigan thinking a Black transman couldn't be an actor. He wasn't seeing himself on TV, or anywhere. But now and then, things change for the better. Today, people are [...]
A Quarantine Threesome: 'Social Distance' Stars Talk COVID-Era Series, Friendship and Pandemic Dating
File this under 2020's "Content We Lived" category: "Social Distance," Netflix's anthology series completely conceived, cast and shot in quarantine. Tucked into the show's eight episodes is "Zero Feet Away," which follows a gay couple suffering from [...]