Chris Azzopardi
Reba McEntire Talks 30 Years of Drag Queens Doing 'Fancy,' Lil Nas X and Those CBD Rumors
It was 30 years ago when Reba McEntire – music legend, gay icon, the epitome of country glamour – made Bobby Gentry's "Fancy" her own. A feminist statement about a woman who turns to sex work to overcome childhood poverty, the story-song became [...]
Sharon Stone Talks Queerness in New Series, LGBTQ Activism & What Her Dad Meant to Her Gay Friends
That scene. You know the one: the one in "Basic Instinct" where Sharon Stone's legs are open. It's been talked about and talked about, and talked about some more. It's been talked about so much in the years since it shook the world in 1992 that it [...]
Out Musician Bright Light Bright Light Centers LGBTQ Culture With Disco-Laden Third LP
The name Rod Thomas might not be instantly recognizable, but it's likely you've come across the one he uses on stage. As Bright Light Bright Light, Thomas has been a staple of the international LGBTQ music scene for the last 10 years, performing for [...]
Billy Porter Talks Hollywood ('I Crashed the Party'), His Black Gay Experience & Upcoming Memoir
"Now that I have a massive platform, and now that the people want to listen to the Black sissy, I'm gonna talk," Billy Porter says, fired up, leaning into the camera. On Zoom, Porter commands a computer screen like he does a red carpet. In this [...]
Murder, She Kind of Wrote: 'SNL' Writer Paula Pell Puts a Goofy Queer Spin on Jessica Fletcher in 'Mapleworth Murders'
Writer-actress Paula Pell knows it's ridiculous: a dowdy, out-of-touch suburban broad with an accent that is somehow a little British – or Irish, or something – who solves murders in her quaint town. But the Emmy winner, who wrote for "Saturday [...]
Jessie Ware Declares That Yes, Gays, She's at Your Mercy
Jessie Ware sees all the fan-sent rainbow emojis on her Twitter feed, and "definitely a lot of Spanish writing and I don't know what they're saying to me but I love it," gushes the British balladeer turned disco queen. For the first time since [...]
The Chicks' Natalie Maines Talks Queer Creators Behind Trio's Comeback LP, LGBTQ Activism & Advice For Lady A
Sitting somewhere with an abstract-art background obscuring her precise location, (Dixie) Chicks frontwoman Natalie Maines erupts into an explosive maybe-I-shouldn't cackle during our Zoom call as she talks about how she's about to get in trouble [...]
Crazy Sexy Time: 'Eurovision' Actor Dan Stevens On How He Out-Gayed Even His Gayest Role
As closeted Russian pop prince Alexander Lemtov, actor Dan Stevens shows up in the Netflix comedy "Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga" bejeweled in rhinestones, with a moppy head of Wham!-era George Michael hair. He gives double-cheek [...]
Criterion Films Celebrate Diversity in All Its Forms
'Paris Is Burning' In "Paris Is Burning," a strut is a defiant act, an exertion of suppressed power. In the mid-to-late 1980s, when the landmark documentary was filmed, these moves couldn't be showcased just anywhere. Today the same is true, as the [...]
Keiynan Lonsdale Learned to Celebrate His Black Queerness. Then Came the Defiant Music.
Once Keiynan Lonsdale made no apologies for who he is, the music followed suit. The star of the CW's "The Flash" and 2018's gay teen comedy "Love, Simon" celebrates his Black queer identity on his 14-track anthemic solo debut "Rainbow Boy." [...]
Jason Mraz Talks Protesting, Pride and His Journey to Being Openly Bisexual
The coronavirus pandemic has forced Pride events around the world to go virtual this year. For Jason Mraz, that means he can, for the first time, take part in the annual summer festivities. After all, thanks to the virus, the "I'm Yours" [...]
Haaz SleimanTalks Visibility, His Gay Marvel Kiss, and Why He Wants to Play James Bond
Actor Haaz Sleiman is on a mission to take part in stories that broaden the pool of queer perspectives on the screen. And if you already know his work, you know he's on a roll. For "The Son," an episode of Apple TV+'s acclaimed anthology [...]