Chris Azzopardi
In Full Bloom: This Trans Actress and Sports Illustrated Model Is Changing the Game for Trans Women of Color
Leyna Bloom made a splash this year for being the first Black and Asian openly trans woman to be featured in the annual Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition, out in July. But even before reaching that historical milestone, the 27-year-old Chicago [...]
Ryan O'Connell Wants You — Yes, You! — to Talk More About Queer Disabled People
Ôªø This interview contains some spoilers for Season 2 of Netflix's "Special." A gay man with cerebral palsy. You won't find that kind of important representation just any time you flick on the TV, which is why Ryan O'Connell's Netflix show [...]
WATCH: Too Soon? Not If You're Alaska Thunderfuck.The Queen Talks Comedy Special and, Oh Yes, an All Winners 'All Stars'
Are Alaska Thunderfuck's filthy jokes about Jeffrey Epstein, "genderfluids," labia and poop too much for our world on fire? Alaska, even though she has a song called "Anus," thought maybe they were. She wasn't sure if an assault joke in 2021 would [...]
Catching Up with Nico Tortorella: How the Pandemic Had the 'Younger' Star Questioning Queer Identity
For six seasons, queer nonbinary actor, activist and author Nico Tortorella has starred as Josh, the delightfully brooding (straight) tattoo artist, on super-queer TV Land dramedy "Younger." Created, executive produced and written by openly gay [...]
WATCH: Why 'Genera+ion' Star Justice Smith Is Happy to Be an Example of Black Queer Joy
Last summer, Justice Smith wasn't coming out but, instead, making a statement in solidarity with the Black trans and queer community. On Instagram, the 25-year-old actor posted a video while attending a protest against white supremacy and police [...]
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 [...]