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Allison Williams Talks Queerness in 'The Perfection,' That Gay Scene in 'Get Out' & Rimming in 'Girls'
For Netflix's horrifically relevant "The Perfection," Allison Williams has been encountering the same challenge she did after playing the Crazy White Girl in writer-director Jordan Peele's "Get Out": talking about it. Little should be revealed [...]
She Bop, We Bop: Carly Rae Jepsen Talks 'Gift' of LGBTQ Fans, Gay Magic & Mullet Power
It's certainly not Carly Rae Jepsen's fault that the English language is, at least when she needs it most, a total let-down. It offers her scant synonyms for describing what, exactly, she's checking off on her color-coded poster boards when making [...]
Q&A: Anjelica Huston on Speaking Her Truth, Dodging a Gay Pride Penis & Why Morticia Was 'Almost Drag'
Give Anjelica Huston a character so fierce it will single-handedly galvanize the gay community and she'll devour the role. Unapologetically powerful, her Grand High Witch in "The Witches" wielded kid-hexing Wiccan powers, her ghastly face both a [...]
Diane Keaton Talks Gay Following She Never Knew She Had, Lesbian Roles ('I'm Available') & 'First Wives Club' Sequel
Diane Keaton doesn't have all the answers to all the questions and she's sorry about that. She's sorry a lot. So sorry I kindly urge her not to be, like she's not Diane Keaton but a familiar friend, her fizzy, giddy, no-pretense charm making it easy [...]
Review: Pink Soars, Affirms 'Forgotten and Invisible' During Powerful Show
Have you balanced atop and dangled from an aerialist in midair, nothing holding you to him but his strength and yours? Or boomeranged Spidey-style from end to end of a sports arena, like Detroit's Little Caesars Arena, where Pink impressed with two [...]
Amy Poehler & Rachel Dratch Talk Gay Wine Buddies, LGBTQ Fans and Amy's 'Soft Butch' Style
Amy Poehler and Rachel Dratch are as thrilled as I am over Netflix's meta itinerary for journalists like myself who have landed in Napa Valley, California to cover their new heavy-on-the-imbibing dramedy, "Wine Country." Appropriately, the itinerary [...]
Love, Fear, Freedom: Marina Talks Finding Herself, Painting For Charity & LGBTQ Fandom
Even though Marina Diamandis cut herself loose from pop music after 2015's "FROOT" to find the version of herself she lost to an industry touting artifice, the truth is she'd been feeling that way for a while. During the promotional cycle for her [...]
Q&A: Molly Shannon on Playing a Lesbian Emily Dickinson & Catching Gays Do Her 'SNL' Bits
Consider this: Emily Dickinson was not all grandma curtains and sad, sad, sad. But she was fun! She was funny! And she was – says at least one very convinced filmmaker – a lesbian with a sizzling sex life. Of course, many have noted the likelihood [...]
Melissa Etheridge Talks New Cannabis-Fueled LP, Inner Space & Paving the Way For 'P*ssy Is God'
Ain't it heavy? Ain't the night heavy? The opioid crisis, national anxiety, school shootings. Our political zoo. The general feeling that the world is always, probably ending. Because she's a human being even though she's Melissa Etheridge, this all [...]
Braver Than Before: Sara Bareilles on Being Fearlessly Political, Her 'Ride or Die' Lesbians & Drag Queens
Sara Bareilles wanted to see herself be brave. Of course she summoned you to do the same atop a bop that wouldn't take no for an answer, but she's been a work in progress herself. She followed her own be-bold guidance for her fifth solo album, [...]
Ben Platt Talks Debut Album, Gay Actor Stigma & Why Being LGBTQ Should Be 'an Assumed Part of Reality'
It comes up casually, as Ben Platt prefers. Tucked into "Older," a theatrical juggernaut that doesn't even try to hide the fact that the actor-singer introduced Evan Hansen to the world (because why would it?), the line is a personal aside expressed [...]
This Queer World, According to Anna Paquin: Actress Talks 'Tricky' Representation & Understated LGBTQ Roles
Enough with the labels: Anna Paquin just wants LGBTQ people to be people. As star and executive producer of Pop TV's "Flack," Paquin's celeb-PR spin doctor, Robyn, fascinates because her hyper-controlling nature at work is in sharp contrast to her [...]