Chris Azzopardi
Natasha Rothwell on Her Breakout Teacher Role in 'Love, Simon' & the LGBTQ Love for 'Insecure'
Oh, sure, actress Natasha Rothwell's scene-stealing drama teacher in out director Greg Berlanti's groundbreaking gay teen rom-com "Love, Simon" is bitter – and therefore, funny as all hell – about overseeing amateur teens in a student [...]
Taylor Swift in Detroit: A Pop Queen Earns Her Crown
If Old Taylor Swift was dead, the massive animatronic cobra that slithered onto Detroit's Ford Field on Tuesday night was the 28-year-old music luminary's incarnate, as New Taylor deliciously acted the insidious part written for her by tabloids [...]
Q&A: Anna Kendrick on Fluid Sexuality & Advocating for 'Pitch Perfect' Lesbian Love
The pitch is perfectly crazy in Anna Kendrick's walk on the dark side of filmmaker Paul Feig's warped sense of humor, "A Simple Favor." It's martini-sipper mom versus martini-swigger mom. Target mom versus Met Gala mom. Aspirational versus [...]
Troye Sivan's Queerness In Full Bloom: Out Pop Star Talks Uninhibited Second Album & Embracing His Femininity
Nobody is stopping Troye Sivan except for maybe Troye Sivan. No queer-averse label bosses, no identity-stifling pressure to be anything but who he is: the LGBTQ community's precious paradigm of unapologetic, unicornian queerness. But even with the [...]
The Freeing of Matt Dallas: 'Kyle XY' Alum Reflects on Living in the Hollywood Closet & Talks Leaving L.A. to Focus on Fatherhood
Matt Dallas can laugh now, but his former life as a gay man living as a straight man wasn't a joke. Dallas was told to stay in the closet after moving to L.A. to pursue acting at 18, particularly while portraying the boyishly cute titular character [...]
Q&A: Justin Theroux on His New 'Queer Eye' Friends, Making Crop Tops & Why He Wouldn't Date Any of the Guys He's Played
No straight man has ever offered to make me a crop top, but Justin Theroux is no ordinary straight man. If you've seen him in all his shirtless, ripped, oiled glory in 2003's "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle" or bore witness to all that was bouncing [...]
Olympian Gus Kenworthy Talks Hollywood Aspirations, a Promising Future for LGBTQ Athletes and Being a 'Bad Gay'
Nobody reminds silver Olympic medalist Gus Kenworthy that he was in "Sharknado 5," and it's hard to tell how that makes him feel after I casually drop that nugget of info as you do if you've studied his IMDB page. "Global Swarming," I say, naming [...]
Betty Who Reborn: The Now-Indie Aussie Sets Out to Expand Her Bop-Queen Horizons
Jessica Newham, better known as Betty Who, is in a constant state of gay. A Pride festival one day, a stroll through Berlin with four gay friends another. Naturally, their afternoon walk is unfolding when as she rings me to talk about – what else? – [...]
Q&A: Sean Hayes Talks 'Will & Grace,' Jack's Future (...with The Rock?) & Being 'Part of the Chorus of the Movement'
Where would our queer world be without "Will & Grace"? That's where my head was just before Sean Hayes phoned, recalling my lonely teen years, when gay white men on TV alone – here's to evolved representation! – was unprecedented and [...]
Trans Singer Shea Diamond Moved Prisoners With Her Music While In Jail. Now, the World.
Even in prison, Shea Diamond was a star. The concrete floor her stage, the men her audience. And the acoustics? "The best," Diamond says. The 40-year-old soul songstress stretched her body over the hard ground, beating it while singing a song she [...]
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 date. The fleshy inside, the [...]
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 Pride. All the rainbows and free love and free condoms and [...]