Chris Azzopardi
Q&A: Jennifer Nettles Talks Celebrating the Queer Community with New Sugarland Album & Why 'Tolerance' Isn't Enough
Just before releasing a hotly anticipated new album with Sugarland bandmate Kristian Bush, duo frontwoman Jennifer Nettles summed up her history of progressive politics and queer advocacy and love for chicken with one defiant tweet: "Steals recipe [...]
A Greater, Bigger, More Authentic World: Duo's Chad King on Fashion Shows, Forthcoming Album (Their 'Arrival Moment') and Being Gay in Music Today
While you were crying, out musician Chad King and his friend Ian Axel were figuring out their next move. Could A Great Big World, as they're collectively known, strike twice with another colossal Christina Aguilera-assisted tearjerker? Peaking at [...]
Screen Queen: Oscars at Home
Unforgettable Moments from Academy Award-Winning Gay Faves, Yours Forever to Stream Call Me By Your Name Oliver (Armie Hammer) is facedown on the bed, fully clothed. He's just arrived at his professor's (Michael Stuhlbarg) home in picturesque [...]
Dan Reynolds Is On a Mission: Imagine Dragons Frontman Talks Being a Mormon LGBTQ Activist, Queer-Minded Music & Expanding LoveLoud
During the inaugural LoveLoud Festival in August 2017 on the campus of Utah Valley University in Orem, roughly 40 miles outside Salt Lake City, 17,000 people fell into the embrace of Dan Reynolds. Amid performances of his band's towering anthems, [...]
Q&A: Adam Rippon on Finding His Gay Power, What Inspires His Costume Design ('Sex Stuff') & His Post-Olympics Clapback For Guys Who Once Ghosted Him
"Yes, this is an interview," a schoolgirl-giggly Adam Rippon deadpans to fellow figure skater Charlie White who, naturally, is curious about the current topic of conversation: sex and harnesses, and how both come together to inspire his uniquely [...]
Rachel Weisz's Quest for Queer Stories –and Why She Thinks It's 'Essential' LGBTQ Films Reach Out to Gay Press
Rachel Weisz has strong feelings on makers of queer films discussing their work with queer media. To not do so, she says, would be "ridiculous and wrong and unthinkable." The topic is broached in light of her new Sapphic film, "Disobedience," [...]
I Found Love at a Lorde Concert. Just Not the Kind I Was Expecting.
The soundtrack of my love life as a full-grown gay man was written by a 21-year-old woman. I'm 35, so this is slightly concerning to my queer confidante. He doesn't think I need to try to make myself any more available to the Snapchat demo who adorn [...]
Q&A: Jessie Ware on Gaining Confidence from the Queer Community, Wig Snatching & Upcoming Dance Album
Jessie Ware only recently learned what "wig-snatching" means, and fresh off the European leg of her current tour, I've taught her "guncle." The 33-year-old British songstress takes full advantage of this latest lesson in queer-speak, breaking from [...]
Our Lady Liberty: Hayley Kiyoko Talks Life, Lesbians and the Pursuit of Unabashed Queer Pop
Even lesbian Jesuses get swept up by the grandeur of the Statue of Liberty. "I've never seen it before! It's huge! Oh my god, it's huge!" enthuses a giddy-as-ever Hayley Kiyoko, proclaimed "the lesbian Jesus" by her adoring disciples. The [...]
OK, Pumpkin?': Toni Braxton Isn't Kidding About These Untold Stories – and the Janet and Mariah Duets That Could've Been
When you have seven Grammys and an iconic voice that can drop to ocean depths, it's your God-given right to also have a no-wings-in-my-dressing-room policy. This is Toni Braxton in 2018, still decrying the existence of pungent food in her midst [...]
Trey Pearson Finds Community Through Queer-Affirming Music
Trey Pearson is living the out gay life he never thought he could. After 20 years as the frontman of the Christian rock band Everyday Sunday, Pearson — a father of two who was married for seven of those years to his wife, Lauren — came out in May [...]
Jennifer Garner Talks Emotional Reaction to 'Love, Simon,' Her Drag Queen Hairstylist and the Lesbian Role She Almost Had
Mothers of gay sons, Jennifer Garner is here to be your guide. As Emily Spier, whose 17-year-old, Simon (Nick Robinson), has recently come out to her and her husband (Josh Duhamel), the actress is a ray of light and love in every frame she shares [...]