Chris Azzopardi
In Bed with Alan Cumming: 'Battle of the Sexes' Star Talks Billie Jean King in the Trump Era, Gay Spies and Being Emma Stone's 'Big Brother'
Photo: Fox Searchlight Alan Cumming is chill as can be in a hotel bed in Los Angeles, where he's tugging on his crotch, illustrating to me the surprisingly flirty exchange he just had with tennis great and LGBT pioneer Billie Jean King. "She just [...]
Demi Lovato Talks Sexuality ('I Love Who I Love'), Stage Erections, Artists Who Pander to the LGBT Community and Mariah's 'Incredible Voice'
Whether it's knowing the already-established history of her sexuality or recalling that time a man had a very visible erection on stage as she performed, Demi Lovato appreciates Demi-schooled journalists. "Thanks for doing your research," the [...]
Songs for Sanity in this Political Climate
The resistance is in full swing, with late-night talk show hosts railing against Donald Trump's total incompetence as president and oppressed communities uniting to rally for equality. But they're not the only ones giving freedom, fairness and [...]
All-American Rejects' Tyson Ritter on 'Freeing' Experience as a Crossdresser, Femininity & Why the Music Biz Is Corrupt ('Everybody's Selling Celeb')
Tyson Ritter strips down to nothing for the All-American Rejects' new queer project. Fuzzy top, blonde wig, fake eyelashes, low-cut skirt, stilettos – the frontman de-drags as he transforms from a prostitute, Betsy, to a seemingly married, [...]
The World Needs Kesha's New Album
Kesha, 'Rainbow' Don't be surprised if Kesha needed "Rainbow," her first album since 2012's "Warrior," as much as the queer kids questioning their place in this mad, queer-resistant world do. Her comeback album's soaring first single, "Praying," [...]
Q&A: Tori Amos on Gay Mentors, Living the Persephone Myth & How to Respond to Trump As a 'Non-Reactive, Postmenopausal' Woman
Photo: Paulina Otylie Surys Tori Amos' mind is one of the greatest wonders of the music world. For over three decades, via an oeuvre as unpredictable as the muses that guide her, that very mind has been a trove of lyrical salvation and a divine [...]
Kesha's Empowering 'Rainbow' Is the Queer Album the World Needs Right Now
Kesha, 'Rainbow' Don't be surprised if Kesha needed "Rainbow," her first album since 2012's "Warrior," as much as the queer kids questioning their place in this mad, queer-resistant world do. Her comeback album's soaring first single, "Praying," [...]
Q&A: Niecy Nash on Her Queer-Loved Roles, (Possibly) Going Lesbian on 'Claws' & How She Has 'Gay Friends Who Are One Bacardi Away From Being a Black Woman'
Photo: TNT Niecy Nash doesn't think she knows any gay prostitutes, but they – and every other kind of gay – most certainly know her. From her rib-tickling portrayal of Deputy Raineesha Williams in "Reno 911!" to "Getting On" and the Ryan [...]
Family matters
When Saint Clair Shores native Chris Pudlo scored his series-debut on Logo's "Sordid Lives," it didn't immediately sink in that he'd work with a menagerie of acting icons. Or get an ass spanking by one. Back in January, when most of the [...]
Girl' Talk
Rue McClanahan is nursing her illness – an "indefinable something," she determines – with a bowl of vegetable soup, which sounds pretty dull compared to the dish she serves to us (see accompanying story) and the quick rewind to The Gayest Show About [...]
Q&A: Patti LaBelle on Why She's Still Not a Diva, the Shady GIFs of Her You Share ('I'm Honored'), Having No Beefs (Just 'Dislikes') & Trump's Trans Ban ('Ain't That a Witch')
Photo: W&W Is there a singer more real than Patti LaBelle? The 73-year-old legend of song (and shade) is a firehose of strong-minded opinions, and in an age that has some tight-lipped "divettes," as LaBelle calls them, refraining from saying [...]