Chris Azzopardi
How Todrick Hall Found His Yellow Brick Road: Learning to Love Himself, Shero Emulation & Inspiring 'Little Todricks'
Photo: AwesomenessTV Todrick Hall grew up in Plainview, Texas, with a dream to be "one of these black women who could sing all these crazy notes." It is, after all, in his blood – his cousin is none other than "Dreamgirls" song slayer Jennifer [...]
Hear Me Out: Katy Perry, Lorde
Katy Perry, 'Witness' Once upon a time, former Christian singer Katy Perry was just a simple California gurl doing simple California gurl things, like spraying Reddi Wip from her boobs because it's fun to blast things from your boobs. Musically, [...]
TLC's T-Boz and Chilli Talk 'Crunk' Queer Fans, Being Lesbian-Chased, Gay Sex Lessons and the LGBT Legacy of 'Waterfalls'
TLC never had to go chasing their gay fans – we came to them. And not just because "Waterfalls," one of pop history's most prominent HIV/AIDS-awareness anthems, made a generation of LGBT people more sexually responsible, or because "Unpretty" [...]
Crazy for Zoe Kazan: 'The Big Sick' Actress on Her New LGBT-Resonant Rom-Com, Shining a Spotlight on Gay Actors & That Paul Dano-Daniel Radcliffe Kiss
Why aren't more gay men professing their love to Zoe Kazan? I wonder this after doing just that. I dote on the 33-year-old film and theater actress – star of "Ruby Sparks," "Revolutionary Road" and HBO's "Olive Kitteridge" – like she's my best [...]
Sharon Van Etten's Song for Orlando: Singer Talks Pulse Tribute, How Michael Stipe Convinced Her to Do a Club Mix
Photo: Laura Crosta In June of last year, Sharon Van Etten mourned alongside the rest of the community after 49 people were shot and killed at one of Orlando's premier LGBT nightclubs, Pulse. She did so at the piano, where the Brooklyn-based [...]
Q&A: Sam Claflin on Looking For the Right Gay Role, Gay 'Hunger Games' Fan Fiction & 'Sickening' Intolerance
Photo: Fox Searchlight After a breakout part in 'The Hunger Games" saga, as dreamy tribute Finnick Odair, and now a starring role opposite Rachel Weisz in "My Cousin Rachel," the odds certainly have been in Sam Claflin's favor. Considering his [...]
The Future Is Nico: 'Younger' Actor on Embracing Polyamory, His 'Sexploration of Love' & Being a 'Proud' Bisexual
Photo: Matt Martin When it comes to Hollywood interviews, they're "just so fucking straightforward and boring and everybody asks the same questions and it just gets redundant," explains Nico Tortorella. But our interview is different, he says. "This [...]
Honestly Loved: Olivia Newton-John Talks Dream to Cure Cancer, Gay Adoration & How She's 'Here and Still Going'
"My dream is to see an end to cancer in my lifetime," Olivia Newton-John told me at the end of April, just weeks before announcing that she'd been diagnosed with a recurrence of breast cancer that has spread to the sacrum bone in her back. The [...]
John Waters Looks Back at 'Serial Mom': Inside Fan-Fave Scenes & Boy George's Surprising Ode to the Film
Photo: Greg Gorman Has there ever been a better prank call than the one in "Serial Mom"? The wicked bit features Kathleen Turner as Beverly Sutphin harassing her parking-spot-stealing neighbor, Dottie Hinkle (Mink Stole): "Is this the Cocksucker [...]
Hear Me Out: Mary J. Blige, Betty Who
Mary J. Blige, 'Strength of a Woman' Fear not, weary gays, the rock that is Mary J. Blige is here to save the day with new muses – see: drama – for her latest serving of soul-nurturing fortitude. On "Strength of a Woman," the Hip-Hop Queen and [...]
Q&A: Priyanka Chopra Pledges Support for LGBT Community Despite 'Ugly' Resistance, Talks Flirty Lesbians & Zac Efron's 'Real' Abs
Photo: Paramount Priyanka Chopra has your back. Though India's government still criminalizes homosexuality, Chopra – global icon, star of ABC's gay-inclusive "Quantico" and one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people of 2016 (she has nearly [...]
Michigan's Viral Spelling-Bee Sensation Joe Dombrowski Talks Being on 'Ellen' & the Lesson He's Teaching His Students By Being Out
Joe Dombrowski never expected to end up on "Ellen" after his fourth-grade students at Oakland Elementary in Royal Oak hilariously attempted to spell made-up words – and a queen's name from "RuPaul's Drag Race" – as an April Fools' joke. But then [...]