Chris Azzopardi
Q&A: Alexander Skarsgard on Gay Sex Scenes & How Playing Tarzan Was 'Nothing Compared to That Night in Drag'
Alexander Skarsgard sure knows how to offset the uproar over his missing loincloth in "The Legend of Tarzan." "I'm actually wearing it right now," teases Skarsgard, joking about the brouhaha regarding this Tarzan's more civilized article of [...]
Q&A: Ladyhawke on Coming Out, Marriage-Inspired New Album & Why Orlando Feels 'Very Close to Home'
Photo: Cybele Malinowski Here comes the bride… and the other bride. It was as simple as that for Pip Brown, whose stage moniker is Ladyhawke. The New Zealand-born indie popster flew under the gaydar until 2015, when she announced her marriage to [...]
The Healing Power of Beyonce's 'Lemonade'
Everyone has their own theory about Beyonce's "Lemonade." Is it about her marriage to Jay Z? Her father's infidelity? America's pervasive racism and its wrenching consequence: the slaughtering of innocent blacks? Is it about Orlando now? It could [...]
Screen Queen
Death Becomes Her Character development, be damned. The archetypes in the Robert Zemeckis-directed commentary on showbiz superficiality and the general vanity of being human are mere sketches, but if "Death Becomes Her" is purely an excuse for a [...]
Mariah Carey Q&A: Visions of (Unconditional) Love, Bravery and Bad Hair Through the Lens of a Longtime 'Lamb'
Photo: Denise Truscello I told my mom I interviewed Mariah Carey and she cried. "I know how much this means to you," she said, verklempt. She knows Mariah saved my life. I was 10 and confused and gay when I first heard her voice. It was one of those [...]
Fly like a bird
There's a robin in the road. Its wings are nicked, but it hasn't lost its will to live. "I picked him up and put him where there was a puddle of water right next to a building," says singer/songwriter Kristine W as she stops on the way to her Las [...]
Running scared
BrainKate and Jamie ducked behind a parked car. After dodging beer bottles to the head and hearing "faggot" echo beneath the Long Island, N.Y., sky, the two friends weren't sure they would make it out alive. "I felt pretty scared," says BrianKate, [...]
Film explores treatment of trans prisoners
Shot over three years, "Cruel and Unusual" explores the decision of prisons to place inmates based on their genitalia, not their gender identity. Dan Hunt, along with two other filmmakers, set out to tell these transgender women's stories of being [...]
Manhunt tops Gay.com
Manhunt.net edged out Gay.com as the top LGBT Web site in the country by more than 2 percent in market share last week. "The tortoise has finally passed the hare," said Jonathon Crutchley, a founding partner of the Boston-based Manhunt.net, in a [...]
Lena Dunham Talks Subverting Hollywood Gender Norms, Why She Calls Jack Antonoff Her 'Partner' and the Influence of Her Sister's Queerness
Photo: Craig Blankenhorn/HBO "Suited" is the perfect fit for Lena Dunham. Producer of the thought-provoking documentary about the powerful relationship between fashion and identity, Dunham knows firsthand that bending the gender rules by wearing a [...]
The Butch Beneath Our Wings: Lea DeLaria Talks Historical Almost-Canceled Arsenio Stint, Making Tough Chicks Cry & Why 'LGBT' Needs To Go
First the screwdriver, then the peanut butter. But Lea DeLaria's love for "Orange Is the New Black" goes beyond the craftiness of her shenanigans with both a hand tool and a classic sandwich spread as a regular on TV's Emmy-winning prison drama. [...]