Chris Azzopardi
Hear Me Out: Cyndi Lauper, Rihanna
Cyndi Lauper, 'Detour' Girls just want to have… a country album? If you're Cyndi Lauper and your repertoire is as delightfully ADHD as hers – the American Songbook, pop ear-candy, the blues, a damn musical (she won a Tony for "Kinky Boots") – the [...]
Q&A: Rufus Wainwright Talks Aging, North Carolina, the Benedict Cumberbatch Conundrum & 'Sensitive' Gays
Photo: Matthew Welch "I'm not at the psychiatrist's office." Rufus Wainwright realizes that now, years later. There was a time, he acknowledges, amused by the notion, that interviews such as the one we're engaged in passed as therapy. For that [...]
LGBT Advocate's 'Memories of a Penitent Heart' Seeks Truth About the HIV-Positive Gay Uncle Her Family Shunned
Cecilia Aldarondo's uncle Miguel died of AIDS-related illness in the mid-1980s when she was 6. She barely knew him, and then he was gone. Moreover, Miguel's truth was obliterated. His life as a gay man? Just a "disease." His longtime partner, [...]
Nick Jonas on Inspiring Drag Kings, His 'Very Welcoming' Gay Club Experience and How His Man Bod Changed His Life
Photo: Yu Tsai Boys do Nick Jonas sometimes, but it's mostly girls. They dress up as the pop star, emulating his rousing onstage persona and donning denim that looks practically painted on. Yes, if we needed further proof about why the 23-year-old [...]
Q&A: Jane Lynch on Singing Nicki Minaj, How She Thought Being Lesbian Was a 'Mental Disease' & Her Man Crush
You better believe Jane Lynch can sing, and even if you don't, "I think by the time you buy the ticket and come to the show, you hope I can sing! You've got your fingers crossed!" the "Glee" alum says of her touring act "See Jane Sing," cracking [...]
Cyndi Lauper on Fame, Going Country & Wanting to Star In 'What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?' with Madonna
Photo: Chapman Baehler It's not just about having fun anymore. For Cyndi Lauper, music runs deeper than her '80s-era eccentricities may have seemed to suggest. A collection of classics from the Great American Songbook, deep Memphis-based blues, the [...]
Hear Me Out: Gwen Stefani, Bonnie Raitt
Gwen Stefani, 'This Is What the Truth Feels Like' Poor Gwen Stefani, all heartbroken on "Used to Love You," the launch single from her long-delayed album that set the stage for what seemed like a return to the rawness of her No Doubt days. [...]
How Jess T. Dugan Is Transforming Minds with Photos of Transgender Trailblazers
There's a photograph of Jess T. Dugan from 2005 with bandages over where her breasts used to be. She's standing nude beside her mother and the two are pillars. The photo is a powerful declaration of self – recognizing it, embracing it. "I have [...]
Tituss Burgess on Season 2 of 'Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,' How Tina Fey Pushes His Limits ('I'm in White Face, Man!') & His Viral Sensation 'Peeno Noir'
Photo: Netflix The Internet loves a good penis pun. One of 2015's biggest breakout stars, Tituss Burgess, discovered this fact last year, when the "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" actor's already-escalating showbiz profile reached new heights thanks to a [...]
How Photographer Jess Dugan Is Transforming Minds with Portraits of Transgender Trailblazers
Caprice, 55, Chicago. Photo by Jess T. Dugan There's a photograph of Jess T. Dugan from 2005 with bandages over where her breasts used to be. She's standing nude beside her mother and the two are pillars. The photo is a powerful declaration of self [...]
Gwen Stefani Speaks Her (Gay) 'Truth': The Divorce She 'Tried to Fix,' Blake Shelton & Her LGBT Support System
Don't speak? Gwen Stefani can't help it as she opens up about her latest release – the "record that saved my life." Featuring a multitude of diary-like outpourings related to Gavin Rossdale, whom the No Doubt frontwoman divorced in 2015 after 13 [...]
Q&A: Steve Grand Talks Haters, Fans Who Tickle Him, His 'Appropriately Sized' Penis & 'Gritty' Next Album
Steve Grand can barely stand himself – that is, the superficial, Internet-packaged version of the singer/songwriter/dreamboat presented to the public since even before his 2013 viral hit "All-American Boy" rocked our gay world. "I don't like the me [...]