Chris Azzopardi
Q&A: Peaches Talks Childhood Trans Friend, Sex In Pop Music, Vaginas & How Nicki Minaj 'Slays All These Guys'
"Look. I don't have breasts anymore." Peaches is reminiscing on a dear friend she grew up with, when he showed up at her door, and came out to her as transgender. Memories of their summers spent together spill out of her as if they happened [...]
The Riot's Riot: 'Stonewall' Actor, Director Talk Race Controversy ('I Was Shocked') & Nerve-Racking Gay Sex Scene
Blowback from a mere two-minute-and-twenty-three-second trailer of "Stonewall" stormed the web in early August. It was intense. Like the historic brick-throwing, slur-lashing brawl that broke out in New York City outside a Greenwich Village gay bar [...]
Hear Me Out: Carly Rae Jepsen, Robyn
Carly Rae Jepsen, 'E*MO*TION' Carly Rae Jepsen came out of nowhere, seized radio, dug a hole in your head and planted a little song there named "Call Me Maybe." It grew and grew. It grew so much you are, at this very moment, singing it. And it's [...]
The Cho Must Go On: Margaret Laments Loss Of Comedy Heroes, Talks 'Daughter' Amy Schumer, Memoir & Bisexuality
Margaret Cho was a comedian even before she knew it. "As a kid, I was thinking all these things," Cho, 46, recalls, expounding on her surprising childhood shyness, "and when I would say them, people would laugh. I was really confused by that." It [...]
Screen Queen: The Comeback, It Follows, The Nanny
The Comeback When HBO gave their beloved mockumentary "The Comeback" the dreaded cut after its 13-episode run in 2005, it was a sad, sad time for us gays. How would we go on living without our favorite cupcake, Valerie Cherish, a narcissist we [...]
Leona Lewis, Free & Unfiltered: On Her 'Gay Husbands,' 'Lost' Pop Stars & How Her Gay Uncle Taught Her To Be Herself
Photo: Catie Laffoon Leona Lewis is having a Mariah Carey moment. She's singing, mimicking the ascending whistle notes that close out Carey's early-'90s hit "Emotions." It's not much – just a few notes, sung as the song comes up casually in our [...]
Q&A: Carly Rae Jepsen On How Justin Bieber Made 'My Dreams Come True,' The Sly Gayness Of 'Call Me Maybe' & Becoming An LGBT Activist
Carly Rae Jepsen is calling – and no, not maybe. This is a real-life phone date (pegged, of course, to the release of her latest synth-pop concoction, "E*MO*TION") wherein the 29-year-old is bubbly over, well, just about everything: Her career. The [...]
Q&A: Zachary Quinto Calls Upon LGBT Actors to 'Be Who They Are,' Says The World Is Ready For a Gay James Bond
"Oh, Jesus." Zachary Quinto is aptly responding to the fact that, yes, despite establishing himself as an Emmy-nominated actor with versatility, out-of-this-world talent and some of the best eyebrows in the biz, he once starred on an episode of [...]
Q&A: The Bird and The Bee On How They're 'Amazed' By The Gays, Casual Sex, Their Secret Tribute LP & Not Being Lovers
Greg Kurstin and Inara George, collectively known as the Bird and the Bee, are standing at the doorway of Webster Hall in New York City, where they're about to take the stage. Kurstin, 46, raves about the free chocolates he's about to take full [...]
Q&A: Director Xavier Dolan On Why You Shouldn't Call His New Film A 'Gay Thriller,' Directing Kathy Bates & Susan Sarandon
Photo: Shayne Laverdiere Xavier Dolan is fulminating against the gay tag that typically accompanies his revered art films. Though indies such as "Laurence Anyways," "I Killed My Mother" and "Mommy" have earned Dolan substantial queer cred, [...]
Flowers and Co. kill it
Only a gay guy – or a straight dude raised on queer musicians – would have a birthname like Brandon Flowers. And the pretty boy frontman of The Killers (who is, by the way, hetero – and a daddy) was frank about his gay influences with The Advocate [...]
Hear Me Out: Miguel, Kacey Musgraves
Miguel, 'Wildheart' Carnal sex is the gateway to bittersweet romanticism on Miguel's modern-lust-and-love odyssey, "Wildheart." And the pompadoured R&B seducer's third studio album is not beating around the bush. Or is it? In the most literal [...]