Chris Azzopardi
Brandon Scott Jones Just Wants to Help Queer Youth Feel Seen
This year, Brandon Scott Jones is showing up in the most random of places. There’s his series regular role in “Ghosts,” portraying the spirit of American Revolutionary officer Captain Isaac Higgintoot, who is gay. There’s his [...]
Taylor Swift Makes Strong Case for Gay Icon Status During Eras Stop in Detroit
On my way to Ford Field in downtown Detroit for the first night of Taylor Swift’s brilliant and breathtaking Eras Tour, I joked with my concert mate that he’d have to remember the show for me, even though that was my job. That is if, of [...]
Gov. Whitmer Talks Pride, Violence Against Trans Women and Her Latest Reaction to Running for President
It’s Pride Month, but this one feels different. There’s both a sense of joy (because the Democratic majority in the Michigan legislature is still working to protect its queer population) and dread (because, nationally, anti-LGBTQ+ laws [...]
Letter from the Editor: Pride Marches On
As LGBTQ+ people across Michigan continue to celebrate our community out on the streets of big cities and small towns alike, another trans woman has been killed in Michigan. The loss of Ashia “Charm” Davis, just 34, is heart-wrenching. [...]
Motor City Pride Performer Jordy on His High Michigan Recording Sessions and Making His Career Work For Him
Emerging pop artist Jordy challenged himself on his recent tour and failed. The challenge? “I tried getting through the whole tour with one manicure,” he tells Pride Source over Zoom. “I got almost to the end of it, but I was like, [...]
Where the Past Meets the Present: Capturing Pride 40 Years Ago
Are we capturing history every day without even knowing it? Forty years ago, photographer Nicholas Blair wasn’t intentionally immortalizing a specific era of what we now call the LGBTQ+ community — he just felt compelled to take photos [...]
On His Latest Disco-Heavy Album, Jake Shears Dances Through the Heartbreak
Listening to his newest album, you wouldn’t know Jake Shears went through a pandemic breakup. After all, he doesn’t process his personal hardships through his music, Shears admitted to me during our recent interview.And so “Last Man [...]
The Best Places in the World to Hook Up, According to Bisexual Sex Writer Zachary Zane
Sex writer Zachary Zane’s first book, “Boyslut,” wasn’t even on shelves when we recently connected, but the author was already thinking about his next.“I might just transition more into sex travel,” says Zane, who [...]
With 'Somebody Somewhere,' Comedian Jeff Hiller Is Bringing a 'Touch of Fugs' to Queer-Inclusive TV
It’s hard to imagine Jeff Hiller making people mad. But in 2004, that was the 46-year-old comedian and actor’s job. It was his responsibility to get folks angry — those people being contestants on MTV’s hidden-camera reality [...]
Hopefully, Matteo Lane Doesn’t Hate This Interview
There are many places where you’ve probably seen Matteo Lane: in Royal Oak last year at Mark Ridley's Comedy Castle, on Netflix’s queer comic showcase “The Comedy Lineup” and on his something-for-everyone Instagram, where [...]
A Gayer ‘Scream’: How Jasmin Savoy Brown Is on a Mission to Make Her 'Scream VI' Character as Queer as Possible
It took five “Scream” movies and 25 years before LGBTQ+ horror fans got what the original film only alluded to: full-blown, uncoded queerness. Kevin Williamson, the openly gay screenwriter of Wes Craven’s 1997 slasher satire, [...]
Cara Delevingne Can Finally Be Her Queer Self: ‘Planet Sex’ Host on Unlearning LGBTQ+ Shame and How Hollywood Stunted Her Sexuality
On Zoom, where I recently met with Cara Delevingne, my ’90s-retro, rainbow-speckled button-down was, to my surprise, the first thing that came up.“Nice shirt,” the model-actress told me, gushing when I mentioned picking it out of my [...]