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Chris Azzopardi

Chris Azzopardi

Chris Azzopardi is the Editorial Director of Pride Source Media Group and Q Syndicate, the national LGBTQ+ wire service. He has interviewed a multitude of superstars, including Cher, Meryl Streep, Mariah Carey and Beyoncé. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, GQ and Billboard. Reach him via Twitter @chrisazzopardi.

Toni Braxton Q&A On Having A Lesbian Experience, Fighting With Babyface & The Hit Song She Hates

Photo: Marc Baptiste Toni Braxton is getting deep. Real deep. "I have a bit of a cold," she says, her voice doing that sexy-low thing it does when she sings, "so yeah, it's very Bea Arthur from 'The Golden Girls.'" A little cold can't stop Braxton, [...]

A Year In Review: What The Celebs Said

In her first gay press interview, Christian-crossover legend Amy Grant welcomed the gay community to church, a boy bander admitted to being a "fag hag" and Britney Spears called you a girl. Here's a look back at 2013 and what these celebs - and a [...]

Hear Me Out: Top 10 of '13

10. Arcade Fire, 'Reflektor' Winning the big daddy of Grammys for "The Suburbs" didn't just change Arcade Fire's career - an Album of the Year trophy will do that - but it also, in part, changed their sound. The Canadian avant-gardes went bolder [...]

Screen Queen: The Gift Guide

COMEDY QUEENS The Heat As a disorderly Boston police detective with a mouth dirtier than the bottom of a garbage truck, Melissa McCarthy plays a seemingly lesbian-inspired toughie, and Sandra Bullock her conservative foil, in Paul Feig's [...]

Kacey Musgraves Follows Her Arrow To Detroit

Kacey Musgraves was still high when she stepped out onto the stage at St. Andrews Hall in Detroit on the night of Dec. 7. Not the high of lighting up a joint and puffing away - which, if you've heard her latest single, "Follow Your Arrow" (the [...]

Hear Me Out ... For The Holidays

Kelly Clarkson, 'Wrapped in Red' In 1963, background-singer-turned-soloist Darlene Love got with big-time producer Phil Spector to turn out the December perennial "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)." Love was in a class all by herself, singing [...]

INTERVIEW: Britney Spears Talks Gay Fans: 'They're Somewhat Girls'

Photo: Michelangelo Di Battista It's Britney, bitch. No, really, it is. She's on the phone. And Britney Spears - the meek, reserved, media-shy entertainer - doesn't get on the phone with press very often these days. She's speaking to me from L.A. on [...]

INTERVIEW: Britney Spears Talks Gay Fans: 'They're Somewhat Girls'

cut/ Michelangelo Di Battista ItÕs Britney, bitch. No, really, it is. SheÕs on the phone. And Britney Spears - the meek, reserved, media-shy entertainer - doesnÕt get on the phone with press very often these days. SheÕs speaking to me from L.A. [...]

INTERVIEW: Britney Spears Talks Gay Fans: 'They're Somewhat Girls'

It’s Britney, bitch. No, really, it is. She’s on the phone. And Britney Spears doesn’t get on the phone with press very often these days.

Gilbert Gottfried On Female Comics 'Trying Too Hard' & 'Aladdin' Homophobia

The voice of Gilbert Gottfried is so distinguishable you can practically hear it now: high-pitched and abrasively boisterous, it's like he sucked on a balloon right before he opened his mouth. It's really no wonder, then, that the cartoony comedian [...]

Hear Me Out: Lady Gaga, Arcade Fire

Lady Gaga, 'ARTPOP' So much for that high-concept, post-modern ingenuity that "ARTPOP" promised even before Lady Gaga hawked it as the album of not the year, not the decade, but of the millennium. This isn't that album. Not even close. Not when it [...]

Mel B Talks The Gay 'Eye,' Spice Girls Rumors & Loving A Woman

Mel B will tell you what she wants, what she really, really wants: to get back to being Scary Spice again. Not that the pop star, known as the Spice Girls' wild child, ever got away from her alter ego. But even with a solo song out now - "For Once [...]