Chris Azzopardi
Shania Twain on What LGBTQ+ Allyship Means to Her and Being Queen of Her Own Actions
The first time I connected with Shania Twain in 2017, the country-pop music icon didn’t pull any punches, saying “equality should be a no-brainer” as she spoke thoughtfully about her relationship with the LGBTQ+ community. Twain [...]
WATCH: ‘Princess Power’ Producers Drew Barrymore and Savannah Guthrie on Gay Dads, Girl Power and Helping Kids Love Who They Are
Snow White? I don’t know her. These days, the delicate, demure princesses from the earliest days of Disney films are history, replaced by a more socially progressive kind of young lady royalty that puts leadership and skills first, frilly [...]
Billy Porter Chose Authenticity. Now He's Directing TV and Acting Alongside Living Legends.
You could say Billy Porter was born to play just about all of his roles. This, of course, is true of his portrayal of Pray Tell, the actor’s Emmy Award-winning part on “Pose,” and his star-making, Tony Award-winning role in [...]
Homeless After the Music Business Rejected Her, This Trans Director’s First Film Just Premiered at Sundance
The same music industry that initially embraced D. Smith when she was presenting as a man turned against her when she transitioned. She lost her house, her car and her music studio. This was 2014, the year Smith, who has produced songs for Lil Wayne, [...]
Actor Cole Escola Has Played a Fetus, So Anything Is Possible
On Cole Escola’s Instagram page, the 36-year-old nonbinary comedian and actor describes themself as “One of Grindr’s Fresh Faces.” That’s true, of course, on and off gay social apps. Escola, who continues their ascension [...]
‘Spoiler Alert’ Actor Ben Aldridge Came Out in 2020. Now He’s a Leading Gay Man in Two Big Studio Films.
This is Ben Aldridge’s moment, and that’s no spoiler alert. The Los Angeles Times already made that call in a recent profile of the 37-year-old English actor, writing that Aldridge is “on the cusp of stardom.”And so it seems, [...]
Why 'Loot' Star Michaela Jaé Rodriguez Still Hasn't Celebrated Her Historical Golden Globe Win
In early 2022, Michaela Jaé Rodriguez made history as the first openly trans actor to win a Golden Globe, an award she earned for her role on “Pose.” Nearly a year later and she’s yet to properly celebrate that groundbreaking [...]
Two Gay Friends From Detroit: Lily Tomlin Remembers the Magic of Allee Willis
The “Classic Lily” tab on Lily Tomlin’s official website — noted as “the world’s only” — is, today, barely operational. It looks like it was created at the dawn of the internet and never updated.The [...]
Sigourney Weaver on Why She Decided Her Character Would Be a Lesbian in 'Call Jane'
Urgent, timely, crucial. As we find ourselves thrust into the post-Roe era, following the U.S. Supreme Court decision in June to overturn the constitutional right to abortion established by the 1972 Roe v. Wade ruling, it’s impossible not to [...]
WATCH: Queer Icon Sigourney Weaver Reacts to Realizing Her Birthday Is on International Lesbian Day
We don’t have to tell you that Sigourney Weaver is a lesbian icon thanks, in large part, to her legendary portrayal of Ripley in the “Alien" franchise.And what do the best lesbian icons do? They tap into that lesbian icon instinct [...]
So Your Kid Is Queer: How Parents Can Be Who Their LGBTQ+ Child Needs Them To Be
Parenting a queer child comes with unique considerations. After all, LGBTQ+ people, despite advances in protections and rights (though, more recently, some terrifying pushbacks), may be better off than they were 20 or even 10 years ago, but this [...]
‘Monarch’ Star Beth Ditto on Why LGBTQ+ Representation Matters to Kids Everywhere, But Especially in the South
All this talk of authentic representation and, finally, we’re seeing it. In fact, we’re seeing a lot of it in the extremely dramatic new Fox soap-esque series “Monarch.” Here, Gossip frontwoman Beth Ditto, who is proudly fat [...]