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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.

Sarah Silverman Talks Poop, Miley & 'Life-Changing' HBO Special

Photo by Robyn von Swank There's nothing too taboo for Sarah Silverman. Not AIDS, not poop. And in her 20-year career - which began in 1993 with a spot on "Saturday Night Live," and then led to a hit comedy special, "Jesus is Magic," and her own [...]

The Truth About Pink's Tour: It's Amazing

Photo by Chris Azzopardi All you pop stars out there, go home. You've been served by Pink, who raised the bar for arena spectacles during her second show this year at the Palace of Auburn Hills, where, back in March, Detroit fans first experienced [...]

Hear Me Out: Celine Dion, Katy Perry

Celine Dion, 'Loved Me Back to Life' To have the glass-shattering lung power that Celine Dion has built an empire of love songs on in the last 20-some years hardly matters anymore. Shock value, personal stories of triumph and/or tragedy, and [...]

Panic! Frontman On Being A Little Gay, Bisexual Anthem & Getting Naked

UPDATE: What does Brendon Urie have to say about the Westboro Baptist Church protest? Click here for our latest interview with the frontman. After years of speculation, Brendon Urie is coming out as … "a straight dabbler"? Panic! at the [...]

Gloria Estefan Talks Broadway Musical, J. Lo Rumors & Being 'Saved' By Gays

You'd be lucky to see Gloria Estefan busting out the conga these days, but that doesn't mean she's not keeping on her toes. A spot on "Glee" last year, a new album, an upcoming Broadway musical, restaurants, hotels - the singer's busier than ever, [...]

Hear Me Out: Miley Cyrus, Haim

Miley Cyrus, 'Bangerz' Goodbye, Hannah Montana; hello tongue-wagging, midriff-baring Miley Cyrus. Slipping out of her child-star skin, the infamous twerker leads a band of misfits to independence and self-empowerment on "Bangerz," a fully realized [...]

McConaughey & Leto On Gay Bars, Personal Inspiration For 'Dallas Buyers Club'

Photo: Focus Features The AIDS crisis reached a devastating peak in the mid '80s, a time before cocktail therapies were sustaining life. Then, people were diagnosed and dead within days. Ron Woodroof should've been. The party boy, who was given just [...]

Screen Queen: Halloween Edition

Chucky: The Complete Collection Dolls used to be disposable. Toss 'em, sell 'em, give 'em to Goodwill. Not Chucky. The little ginger shit just won't go away. A quarter-century after "Child's Play" made a very convincing argument that those cuddly [...]

Screen Queen: Behind the Candelabra, Tales of the City, more

Behind the Candelabra Looking beyond the razzle-dazzle - though plenty of sequins shake out in this Emmy-loved HBO telepic - director Steven Soderbergh evades camp kitsch for a sexually fearless and captivating expose on the vanity, fame and [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Janelle Monáe Q&A: The Gay Interview

The ambiguity of Janelle Monáe can be summed up in her own two words: "top secret." That - and, "I'm sorry, I can't tell you" - is all she says about her pompadour when asked how it stays in a perfect pouf. It's the kind of James Bond elusiveness [...]

Hear Me Out: Ariana Grande, Janelle Monae

Ariana Grande, 'Yours Truly' Hold up, people. Ariana Grande, even with all the belts and coos and high notes, is not the new Mariah Carey. As good as the onetime child actress can be - and she has many earth-shattering, stratospherical vocal [...]

Michael Urie Q&A: 'I Felt Bad' I Couldn't Be 'Ugly Betty' Character

Photo: Christopher Beyer Michael Urie doesn't mean to disappoint you. It's just that after basically becoming Marc St. James on "Ugly Betty," the hit ABC comedy that launched his career, he's often expected to be a flamboyantly catty queen. And he's [...]