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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.

Nelly Furtado Talks Gay Clubbing, First Drag Experience & Coming Full Circle With New Album

Photo: Joseph Llanes There's a story Nelly Furtado likes to tell of her seeing two lesbian teens squeeze each other while crying as she sang " … On the Radio (Remember the Days)" on one of her first tours. Furtado doesn't remember the venue. She [...]

Hear Me Out: Best of 2012 (So Far)

Lana Del Rey, 'Born to Die' She was all anyone could talk about in the beginning of the year, but for all the wrong reasons: Lana Del Rey's two performances on "Saturday Night Live," of singles "Video Games" and "Blue Jeans," were awkward and [...]

Jordin Sparkles

Whitney Houston's starring role – the last before her tragic death earlier this year – isn't the only reason "Sparkle" has gay written all over it: there's the flamboyant style of the '60s, an all-girl singing group and, well, the movie's name. [...]

Frenchie Davis Talks Bisexuality & Homophobia in the Black Community

Everything happens for a reason in the life of Frenchie Davis. Ten years after getting disqualified from "American Idol" for her Internet porn past, she became a finalist on "The Voice," sang with Christina Aguilera and releases her debut album [...]

Coldplay in Detroit: The Gay Review

"You know how I know you're gay? You like Coldplay." Paul Rudd might've been onto something when, in "The 40 Year Old Virgin," he declared that admiring Chris Martin and Company meant you had a little pep in your step. Coldplay's show on Aug. 1 at [...]

Hear Me Out: Whitney's Final Songs Reviewed

Frank Ocean, 'channel ORANGE' Even if Frank Ocean hadn't recently acknowledged that he's an equal-opportunity lover, becoming one of the first major hip-hop artists to come out, his very personal major-label debut doesn't hide a thing: He's living [...]

INTERVIEW: Jordin Sparks: 'Whitney Loved Her Gays'

Whitney Houston's starring role – the last before her tragic death earlier this year – isn't the only reason "Sparkle" has gay written all over it: there's the flamboyant style of the '60s, an all-girl singing group and, well, the movie's name. [...]

My Provincetown Picks

The thick smell of seafood isn't something Michigan offers unless you're in the Red Lobster parking lot. But in Boston, at Bay State Cruise Company's pier at World Trade Center, the lingering aroma of fresh fish followed me all the way on the [...]

Ruby' Almost Sparks

The idea of love with a make-believe mate isn't a novel concept. (Ryan Gosling, as an awkward loner, was all about his blow-up doll in "Lars and the Real Girl.") Except the concept of "Ruby Sparks" is a novel: Calvin Weir-Fields (Paul Dano) is an [...]

Frank Ocean: More Than Just a Man-Lover

Even if Frank Ocean hadn't recently acknowledged that he's an equal-opportunity lover, becoming one of the first major hip-hop artists to come out, his very personal major-label debut, "channel ORANGE," doesn't hide a thing: He's living it up with [...]

Travis Wall Talks New Reality Series and Challenge for Gay Dancers

So he thought he could dance, and he can, but Travis Wall didn't stop there. Now, the 24-year-old has his own dance company, a start-up that's the focus of Oxygen's new reality series, "All the Right Moves," premiering July 31. The eight-episode [...]

Gina Gershon On Gay Roles, 'Magic Mike' Vs. 'Showgirls' & Crotch Close-Up

Vagina. That's the first thing to come up during my recent interview with Gina Gershon, who goes full-frontal as Sharla in the awesomely twisted "Killer Joe." The actress plays a trashy two-timer who gets caught in the middle of a family's murder [...]