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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.

The ‘Very Special’ Reason ‘Chucky’ Star Lachlan Watson Loved Bringing Killer Doll’s Genderfluid Kids to Life

I don’t even ask Lachlan Watson about the Value Village cow onesie until halfway through our interview. But that’s how Watson first appears on Zoom, at one point even standing up to extend their arms out to proudly show off every inch of [...]

Why Bestselling Author Nora Roberts, a Queer Ally, Donated $50K to a Michigan Library Defunded Over LGBTQ+ Books

Bestselling romance author Nora Roberts tells Pride Source she has a simple reason for donating $50,000 to the Patmos Library in Michigan after she learned that, in August, voters in Jamestown Township voted to defund Patmos. Why? According to [...]

From the Editor: Why Our First NLGJA Award Means So Much

Just before an important panel at the NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists convention focused on telling stories related to the transgender community, I was incredibly proud to watch one of our star reporters, Ellen Shanna Knoppow, walk up to [...]

‘Long Live Montero’ Review: Lil Nas X Serves Defiant Celebration of Queerness During Debut Concert in Detroit

It didn’t take me long to stop caring if Lil Nas X’s show at Detroit’s Fox Theatre on Tuesday, the first show of his first tour, was going to be any good. I sometimes questioned the authenticity of his vocals — was that his [...]

How Randy Rainbow Is More 'Raw' Than He's Ever Been

There are far worse things happening in the world, clearly, but political-parody sensation Randy Rainbow does have a bone to pick with some folks. And this time, it’s not with Marjorie Taylor Greene. Not even with Donald Trump.“I’m [...]

Is It Unusual to Feel Late-Onset Arm Pain After Getting the Monkeypox Vaccine? 

What’s with the late-onset arm pain after getting your monkeypox vaccine?Sure, it’s not unusual that, when getting any kind of vaccination, you might experience some tenderness at the site of injection. The use of JYNNEOS, which is a [...]

30 Years After His First Audition for a Darren Star Project, Tuc Watkins Stars In One

Tuc Watkins hasn’t just seen how gay relationships have evolved on television — he’s been a part of that evolution. On “Desperate Housewives,” Watkins portrayed one half of gay couple Bob and Lee, who became residents of [...]

Neil Patrick Harris on Getting His Penis Just Right For ‘Uncoupled,’ Reveals Use of ‘Digital Dong’ in ‘Gone Girl’

It wasn’t that it was hard, but when Neil Patrick Harris shot a scene for the new Netflix series “Uncoupled,” in which his character tries to snap just the right Grindr shots, it was a little… hairy.It was “taking [...]

Kevin Bacon on 'Pride' He Felt Working with 'They/Them' Cast and Challenging LGBTQ+ Horror Tropes

Kevin Bacon is back at camp. Not Camp Crystal Lake, where the 64-year-old actor met his gruesome demise in the original 1980 horror classic “Friday the 13th.” But at the kind of camp that is a horrific reality for queer youth — [...]

Fight the Queer Book Ban By Lovin’ Up on These 11 New LGBTQ+ Reads

No matter what Republicans tell you, there’s never a bad time to get lost in a queer book. But now just happens to be a really good time to do so as parents pressure administrators to ban books with LGBTQ+ content from school classrooms and [...]

Jaida Essence Hall Would Like to Properly Experience Detroit for the First Time During Werq the World Tour

When Jaida Essence Hall gets to Michigan for the Werq the World tour, her visit will mark the first time she’s been anywhere in the state outside Detroit Metro Airport.“I can finally touch down and actually touch down,” says Hall, [...]

Loving Victor For the Last Time: Michael Cimino and George Sear Talk End of ‘Love, Victor'

For now, at least, it’s the end of “Venji.” Many watched Victor (Michael Cimino) and Benji (George Sear), the romantic heart of “Love, Victor,” to find a much-needed love rush amid pandemic weirdness. The series launched [...]