Chris Azzopardi
Hear Me Out: Dolly goes jolly on 'Better Day'
Dolly Parton, 'Better Day' Times are hard, but Dolly's here with a new album – and her trademark look-on-the-bright-side attitude – to tell you it's not all that bad. "Grindstones and rhinestones, that made up my life" – you know it, drag queens – [...]
What the folk?
Abigail Stauffer and Chris Bathgate 8 p.m. July 15 The Ark ($15) 316 S. Main St., Ann Arbor http://www.theark.org It felt like I'd known Abigail Stauffer for years. She greeted me with her friendly good-to-see-you smile, and just mere minutes into [...]
The (Gay) Gaga Interview
Lady Gaga is one of the biggest superstars in the world. But speaking to her only briefly during this rare interview, she evades her larger-than-life image with affable charm, self-deprecating humor (take that, so-called penis) and a down-to-earth [...]
All That Glitters is (Sorta) Gay
Back when Taylor Mac was wearing khakis and button-downs, people would tune him out. When the drag performer slipped into something that fit his offbeat personality – long flowing dresses that demand attention – they didn't have a choice. "If [...]
Katy Perry gets playful, pervy during Michigan show
Perched on a flowery swing halfway through her two-hour show at the Palace of Auburn Hills on Tuesday, Katy Perry lamented during a song, "I didn't feel the fairytale feeling." But the 13,000 people – mostly teenage girls and gays – who attended [...]
EXCLUSIVE: The (Gay) Gaga Interview
Lady Gaga is one of the biggest superstars in the world. But speaking to her only briefly during this rare interview, she evades her larger-than-life image with affable charm, self-deprecating humor (take that, so-called penis) and a down-to-earth [...]
Hear Me Out: Best of 2011 (So Far)
Divas dominated the first half of this year, but the Adele-Britney-Gaga train wasn't the only one rolling through. All three ladies, though, made our mid-year review, a look back at the last six months of Hear Me Out and the eight albums you [...]
k.d. lang: 'I don't know who Chely Wright is'
k.d. lang is manning up, and here's why: Lady Gaga, Katy Perry and all the other sexpots of pop who shoot whipped cream from their chests and ride disco sticks. In our recent interview with lang, a longtime gay activist and singer of the purest [...]
Matthew Morrison: As Gay As He Gets
Matthew Morrison doesn't mind being the gayest straight man you know. The 32-year-old actor recently called being a member of a gay boy band in the 2003 film "Marci X" the "gayest thing" he's done in his career. And that's saying a lot – he's [...]
Ewan McGregor: 'I Learned a Lot'
Ewan McGregor didn't mean to offend you. As the debonair actor sits down in Los Angeles to talk up his latest film "Beginners," he's genuinely upset if his last "gay" movie, "I Love You Phillip Morris," was insultingly stereotypical to the queer [...]
Mike Mills: My Gay Dad
Mike Mills didn't really know his father until he came out. When the director's dad came swooshing out of the closet at the ripe age of 75, after decades of being married to a woman, not a moment was wasted. He lived freely, wildly and, most of [...]
Hear Me Out: Lady Gaga's gay gospel, 'Born This Way'
Lady Gaga, 'Born This Way' The third album from pop's poker-faced ingenue isn't quite album-of-the-decade deserving, as the star herself claimed it would be, but dear Gaga, it's gotta be the gayest. Gaga's message of self-love in the face of [...]