Chris Azzopardi
Madge-ic moments
"Make a hometown girl feel welcome," Madonna urged at her long-time-coming return to Michigan Nov. 18. And, at Detroit's Ford Field, they did. All 30,000 of them. Amidst an undersold sea of girls and gays, the Rochester native performed, as part of [...]
Milk,' meet Oscar
Gay rights activist Harvey Milk was tragically gunned down in 1978, but his legacy – and his rousing words, "You gotta give 'em hope" – spill into the now. Which is what makes out director Gus Van Sant's classic-destined biopic about Milk's [...]
Off to Africa
The closet door is opening – but not because Adam Martin's coming out. He's going back in. Leaving behind four years as a prevention specialist with Community AIDS Resource and Education Services in Kalamazoo, where he educates men who have sex with [...]
The 'Milk' Man
Jerks make Denis O'Hare tick – but not like they do most people. He gravitates toward them, and vice versa, which is the Michigan native's reason for spending the latter portion of his cameo career pissing people off. O'Hare also isn't most people; [...]
Crazy For Her
Think you're the biggest Madonna fan? You haven't met Daniel Lawing, Darrick Giguere or Devin Jones. For them – and countless other gays – Madonna's long-awaited homecoming at Ford Field will be one heckuva holiday. Daniel, a former Michigander [...]
Dream world
Comtempo musical "Were the World Mine" doesn't need to hocus-pocus us with some mind-changing trickery; it's spellbinding from the get-go. Inflated from director Tom Gustafson's original short film "Fairies," Timothy (the delightful Tanner Cohen) is [...]
Straight couple in a gay world
How ironic that Michael Emerson calls for a tamer world. As the is-he-bad-or-not antagonist in ABC's mind-game-playing "Lost" and in the very first "Saw" flick, the last thing you imagine the guy most know as Ben Linus saying – and so tenderly – is: [...]
Tru'-ly unloved
If the final aw-moments in "Tru Loved" were indeed true, California's deplorable Prop. 8 wouldn't have stood a chance in hell of passing. But, topped with a pretty pink bow, queer writer-director Stewart Wade's out-of-touch dramedy mostly deserved [...]
Won't you be her neighbor?
Talking cushions, a dancing flower, a singing can – and a lesbian host? Doesn't seem like a ubiquitous scenario for a kids show – and it isn't, considering the lack of LGBT family programming – but the independent "Dottie's Magic Pockets," a Pink [...]
Behind the sex
A new expose on gay porn stars – here!'s gritty and surprisingly poignant "Everything You Wanted to Know About Gay Porn Stars … But Were Afraid to Ask" – digs deeper than some of these guys have gone. But the documentary, which premieres Nov. 7, [...]
Party pooper
Party's over. Middle-finger-raised "So What," the catchy in-your-face No. 1 single from "Funhouse," is pure Pink: It's a boaster where the toughie brags to her ex-hubby (motocross racer Carey Hart), "I got my rock moves, and I don't want you [...]
The Love Guru
Michael Feinstein gives good love. The rich-as-chocolate-voiced troubadour not only recently released a lovey-dovey Frank Sinatra covers album, "The Sinatra Project," but he and his partner, Terrence Flannery, married Oct. 17 after 11 years [...]