Chris Azzopardi
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Detroit, MI, United States
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Cara Delevingne Can Finally Be Her Queer Self: ‘Planet Sex’ Host on Unlearning LGBTQ+ Shame and How Hollywood Stunted Her Sexuality
On Zoom, where I recently met with Cara Delevingne, my ’90s-retro, rainbow-speckled button-down was, to my surprise, the first thing that came up. “Nice → Read More
Homeless After the Music Business Rejected Her, This Trans Director’s First Film Just Premiered at Sundance
The same music industry that initially embraced D. Smith when she was presenting as a man turned against her when she transitioned. She lost her house, → Read More
WATCH: Queer Icon Sigourney Weaver Reacts to Realizing Her Birthday Is on International Lesbian Day
We don’t have to tell you that Sigourney Weaver is a lesbian icon thanks, in large part, to her legendary portrayal of Ripley in the “Alien" franchise. → Read More
So Your Kid Is Queer: How Parents Can Be Who Their LGBTQ+ Child Needs Them To Be
Parenting a queer child comes with unique considerations. After all, LGBTQ+ people, despite advances in protections and rights (though, more recently, → Read More
‘Monarch’ Star Beth Ditto on Why LGBTQ+ Representation Matters to Kids Everywhere, But Especially in the South
All this talk of authentic representation and, finally, we’re seeing it. In fact, we’re seeing a lot of it in the extremely dramatic new Fox soap-esque → Read More
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 → Read More
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 → Read More
Jaida Essence Hall Would Like to Properly Experience Detroit for the First Time During Werq the World Tour
When Jaida Essence Hall gets to Detroit for the Werq the World tour, her visit will mark the first time she’s been anywhere in Michigan outside Detroit → Read More
With ‘Queer as Folk’ and ‘Hacks,’ Johnny Sibilly Keeps Ascending to New Career Heights
If you think you’ve heard the name Johnny Sibilly, you have. Or at the very least you’ve seen him, whether on FX’s groundbreaking trans-focused series → Read More
A Juicy Emergence: Sofi Tukker Talks Inclusive Values, Dancing Together Again and Erotic Fruit
For Sophie Hawley-Weld and Tucker Halpern, better known as Sofi Tukker, it doesn’t need to be Pride for it to feel like a Pride show. The duo has been → Read More
Normalizing Queerness, One Gay Kiss at a Time: Michael Cimino and George Sear Talk 'Love, Victor'
“Love, Victor,” now in its second season, refuses to navigate coming out as simply a one-note experience. The gay teen-romance, a series spinoff of the → Read More
Happy Pride Month! Now Go Choke on a Rainbow, Tony Perkins
Aside from women daring to make their own reproductive decisions, there’s nothing right-wing conservatives hate more than Pride Month. The “rainbow → Read More
Q&A: Leslie Jordan Has Been Acting for Decades. But Now 'Fans Know Me as Me'
“Where should I be looking? There? Or there?” His face smothering the camera as he wonders where his eyes should be, Leslie Jordan is settling into our → Read More
Stanley Tucci on Playing Gay Since 1996. And How Some People Actually Think He's Gay.
Stanley Tucci has survived the icy death stare of Meryl Streep’s Miranda Priestly and told Cher to her face that she looks like a drag queen. Aside from → Read More
Life (and Death) Again, Through Alan Ball's Eyes
Few know their way around a funeral scene like master of mortality Alan Ball. The writer-director-producer had his fair share of time to get it just right → Read More
I Love You (But Do You Love Mariah Carey?)
How I learned to accept that my dreamlover probably won’t adore the pop diva as much as I do. → Read More
A Big Love: Robyn Crawford Talks About Her Romance With Whitney Houston
After four decades of speculation that they were romantically involved, Robyn Crawford has spoken her truth: She loved Whitney Houston. In her heartfelt autobiography released late last year, "A Song for You: My Life with Whitney Houston," Crawford shares that their love was real but stifled, a romance that, at first intimate and sexual, wavered → Read More
Robyn Keeps You Guessing: Pop Icon Talks ‘Pure Bond’ with LGBTQ Fans, Doing Drag & Next LP – Pride Source
If you’re not a Robyn fan, you’re not gay. Or so they say. I told Robyn about this POV from the gay Twitter collective when I called her direct on Skype recently – it was remarkably human of the pop goddess to answer, with no publicist listening in — and with a titter → Read More
Why Hedwig and the Angry Inch Still Sings—And Blows Bohemian Rhapsody Away
“Everyone knew Bohemian Rhapsody was gonna suck. Why did they go see it? I don’t get it,” laughs John Cameron Mitchell as his classic queer film gets a new Criterion release. “In a way we had to do a fictional to avoid the clichés that real people fall into.” → Read More
Melissa Etheridge Talks New Cannabis-Fueled LP, Inner Space & Paving the Way For ‘P*ssy Is God’ – Pride Source
Ain’t it heavy? Ain’t the night heavy? The opioid crisis, national anxiety, school shootings. Our political zoo. The general feeling that the world is always, probably ending. Because she’s a human being even though she’s Melissa Etheridge, this all weighed considerably on the 57-year-old LGBTQ icon when she went into the studio → Read More