The gay icon defied time during the chic, heartfelt concert By Chris Azzopardi By Chris Azzopardi I spent 15 years attending the Catholic church (and over 15 years more attending pop concerts), so I can confidently say that pop music shows are a form of congregational worship in their own right. They serve as sermons

Will Ferrell and his longtime friend, who came out as trans in 2021, discuss how their road-trip movie aims to inspire allyship By Chris Azzopardi The influence of softhearted straight male allies for the LGBTQ+ community is gaining momentum in the era of Tim Walz. We can now count universally beloved comic actor Will Ferrell

With his new anthology, ‘A Great Gay Book,’ Ryan Fitzgibbon reflects on LGBTQ+ writers who shaped our world — and his own   By Chris Azzopardi  Before the current media landscape offered more explicit depictions of queer life outside of physical spaces like LGBTQ+ bars, you had Borders and you had zines, DIY publications offering non-conventional

| Over 40 years into her influential career, Cyndi Lauper is embarking on a reflective new era — one she has more than earned  By Chris Azzopardi  At 70, Cyndi Lauper’s special place in pop music history can be seen everywhere you look. Look around at abortion rights rallies and you’ll see “Girls Just Want

| How David Archuleta left behind the Mormon church to flourish as an openly queer person   By Chris Azzopardi  When David Archuleta returned to the “American Idol” stage in April, he knew that singing his latest single, “Hell Together,” which he wrote about his mother’s show of unconditional allyship after he came out in 2021

Is Living a Life She Never Thought She Could By Chris Azzopardi With another Movement on the horizon, the festival veteran opens up about feeling as free as the music she plays Jennifer Witcher is better known as DJ Minx at the Spot Lite Detroit nightclub and coffeehouse, where she saunters in one weekday afternoon

The queer comedian wants to show ‘people as people’ as he takes on a hot-button issue that has personally affected him  By Chris Azzopardi  When I think of Julio Torres, I think of someone who gave life to Ferrero Rocher. It’s a wild detail to recall about someone, but indicative of Torres as a comedian

| Ashmal Ali and Rehman Bhatti are the only same-sex couple on the series  By Chris Azzopardi  Polyamory has officially reached the zeitgeist. Beyond the queer community, where it has, perhaps, lived more openly for some time now, it is represented prominently in a recent issue of New York magazine in a way that can

| The ‘Schitt’s Creek’ creator plays a grieving husband in his directorial film debut, ‘Good Grief’  By Chris Azzopardi  The grief was very real for Dan Levy, who lost his grandma and rescue dog, Redmond, over the span of a couple of years during the pandemic. And then he did something very Dan Levy with

| ‘The Risk It Takes to Bloom’ author on living a life of ‘discomfort’ and how she hopes to change that for others  By Sarah Bricker Hunt  When Raquel Willis took the stage at the National Women’s March in Washington, D.C. the day after Trump’s inauguration in January 2017, with beaming defiance and fierce resolve,