| The out wordplayer wasn’t serious about pursuing songwriting but then, three albums later, it ‘obviously struck a chord’ By Chris Azzopardi Ask genre criss-crosser K. Flay about all the music she grew up with, what the soundtrack of her youth is, which CDs she rushed to the store for just as they hit the

| Looking alum Murray Bartlett talks ‘surreal’ San Francisco ties and playing an enduring Tales of the City character By Chris Azzopardi As Michael “Mouse” Tolliver, Looking alum Murray Bartlett is the third actor to walk the queer utopian enclave at 28 Barbary Lane in Armistead Maupin’s book-based Tales of the City. The role was

| Pop icon talks ‘pure bond’ with LGBTQ fans, doing drag and her queer culture connections By Chris Azzopardi 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

Dan Reynolds and Tegan Quin talk LGBTQ festival’s third year, leveling the industry playing field and the best kind of straight white man By Chris Azzopardi Imagine Dragons frontman Dan Reynolds’ devotion to LGBTQ issues – chief among them: mitigating queer-youth suicide rates – has only escalated in the years since he founded the first LoveLoud

| Laura Linney Has ‘Tales’ to Tell ‘Tales of the City’ vet talks returning to Barbary Lane, being a ‘mini’ gay icon and moving beyond the straight, white girl By Chris Azzopardi Driving into San Francisco, Laura Linney’s Mary Ann Singleton is flush with nostalgia, her lips gently bending into a soft, soothed smile. Home

| Hollywood icon talks gay following she never knew she had, lesbian roles (‘I’m available’) and The First Wives Club By Chris Azzopardi Diane Keaton doesn’t have all the answers to all the questions and she’s sorry about that. She’s sorry a lot. So sorry I kindly urge her not to be, like she’s not

By Vic Gerami Dan Reynolds is best known for being the lead singer and frontman of the Grammy award, American Music Awards and Billboard Music Awards-winning band, Imagine Dragons. The list of awards and accolades bestowed on Imagine Dragons and Reynolds is too long to note; he is also the recipient of the Songwriters Hall

| Amy Poehler and Rachel Dratch talk gay wine buddies, LGBTQ fans and Amy’s ‘soft butch’ style By Chris Azzopardi Amy Poehler and Rachel Dratch are as thrilled as I am over Netflix’s meta itinerary for journalists like myself who have landed in Napa Valley, California to cover their new heavyontheimbibing dramedy, Wine Country. Appropriately,

| Returning with The Medicine Show, the legendary LGBTQ icon talks inspiration in world crises and her new ‘totally fueled by cannabis’ album By Chris Azzopardi 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

By Randall Jobe Terry Barber, international opera singer and Grammy nominee who performs the music of Freddie Mercury in the upcoming performance, Mercury, coming to Houston’s Arena Theatre for one show only on May 10, exudes enthusiasm and knowledge of his subject. His research took him through five biographies in the attempt to fully understand