| ‘Mary Queen of Scots’ star talks LGBTQ allyship,coming out scenes and naked men in movies By Chris Azzopardi Name a 24-year-old Oscar nominee more qualified to take the throne as a crown-donning, queer-friendly queen than Saoirse Ronan. The  Mary Queen of Scots  star’s own life is rich in queer-adjacent roles and gay besties, and

| Croonertalks plans for LGBTQ youth outreach, teaching his kids to be themselves andhis ‘sexist’Christmascover By Chris Azzopardi “You’re my first. Be gentle with me. Can we start with, like, a foreplay thing where you can just take it easy on me? Some gentle licking perhaps, and then we’ll get into the heavy stuff.” And

| The Girl in the Spider’s Web actress Claire Foy on objecting to a lesbian sex scene and being bi in Unsane By Chris Azzopardi A pansexual man-avenger returns – this time, with English actress Claire Foy sporting the Swedish computer-hacker Lisbeth Salander’s leather gear and trademark dragon tattoo. Based on the novel from David

| Kathy Griffin talks Trump (obviously) – but also, the celeb stories of 2018 we’ve so desperately needed her commentary on By Chris Azzopardi Kathy Griffin’s priorities shifted after, well, you know. The head. More precisely: a gory replica of President Trump’s own head made from a ketchup-dosed Halloween mask that Griffin holds in the

| The sitcom star on the value of ‘Will & Grace’ now and why the show ‘could’ve backfired’ By Chris Azzopardi Eric McCormack auditioned for the role of gay lawyer Will on Will & Grace without realizing the effect he’d have on closeted teenagers. “I was worried about network executives and what the gay community

| Icon talks ‘hope’ gleaned from the LGBTQ community, ‘breadcrumbs’ of her legacy and that time she jumped out a window By Chris Azzopardi | Cher is so low-key about being Cher that calling her is like calling your mom. “Hi,†she purrs with signature simplicity when I phone her presidential suite in late August.

| ‘Colette’ actress on playing bisexual author Colette, making a lesbian sequel to Bend It Like Beckham and her drag-inspired Sugar Plum Fairy By Chris Azzopardi You know what’s to love, actually? How Keira Knightley has now played enough feminist roles to know her character, Juliet, in the bubbly holiday classic Love Actually doesn’t exactly

On Friday, September 14th, 2018 Brilliant Lecture Series presented “A Conversation with Kristin Chenoweth†at the Cullen Performance Hall at the University of Houston. Long-time Houston Public Media host Ernie Manouse interviewed the Emmy and Tony award winning Broadway and TV actress. The conversation topics ranged from her upbringing in Oklahoma as a child of adoption and

‘Love, Simon’ star on her breakout role as a gay-supportive teacher and why the LGBTQ community loves the ladies of Insecure By Chris Azzopardi Oh, sure, actress Natasha Rothwell’s scene-stealing drama teacher in out director Greg Berlanti’s groundbreaking gay teen rom-com Love, Simon is bitter – and therefore, funny as all hell – about overseeing amateur

| The out pop star on his uninhibited second album, finding power in femininity and his journey to empowerment By Chris Azzopardi Nobody is stopping Troye Sivan except for maybe Troye Sivan. No queer-averse label bosses, no identity-stifling pressure to be anything but who he is: the LGBTQ community’s precious paradigm of unapologetic, unicornian queerness.