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Chris Azzopardi

Chris Azzopardi

Chris Azzopardi is the Executive Editor and Brand Director of Pride Source Media Group and Q Syndicate, the national LGBTQ+ wire service. He has interviewed a multitude of superstars, including Cher, Meryl Streep, Mariah Carey and Beyoncé. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, GQ and Billboard. 

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Features

Chris Salvatore on Why He Left OnlyFans, Hateful DMs and His Return to Acting in ‘Scorch Marks’

Chris Salvatore is hiding in his bathroom. It’s the only room in the house without carpet, and the flooring guy is measuring all the others.The flooring is the simple part of his week. Days earlier, an interview with Out meant to promote his new [...]

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Features

Orville Peck Talks ‘Street Fighter’ Villain Vega, His Butt and the Raw Sobriety Songs on ‘Mule’

Orville Peck would like you to look at his butt. For the art.“I told the director from the start, ‘I think we really should show off the butt,’” says Peck, who squatted his way into Vega’s matador tights for “Street Fighter,” the new live-action take [...]

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Music

The Chicks Were Never Ready to Make Nice. Neither Were Their Queer Fans.

Some albums you listen to. Others you live inside, especially if you're a gay person who has ever been told, in one way or another, to shut up and sing — or, rather, to stay in the closet. "Taking the Long Way" was the second kind for [...]

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Kal Penn Has Never Paid for a Drink at a Lesbian Bar

We know him as Kumar in the “Harold & Kumar” movies, but Kal Penn has spent the past two decades happily refusing to stay in one lane. He left acting for a stint in the Obama administration, returned to Hollywood and, in 2021, wrote “You Can’t Be [...]

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Music

Remembering Dolly Parton and Her LGBTQ+ Allyship: ‘Why Wouldn't I Stand Up for Everybody?'

Here's the thing nobody's obituary is going to lead with, so I will: Dolly Parton picked up the phone for queer press. Not just the glossies with the biggest circulation — she talked to a small LGBTQ+ paper out of Michigan, the one I write [...]

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Music

For 30 Years, Linda Perry Wrote Everyone Else's Truth. Now She's Telling Her Own.

Linda Perry has spent most of her career behind the curtain — and she's built an empire there. She wrote "Beautiful" and handed it to Christina Aguilera. She has worked with Gwen Stefani, Alicia Keys, Miley Cyrus, Adele — one hit after [...]

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Pride

Plant Kween Christopher Griffin Is Here to Remind You to Water Yourself

If your social feed has ever stopped you mid-scroll because a monstera looked like it’s been better-tended than you have, you've probably already found Christopher Griffin — known to their 800,000-strong plant-loving community as Plant [...]

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Parenting

Joseph Osmundson’s ‘Spawning Season’ Asks: How Do You Grieve What Never Was?

How do you define “child” when you're a queer boy who can't carry one but wants to anyways? Growing up, Joseph Osmundson loved the women in his life (“mothers are a poppy seed cake, a lemon drizzle; fathers catch and release”) so much he [...]

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Lansing

Gretchen Whitmer Is Leaving Office in 2027. She's Not Leaving the Fight. Here's What She Wants You to Know.

She walked into the room in a rainbow sweater her gay daughter refused to keep, and immediately started dressing her dogs in Pride accessories for the photo shoot. If you needed a single image to capture who Gretchen Whitmer is as an ally, that might [...]

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Entertainment

Tori Amos on Provincetown Bears, Microdosing and Becoming Immortalized by Subreddits

I've talked to Tori Amos enough times now that I no longer blink when the conversation drifts to witches, demons, fairies or the slow-motion collapse of democracy — often within the same sentence. Her 18th album, “In Times of Dragons,” is no [...]

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Film

Sundance Rejected It. Audiences Didn't. Kieron Moore on Why ‘Blue Film’ Is Finding Its Own Way.

For queer audiences who know what it means to feel unseen, British actor Kieron Moore’s performance in “Blue Film” offers a rare kind of recognition: a character who isn’t reduced to his wounds, his sexuality or his mistakes, but allowed to be fully [...]

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Theater

When They Go Low, Gay Culture Goes Gayer: Ginger Minj on ‘Stop! That! Train!’

Fresh off her "RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 10" victory, Ginger Minj is helping steer queer culture’s latest act of resistance in the wildly campy disaster-comedy "Stop! That! Train!"Arriving in theaters during Pride Month, the [...]

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Features

St. Vincent Has Always Been This Gay: 'It's Been a Dance of a Lifetime'

St. Vincent, whose real name is Annie Clark, had just come from a Barry’s Bootcamp class in West Hollywood when we got on the phone — she offered this immediately, unprompted, clocking that she was talking to an LGBTQ+ publication. “It’s spot on,” [...]

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Hold the Line: Designer Bill Ferenc on How His Cover Art Meets the Moment

Pride Source's Between The Lines, the longest-running LGBTQ+ print publication in Michigan, is thrilled to feature the cover art for our June 4 issue by Bill Ferenc, a Detroit illustrator, the art director at The Black Sheep Agency and one of [...]

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Kesha Talks Pride, Queerness, Being 'Horny for Life' and Why The Freedom Tour Is for Us

Kesha has always made music for the ones who don't quite fit — the glitter-covered misfits, the too-loud, the still-figuring-it-out. You know, the animals, as she calls them.So it feels like more than coincidence that she's rolling into [...]

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Politics

Gretchen Whitmer Reflects on Her LGBTQ+ Legacy (So Far) and the Gay Daughter Who Shaped It

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer isn't just a regular mom — she's a cool mom. She'll tell you herself. Or rather, her outfit will. She strides into the living room of her Lansing residence in all black, a rainbow lightning bolt off one shoulder, [...]

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Queer Icon

After Everything, Melissa Etheridge Is Still Rising

It doesn't take long for Melissa Etheridge to feel like an old friend. Seconds into our latest conversation, she's already asking what I think of her new album, "Rise" — her first in seven years — and within moments we're [...]

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Wedding

Queer Wedding Movies: A New Era of Gay Wedding Joy on Screen

For a long time, wedding movies stuck to a familiar formula — big feelings, bigger meltdowns and a final walk down the aisle that only counted if the love at the center fit a very straight mold. Queer stories, when they appeared, were often about [...]

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Wedding

How Kristen Griffith-VanderYacht Is Encouraging LGBTQ+ Couples to Go Big With Wedding Florals

Kristen Griffith-VanderYacht knows what holds LGBTQ+ couples back from their wildest floral dreams — and he’s here to tell them they don’t have to. The internationally lauded floral designer, named one of Harper’s Bazaar’s top florists, has made a [...]

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Theater

Jessie Ware Talks Queer Fantasy of ‘Superbloom,’ LGBTQ+ Fans and the Joy of Wigs

For three albums, Jessie Ware has offered an escape hatch: a shimmering, 1970s-inspired fantasy, far removed from the world we live in. But with “Superbloom,” the likely closing chapter of a trilogy, Ware tries something trickier: She’s letting real [...]

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Boys Don’t Dance? Watch Michael Novak Do It Anyway

Just before Michael Novak, the artistic director of the Paul Taylor Dance Company, spoke at a late-March talk and screening of “Dancemaker,” the 1998 documentary about Taylor’s early career as a choreographer, he’s seated in a quiet corner at 215 [...]

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Jonathan Adler on How AIDS Survival Informs His Work and the Truth Behind His Exuberant Empire

In Jonathan Adler’s world, there's a giant Lucite mushroom glowing somewhere in the corner — a symbol, perhaps, of what he calls his current state: “I'm living in a trippy glam-rock fantasy.”It's a fitting, though perhaps unlikely [...]

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Crying at a Biker Orgy: The Tender and Kinky Queer Story of ‘Pillion’

In the A24 film “Pillion,” kink is neither punchline nor provocation. Instead, writer-director Harry Lighton and stars Alexander Skarsgård of “True Blood” and Harry Melling, the English actor who played Dudley Dursley in the “Harry Potter” films, [...]

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Zarna Garg Didn’t Grow Up With Queer Visibility. Now She’s Helping Parents Embrace It.

Zarna Garg doesn’t fit the traditional mold of a queer activist — and that’s precisely why she matters right now. She’s a straight ally, a mother, a middle-aged Indian woman who grew up with zero exposure to queer life, and now she’s become something [...]

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Royal Oak

Kathy Griffin on Leading ‘F--- ICE’ Chants, Surviving Trump and Her ‘New Face, New Tour’

On camera from her Malibu home, Kathy Griffin looks harmless, even friendly. But I'm not Gary Busey, Mel Gibson, Larry Ellison or Sean Penn, who are among Griffin's neighbors — the people, she says, she might run into in aisle 9. “I'm [...]

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Features

How Kevin Williamson’s Queer Identity Shapes the ‘Scream’ Franchise, From Stu to Sidney

Kevin Williamson knows fear. He’s been shaping it, scripting it and watching it slice through movie theaters for 30 years. But with “Scream 7,” he’s doing something new: directing it himself. For the first time, he’s revisiting the world he helped [...]

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Grand Rapids

Trans TikToker Zaya Perysian on Suing Trump, Michigan Roots and Why Visibility Matters

At 23, Zaya Perysian has brand deals, 5 million TikTok followers and an active lawsuit against the president of the United States. The West Michigan native is suing the Trump administration over her passport’s gender marker — a fight that grew out of [...]

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Books

From Fear to Freedom: Da Brat and Jesseca ‘Judy’ Harris-Dupart on Coming Out and Hidden Baggage

Six years after Da Brat came out publicly in 2020 — a move that felt both terrifying and inevitable — the Grammy-nominated, Chicago-born rapper and her wife, entrepreneur Jesseca “Judy” Harris-Dupart, are ready to tell their story. And they're [...]

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Michigan

At Norm’s Diner, a Lesbian-Owned Detroit Spot, Breakfast Is About Belonging

When Elise Gallant and Danielle Norman opened their restaurant in October 2024 in Detroit’s West Village, they were ready to take their romantic relationship to the next level — restaurant co-ownership. Norm’s Diner quickly became more than just the [...]

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Entertainment

Niecy Nash-Betts on ‘All’s Fair,’ Being L.A.’s ‘Mayor of Queerville’ and the Irony of Interviewing Her in a Closet

If there’s one thing Niecy Nash-Betts knows how to do, it’s turn a moment into a metaphor. So it feels almost too perfect — borderline sitcom-ironic — that before our conversation even begins, I realize she’s literally sitting in a closet. Because if [...]

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Features

‘These Bitches Just Go For It’: Amanda Seyfried on Camp, Chaos and Queer Energy in ‘The Housemaid’

Chaos, camp and unrestrained power crash through every melodramatic note — and every broken dish — in “The Housemaid." In the film, out Dec. 19, Amanda Seyfried — beloved by queer audiences for “Mean Girls,” “Mamma Mia!” and “Jennifer’s Body” — [...]

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New Ferndale Gallery Opens Its Doors as a Hub for LGBTQ+ Creativity

On a recent afternoon at the Tacon-Heaslip Gallery, the only thing doing the talking — aside from queer artist and founder Jarrad Tacon-Heaslip — is the art. Just days ago, on Nov. 15, the 4,100-square-foot gallery buzzed with the grand opening crowd [...]

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Features

Is Black Art Inherently Political? Davóne Tines Has Thoughts

In an era marked by backsliding on human and civil rights, any artistic work that centers marginalized voices can feel inherently political simply by existing. Detroit Opera's “Highways and Valleys — Two American Love Stories” is one such work, [...]

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Antoni Porowski Wants You to Talk About Sex — and PrEP — Like You Talk About Food

For Antoni Porowski, conversations about self-care aren’t complete without talking about sex. The “Queer Eye” food-and-wellness expert — who's helped audiences around the world nourish their bodies and minds through vulnerability and a really [...]

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Ann Arbor

Inside Antoni Porowski’s Sexy Food Fantasy with His Michigan Boyfriend

Since 2018, Antoni Porowski has made food look downright seductive — a drizzle of olive oil here, a slow stir there. But these days, the “Queer Eye” food-and-wine expert says his idea of a “sexy food fantasy” has evolved.“At this stage of life that [...]

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Katy O’Brian Is the Queer Action Star We’ve Been Waiting For

Katy O’Brian has tackled lesbian neo-noir and gone full-throttle action, sharing the screen with Tom Cruise in “Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning” earlier this year. Soon, she’ll appear in two of the year’s most anticipated films: “Christy,” [...]