GoPride Chicago
Conversations with the people shaping arts, culture and community life.
Betty Who
“I am really proud of everything I am doing right now. I feel very grown up, which is strange to say.”
Shana Feste
“I am constantly hoping my son is gay.”
Seth Rudetsky
“I feel like my part is babbling about my private life!”
Laurence Luckinbill
“there was a big ta-do over the kiss. ...It was the first gay film and they wanted the first on screen kiss between two men”
Brryce Fersher
“I am very fortunate to work in a gay bar in a big city surrounded by amazing queer people, but there are many people who are not thatDJ Brryce Fersher talks Pride in Chicago, coming out and turning 28”
Jessica Sanchez
“We need more love and more acceptance. I’m a full supporter of the LGBT community.”
DJ Joe Gauthreaux
“Chicago is always one of my favorite cities, because I feel like we understand each other musically.”
Carlito Olivero
“ If you love it, you can do it.”
Belinda Carlisle
“The LGBT community has been a big support from the very beginning.”
Leonardo Nam
“I am a mega fan too so it is great to share this with everyone.”
J'Royce Jata
“Stay open, trust yourself and stay open to working with other people”
Allie X
“I feel I have the taste of a gay man!”
Noah Kahan
“I want people to know that I’m always going to be honest to myself.”
Yetide Badaki
“It should no longer be groundbreaking because it should just be the norm, but I am happy that it’s happening now.”
Jordan Liberty
“I realized you can be anyone you want to be on the Internet.”
ALMA
“I think everywhere I go more than 80% of my fans are gay”
John Barsoian
“a young woman kind of creating her own happy ending, versus the traditional fairy tale...”
Jay Chandrasekhar
“I think all of the other Broken Lizard guys should do full frontal nudity in part three.”
Kate Nash
“Making art is an amazing thing to do, so if anyone sucks the life out of it I want to remove them from my life.”
Nick Cannon
“Me personally I am putting my money where my mouth is in many different facets.”
Tom Lenk
“Back then I wanted to have access to all types of characters so I could play straight or gay”
Danny Burgos
“We played [Beauty & the Beast] at the Cadillac Palace as well and I really love Chicago. It has a really special place in my heart.”
Jerry Mitchell
“It's about finding those moments in the film that I think deserve song and deserve to be told in a theatrical way that's different from the film”
Montego Glover
“I don’t see my feet for three hours!”