GoPride Chicago
Conversations with the people shaping arts, culture and community life.
Jamie Lambert
“Collabro are really big LGBT supporters. We absolutely love the LGBT community. Musical theater, you know [laughs].”
Jessica Hopper
“Millennials have much more progressive attitudes about gender and sexuality and identity than any of us did even a decade ago.”
Josh Thomas
“We take bits and pieces and muddle them around with fiction.”
Alicia Vikander
Actress Alicia Vikander talks about her role in The Danish Girl
Matthew Rettenmund
“I was obsessed with Madonna and Cyndi Lauper and all these `80s people.”
Lyric Benson Fergusson
“I grew up with two amazing gay men who I considered my uncles.”
Margaret Cho
“If you are queer woman of color it is even more threatening”
Buddy Nielsen
“I listen to a lot of country. I think that would be pretty surprising.”
Anthony de Mare
“I think he’s one of the greatest lyricists we’ve ever had. One of the greatest poets we’ve ever had.”
Frankie Nardiello
“I used to go to The Baton to see drag.”
Robert Cornelius
“I was raised on House music from the start. I went to high school with Steve Hurley.”
Los Horoscopos de Durango
“I just got married in June and half of my groomsmen were gay”
Michelle Visage
“When you pour your heart and soul into something it feels like you are giving birth”
Jinx Titanic
“If Jinx Titanic does anything - he smokes cigars on stage”
Darlene Love
“I’m like every other female artist – Tina Turner, Gladys Knight, Patti Labelle – we have such a large gay fan-base.”
Patricia Velasquez
“I’m an Aquarius. One of the things about people born under the sign of Aquarius is that we live for our friends.”
Thomas Bezucha
“Like a lot of gay guys, I was in love with a straight guy when I was in high school.”
Jarrett Neal
“For a long time, many issues concerning black gay men had been tugging at me, things I had observed and experienced.”
Don Omar
“love to be a competitor and see this business as a competition.”
Roland Emmerich
“The amount of controversy, based on a trailer, when nobody had seen the film, was strange and funny to me. But what can you do?”
Jade Starling
“I don’t know what I would do without my gay fans.”
Sheppard
“If the gay and lesbian community is into us then that is amazing. We are all for it.”
Josh Groban
“I’ve been aware of my gay fans since album one. There has been such great support from that community and it has gone both ways.”