GoPride Chicago
Conversations with the people shaping arts, culture and community life.
Kristian Nairn
“I get very emotionally involved with the tracks I’m playing. It’s like having a megaphone on what you’re feeling yourself.”
Scott Free
“I was a band geek. I was in the pit playing trumpet for all the high school musical productions.”
Rebecca Makkai
“I keep joking that I’m a reincarnated gay man from the 1920s.”
Morgan Neville
“Vidal and Buckley had this unique relationship with each other where it wasn’t just about the ideas of the other. It was like they saw in the other person somebody who was dangerous.”
Jack & Jack
“Don't let stuff get you down is the main message”
Eleni Mandell
“There is a very lovely lesbian couple in Chicago that has come out to see me many times over the years. I’m always disappointed if they aren’t there.”
Rickie Lee Jones
“When I take a walk around the block, I hear people practicing the trombone.”
Shoshana Bean
“I look at C.C. Bloom and there is a lot of Barbra in her.”
Adam Guerino
“I'm always surprised and humbled by how far the show has come already.”
Colman Domingo
“It’s interesting to do something that you’re a little afraid of sometimes. There are some very sensual scenes in there. I’ve never portrayed that on film.”
Sean Baker
“I was conscious of riding that line, telling a story that was at one moment funny and the next moment dramatic, and sometimes a combination of both at the same time.”
Amy Ray
“Often when we’re somewhere, that place is informing our writing. I think the idea of movement, the constant propulsion through time and space, really does inspire.”
Anne Burrell
“I think people need more to do in their life if my hair pisses them off”
Steve Orlando
“We are looking to give a sort of icon to the queer community. It’s vitally important that he’s a gay man in the book. I can’t discount that.”
DJ Alex Acosta
“It's going to be one of those parties that will stay in people's head and memories for a long time!”
M. Night Shyamalan
“The casting gods have to be with you.”
Cazwell
“I feel like the times I’ve played in Chicago that people genuinely like me.”
Estelle
“We don’t stand around, “Look at me singing at you.” We have a party and I mean everybody.”
Dawn Oberg
“My fondest wish it to make rock-star money so that I can buy a building for my friends to live in so that we can still have a community.”
Sandy King Carpenter
“We really wanted to make a comic book that comic people loved not just fans following us from the movies.”
Tom Goss
“I'm not very good at pretending to be someone I'm not. I'm an overly earnest and honest Midwesterner.”