Robert Cornelius
Shining Star: an interview with Robert Cornelius of Poi Dog Pondering
“I was raised on House music from the start. I went to high school with Steve Hurley.”
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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.”
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.”
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.”