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”
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.”
Don Omar
“love to be a competitor and see this business as a competition.”
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.”
Scott Free
“I was a band geek. I was in the pit playing trumpet for all the high school musical productions.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
Tom Goss
“I'm not very good at pretending to be someone I'm not. I'm an overly earnest and honest Midwesterner.”
Ani DiFranco
“I feel like I will be diversifying it from my angle. Not so queer anymore, but definitely a woman centered woman and just a human rights centered artist.”
Rich White Ladies
“We would rather be in gay bars all over the world than enything else.”
Margaret Cho
“It’s a show of all-new material. I’m really proud of it. It’s a call to action.”
Emily Kinney
“If I were doing The Walking Dead I wouldn't be able to do 31 cities this next month and a half!”