Interviews and voices
Music interviews from GoPride's conversations with artists, creators and community voices.
Elaine Dame
“Making music has meditative and restorative qualities for me, hopefully for the audience as well.”
A. J. Jackson
“Music is a mystery inside our bodies that no one really understands.”
John Gardiner
“it puts you in that perfect mindset for how this odd little period of time in the mid '70's of like where there were just no rules”
Ezra Potash
“We did two songs with RuPaul, one for Drag Race UK and one for the upcoming season of RuPaul's Drag Race.”
Mariah Rose Faith
“there is a learning experience I want kids and even adults to have and how these words aren't ok and they matter”
Rob Lindley
“what I was most struck with in seeing it - and maybe it is the filter we are all seeing art in in this time we are living in - I really find it a show about empathy and compassion”
Elaine Dame
“70's music is rich melodically, harmonically and rhythmically, which lends itself well to a jazz interpretation.”
Pedro Capo
“A lot of mind blowing things have been happening this past year.”
Rachel Platten
“We are all the same.”
Yung Gravy
“I want to be able to walk around and have dinner with my mom without being mobbed.”
Veronica Witkin
“We hope to keep doing what we are doing and touring as much as possible.”
Conan Gray
“If it wasn’t for music I don’t know what I would have done.”
Dorothy Clark
“I thought maybe I was just straight and had crushes on girls.”
Dan Griffith
“I’ve got nothing but love for the LGBT community.”
Inara George
“It’s hard to talk about the politics of this country right now.”
Max Frost
“I think my career will always be about the live show as much as the records that I make.”
Andrew Fedyk
“As long as you make music that you genuinely feel special about, then it doesn’t matter what the outcome is.”
Mike Peters
“People are free to be who they are and be with the people they love.”
UPSAHL
“For me, sexuality is very fluid and people should support it.”
David Cromer
“I hope this interview about my terror will inspire people to come see the show”
Judah Akers
“I think that was the first time I had ever been spanked!”
MAX
“We just did a Pride in Grand Rapids that is one of my favorite shows I’ve ever done.”