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Mister Rogers's Gay, Black Friend François Clemmons Wears Tiaras Now

Mister Rogers's Gay, Black Friend François Clemmons Wears Tiaras Now

Vanity Fair — François Clemmons couldn't practice everything Mr. Rogers preached. True, Clemmons became one of the first African-Americans with a recurring role on a kids' TV series in 1968, when he joined Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. As Officer Clemmons, the trained opera singer charmed children and found refuge in the show's driving force, his friend- our friend-Fred Rogers.
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Viola Davis Talks Journey to LGBTQ Acceptance, Finding Her Power & Why Her Favorite Role Was As a...

Viola Davis Talks Journey to LGBTQ Acceptance, Finding Her Power & Why Her Favorite Role Was As a...

Pride Source — Viola Davis taps my hand when she really means what she says. Each time the actress reaches over to make contact, the big bar in the big skyscraper in big Chicago where we are sitting diminishes. She has a way of making any space feel intimate.
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Marc Cherry on 'Why Women Kill,' 'Golden Girls' and Felicity Huffman

Marc Cherry on 'Why Women Kill,' 'Golden Girls' and Felicity Huffman

The New York Times — The "Desperate Housewives" creator returns to TV with another female-led series, this time on CBS All Access. The new dark dramedy "Why Women Kill" has a lot going on: open marriage, bisexuality, adultery, a closeted spouse, an overdose, a front-yard brawl, a choking incident involving meatloaf, shoulder pads.
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Opinion | I Love You (But Do You Love Mariah Carey?)

Opinion | I Love You (But Do You Love Mariah Carey?)

The New York Times — How I learned to accept that my dreamlover probably won't adore the pop diva as much as I do. By Mr. Azzopardi is a journalist. No man I've loved has loved Mariah Carey as much as me. Even my best efforts to convert the most rigid nonbelievers - apparently, they exist - have proved futile.
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Power in Transparency

Power in Transparency

POZ — Mykki Blanco couldn't find a place to hide their HIV medications. Having just wrapped a tour, the performance artist turned experimental rapper, who uses they/them pronouns, was hosting an after-party in a hotel suite at the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles.
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6 Movies That Take Place in a Single Location (Mostly)

6 Movies That Take Place in a Single Location (Mostly)

The New York Times — With the release of "7500" on Amazon Prime Video, here's a look at a handful of films that create dramatic tension in one space (or outer space). As we emerge from state-ordered quarantine, consider this: In movies, a locked-down set is often an artistic choice (or sometimes the result of a strapped budget).
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I Am 35 and I Am Not Your Daddy

I Am 35 and I Am Not Your Daddy

GQ — When Chris Azzopardi got an unwelcome label on Tinder last month, it sent him into a (well-earned) spiral. I don't know when exactly I went from twink to "daddy." Life happens so fast, and then suddenly you're 35 and you have a Tom of Finland stache and 20-year-olds who couldn't get enough of Call Me by Your Name want you to be their Armie Hammer.
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Billy Porter Talks Hollywood ('I Crashed the Party'), His Black Gay Experience & Upcoming Memoir ...

Billy Porter Talks Hollywood ('I Crashed the Party'), His Black Gay Experience & Upcoming Memoir ...

Pride Source — "Now that I have a massive platform, and now that the people want to listen to the Black sissy, I'm gonna talk," Billy Porter says, fired up, leaning into the camera. On Zoom, Porter commands a computer screen like he does a red carpet.
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Antonio Banderas Reflects on 'Genius' and What Salma Hayek Told Him About Harvey Weinstein (Exclu...

Antonio Banderas Reflects on 'Genius' and What Salma Hayek Told Him About Harvey Weinstein (Exclu...

Entertainment Tonight — Antonio Banderas was in New York City when his TV addiction started. He was performing in the 2003 Broadway revival of Nine and his demanding lead role made him "totally paranoid about preserving my vocal cords."
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10 Years Later: Katy Perry's Queer Touchstone 'I Kissed a Girl' Opened the Door For Sexual Fluidi...

10 Years Later: Katy Perry's Queer Touchstone 'I Kissed a Girl' Opened the Door For Sexual Fluidi...

Billboard — For queer kids - and Katy Perry - the only lip balm worth noting from 2008 was cherry flavored. That year, cherry ChapStick symbolized and sensualized bisexuality in a titillating and revolutionary way, as Perry, "so brave, drink in hand," detailed her fleeting, fruity lip-lock with a girl for a mainstream audience.
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Why Hedwig and the Angry Inch Still Sings-And Blows Bohemian Rhapsody Away

Why Hedwig and the Angry Inch Still Sings-And Blows Bohemian Rhapsody Away

Vanity Fair — "Everyone knew Bohemian Rhapsody was gonna suck. Why did they go see it? I don't get it," laughs John Cameron Mitchell as his classic queer film gets a new Criterion release. "In a way we had to do a fictional [story] to avoid the clichés that real people fall into."
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Diane Keaton Talks Gay Following She Never Knew She Had, Lesbian Roles ('I'm Available') & 'First...

Diane Keaton Talks Gay Following She Never Knew She Had, Lesbian Roles ('I'm Available') & 'First...

Pride Source — Diane Keaton doesn't have all the answers to all the questions and she's sorry about that. She's sorry a lot. So sorry I kindly urge her not to be, like she's not Diane Keaton but a familiar friend, her fizzy, giddy, no-pretense charm making it easy to be honest with her.
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Elaine Stritch: The Lady Who Lives For Tomorrow

Elaine Stritch: The Lady Who Lives For Tomorrow

Pride Source —
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Q&A: Cher on Knowing When She Was a Gay Icon, 'Hope' Gleaned from LGBT Community & 'Breadcrumbs' ...

Q&A: Cher on Knowing When She Was a Gay Icon, 'Hope' Gleaned from LGBT Community & 'Breadcrumbs' ...

Pride Source — Cher is so low-key about being Cher that calling her is like calling your mom. "Hi," she purrs with signature simplicity when I phone her presidential suite in late August. We are speaking matter-of-factly about gay things, political things, Twitter things ("I'm finished with the emojis that we have").
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How Being (Hot) Gay Insta-Boyfriends Makes You Money

How Being (Hot) Gay Insta-Boyfriends Makes You Money

GQ — Many other LGBTQ couples are reaping the bountiful benefits of a more diversified IG ad market, as well: world-travelers @coupleofmen recently explored Vienna and the Austrian capital's bathtubs thanks to posh accommodations; newlyweds @paulheartsergio partnered with Swarovski; and just imagine all the sexy apparel @rick_and_the_griffopotamus', ahem... assets have garnered them.
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Writing Her Own Way

Writing Her Own Way

Eastern Magazine — EMU alumna Ayanna Floyd Davis proclaimed herself a Hollywood writer. Then she became one.
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Diane Keaton Talks Gay Following She Never Knew She Had, Lesbian Roles ('I'm Available') & 'First...

Diane Keaton Talks Gay Following She Never Knew She Had, Lesbian Roles ('I'm Available') & 'First...

Pride Source — Diane Keaton doesn't have all the answers to all the questions and she's sorry about that. She's sorry a lot. So sorry I kindly urge her not to be, like she's not Diane Keaton but a familiar friend, her fizzy, giddy, no-pretense charm making it easy to be honest with her.
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Christeene Wants You To Wreck All These "Old F*cking Crusty Men Who Have This Power"

Christeene Wants You To Wreck All These "Old F*cking Crusty Men Who Have This Power"

NewNowNext — It's Christeene versus this mad white man's world on Basura, the raunchy artist's latest musical annihilation of heteronormative convention. First single "Butt Muscle" tore into glam-sex standards with a dirty bathhouse-bass throb and the video's blatant rawness. Furry asses jiggle, get fisted, and ride giant ponytails, so take that, Trump.
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Q&A: Adam Rippon on Finding His Gay Power, What Inspires His Costume Design ('Sex Stuff') & His P...

Q&A: Adam Rippon on Finding His Gay Power, What Inspires His Costume Design ('Sex Stuff') & His P...

Pride Source — "Yes, this is an interview," a schoolgirl-giggly Adam Rippon deadpans to fellow figure skater Charlie White who, naturally, is curious about the current topic of conversation: sex and harnesses, and how both come together to inspire his uniquely nontraditional collection of on-ice ensembles.
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Is He Gay, or Just Networking?

Is He Gay, or Just Networking?

GQ — "You don't know who Meryl Streep is?" I was shook. This was some kind of cruel joke, I thought. Because this guy was a human being from the planet Earth, and human beings from the planet Earth must have even the most vague sense that Meryl Streep is a damn national treasure.
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Q&A: Melissa McCarthy on How She Got Her Drag Name, First Time in a Gay Bar & Emulating Lesbians

Q&A: Melissa McCarthy on How She Got Her Drag Name, First Time in a Gay Bar & Emulating Lesbians

Pride Source — Melissa McCarthy knows her way around a woman who doesn't care what other people think. This is the foundation on which her bawdy and vanity-free slapstick characters are created. Anti-feminine hornball Megan in "Bridesmaids" dialed up dude-level crass and free-wheeling sexuality (and earned her an Oscar nomination).
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Garrett Hedlund, a Braver and Freer Actor (Exclusive)

Garrett Hedlund, a Braver and Freer Actor (Exclusive)

Entertainment Tonight — Garrett Hedlund is contemplating his hair color: once sandy blond, as a model for L.L. Bean and Teen magazine, now, 15 years into his acting career, a deep brown. As the hair has darkened, so have the roles. "The towhead in me is quickly vanishing," he jokes to ET.
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Q&A: Martha Stewart Talks '1860s' Approach to Equality, LGBT Weddings, How Gays 'Step Up Their Ga...

Q&A: Martha Stewart Talks '1860s' Approach to Equality, LGBT Weddings, How Gays 'Step Up Their Ga...

Pride Source — You don't have to tell Martha Stewart that gay men love her like their own mother. The influential entrepreneur and domestic diva's deep-rooted connection to the LGBTQ community goes beyond special appearances on "Ugly Betty" and "Ellen," when she appeared as herself in a 1995 episode of the groundbreaking sitcom.
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Singing For Our Lives: Brandi Carlile Instills Power in the Powerless With Career-Best LP

Singing For Our Lives: Brandi Carlile Instills Power in the Powerless With Career-Best LP

Pride Source — Brandi Carlile knew the kid from somewhere. She'd seen him before - not this particular one, but others like him.
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