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The Empire That Drag Built

Fueled by the success of RuPaul’s Drag Race, Party Monster, and a string of edgy hits, World of Wonder is bringing the raucous spirit of Andy Warhol’s Factory to Hollywood. RuPaul’s bejeweled crown and scepter are locked safely behind a chain-link fence in the bunker-like basement of World of Won...

Moonlight Star Ashton Sanders’ Flight to Fame

Robbie Imes chats with the breakout star of the year’s indie game-changer Moonlight This award season, Ashton Sanders is the actor whose life is most closely imitating art: his role as a boy on the brink has brought him to the cusp of stardom. In the celebrated film Moonlight, Sanders stars as Ch...

Feast Your Eyes on These Sumptuous Restaurant Interiors

Restaurants from Taipei to Toronto are raising the bar on creating spectacular experiences. Here are five of our favorites: Le Roch Hotel Paris Paris’s first arrondissement is home to the Roch Hotel, featuring one of the most exquisitely designed dining r...

Alan Cumming Talks About His Abusive Father, Bisexuality, Monogamy and Why He Doesn’t Want Children.

Alan Cumming not only is multi talented but also has become rather brilliant at multitasking. His versatility demands it. Who else could star in a critically acclaimed one-man production of Macbeth as well as furnish the voice of Chuck Masters, a paralyzed HIV-positive man, on Logo’s sto...

Meet Hamilton’s Thomas Jefferson: Daveed Diggs.

By Leilani Marie Labong Judging from my Spotify playlists, densely populated with Broadway’s greatest hits, you’d never know that many moons ago, at another beloved publication, I was unofficially known as the “hip-hop editor.” Mere breaths after singing Mary Magdalene’s “I Don’t Know How to Love...

Nico Tortorella Comes Out

Younger heartthrob Nico Tortorella is no stranger to bearing it all (just jump on over to his Instagram account @nicotortorella and see for yourself). Here the actor speaks with FourTwoNine about his acting roots, shares his thoughts on love and relationships, opens up about his recent sobriety a...

Pro-Skateboarder Brian Anderson is Flipping the Script on What It Means to Be Gay

Pro-skating legend Brian Anderson came out last September, the latest bold step in a career marked by ugly struggles and giddy victories. Now, he talks about why he went public, the response from his fellow skaters, and what he does when he’s not shredding on the ramps. For many of us—and by tha...

An interview with Dave Franco on his relationship with the LGBT community

Dave Franco stars in a new movie about love and zombies next month. The 27-year-old brother of James Franco, Dave discusses his acting career, his gay following and his famous brother in an exclusive interview with Pride Source. Due to be released in February, Dave fights zombies in the comedic...

Guillermo Díaz : More Puck than Huck

Guillermo Díaz is infinitely likable, even while face-licking and teeth-pulling his way through a torture scene as Huck, the CIA-trained psychopath on the television show Scandal. It is a quality that has been apparent since the early days of Díaz’s acting career, when he was living in the Wash...

Shunned By Peers, Fat Gay Men Create Their Own Culture

Growing up in San Diego, Dan Oliverio was confused by his desires: he wasn’t attracted to the boys he was supposed to find attractive. At age 23, he dated a dancer “with a beautiful body,” but the sex was passionless. “He told me, at one point, I had sex like a closeted husband has sex with his w...

Trevor Noah Has The Last Laugh

We love Trevor Noah. Last Spring, we featured Trevor on our Spring cover, and featured him in the attached story. Yesterday, Trevor Noah put out that he’d like Sean Hannity to admit that he was wrong about the GOP memo. And to eat a pile of horse poop. “The Daily Show” host turned his a...

The Secretary of the Interior

How one sharp-eyed beach bum learned to channel California warmth into A-list interiors Photographed by Brian Kaminski | Styled by Alison Brooks Sperm have different shapes that affect how they do their job,” says interior designer Cliff Fong. He’s sitting in Galerie Half, the vin...

The Wizards of Odd

Fueled by the success of RuPaul’s Drag Race and a string of edgy hits, World of Wonder has brought the raucous spirit of Andy Warhol’s Factory to Hollywood

Edith Windsor, Whose Case Struck Down DOMA, Dies at 88

More people can love each other without shame today because of her

Rostam Rocks the Gay Indie Rock Kabash

Vampire Weekend’s Ivy League–educated Rostam goes solo, putting all that learning to good use

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