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The Disruptor: Adam Rippon on His Goals After Olympic Figure Skating | Rolling Stone Magazine/RollingStone.com April 2018
I spent the day with the Olympics’ breakout sweetheart star, talking politics, his lack of shame and how he’s trying to translate his sudden popularity into more than just short-sighted decisions.
Assorted essays at Medium
The First Lady’s First Lady | Out Magazine April 2018
Amy Bloom’s new novel, White Houses, reunites Eleanor Roosevelt with her longtime love, journalist Lorena Hickok, with a sweet, sincere attention to detail that historians have failed to fully realize. I interviewed the National Book Award-nominated author about homophobic academics, superior first ladies and White House sex scandals.
Daniel Handler Wants to Be Your Forever Boy | Out Magazine December 2017
The Lemony Snicket author's new tale of teenage sex is one of many books by mostly straight men that challenge the idea of gay adulthood as the endgame.
My Favorite Scene: ‘ER’ Producer Neal Baer on Fulfilling a Dream to Write for Sally Field | ETonline.com July 29, 2016
In this regular series on ETonline, we ask shows’ creators and writers to talk about their most cherished moment and how it went from script to screen.
Neal Baer, who also worked on China Beach, was the showrunner for 11 seasons on Law & Order: SVU—but I most wanted to talk to him about his time writing and producing on ER. The scene we dove into, from “Rescue Me,” was from a gut-puncher of a Thanksgiving episode about Abby (Maura Tierney) and her bipolar mother, Maggie (played by Sally Field).
Extra backstory: Neal was also the subject of the first magazine Q&A I ever did about a TV show—back in 2000ish, I interviewed him for POZ about ER's major storyline featuring Gloria Reuben as a nurse who is living with HIV. “Meet the man who gave Jeanie Boulet AIDS,” I said then, because it was Baer, one of the only MDs in the writer’s room, who’d argued for the important, and then still controversial, storyline of a health care worker who is HIV positive.
How 'The Americans' Budding Spy Holly Taylor Stole This Season With a Single Word | ETonline.com
June 15, 2016
The Americans, FX's Cold War series starring Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys as Russian spies raising a family undercover in the U.S. during the 1980s, didn't rush Holly Taylor to center stage. But as Paige Jennings grew from a wide-eyed tween to budding second-generation agent, Holly Taylor didn't just see more screen time -- Paige became the central and most compelling storyline on the show. What did she know? Who would she tell? And what side would she pick?
In my work leading ET’s digital content, I rarely have or find the time to do a Q&A myself — but I was far too obsessed with this show and especially Holly to assign this to someone else.
We talked about whether Paige will go full Soviet spy, helping cover up Russell's pregnancy from the cameras, handling Paige's Twitter haters, and how she put the button on the season's most suspenseful episode with a single word.
Pretty much everyone who covered entertainment in the last 15 years has at least one good story about American Idol. Here’s mine.
In 2009, though I’d recently left the staff of OUT, I was so obsessed with this obviously queer guy on Idol that I wrote maybe a dozen blog posts about Adam Lambert for the magazine’s culture blog I’d founded, Popnography.
Spoiler alert: He didn’t win. I almost forgot I was there in person for the finale; his loss to Kris Allen was both completely shocking and not at all surprising. I remember better how I stood outside a restaurant that night telling NPR’s Neda Ulaby why that season was still, on some level, a win for the community.
From the beginning of that Idol season, OUT also pursued an interview with him for the magazine—which finally happened more than four months later. (It was also the week before I got married. The music documentary show I’d left OUT to work on was about to premiere. I will never learn not to try to do everything at once.)
So we sat out on the balcony of the 19 Entertainment offices and talked about an hour. There was nothing I asked that he wasn’t seemingly eager to give his opinion on. That wasn’t really that surprising.
What had been surprising was the way his publicist pulled me aside before we started and cautioned against making the interview “too gay” or, he said, “you know, gay-gay.” It was as baffling then as it is now. I made note of that exchange when filing my story, and my editor wrote a rather angry letter in the issue about the whole mess.
Thousands (millions? it felt like millions) of Glamberts and basically every other professionally employed Idol blogger or commentator condemned OUT and said we were blaming Adam for not being gay enough and that we would probably ruin his career, etc., etc. A lot of angry open letters were written. (I also forgot about those, too, until I went poking through my gmail tonight to see if I could find the interview transcript.) Middle fingers were raised during live performances, pearl-clutching ensued. Time passed. Eventually the magazine and Adam kissed and made up and we all lived gaily ever after.
Here’s something I wrote that November of 2009, in response to all the back and forth:
I’ve seen such striking change in even the last two or three years of how comfortable industry gatekeepers and their clients are in handling such new territory. We’re witnessing a changing of the guard, and it’s bound to overlap a bit in the middle, creating these strange moments where we work with both proudly out stars and their reluctant handlers, sometimes at odds with each other even when they have the same ultimate goals. I’m sorry it happened like this, too. But I’m looking forward to Adam Lambert having a long career, and to him proving every single one of us wrong in one way or another.
On Saturday my wife and I saw one of the last nights of Adam’s stateside tour, which was hands down one of the best, most entertaining and well-staged concerts I’ve ever seen. I spent most of it just leaning over the balcony, staring, smiling, impressed, swept away.
Last year Adam made more money than any other Idol alum, period, beating Carrie Underwood, Chris Daughtry and Kelly Clarkson. That’s largely thanks to his long stint fronting Queen in a worldwide run, and if it means he gets to spend the rest of his career making exactly the music he wants and performing it exactly how he enjoys, I think we all win.
Anyway: if you’ve got that funny Idol nostalgia feeling, you can read my whole long, barely edited interview with Adam from the glory days of 2009 right here.
Troye Sivan’s Brave New World | Out Magazine Cover Story, May 2016
For Out’s annual Power Issue, I talked to @troyesivan about his dreamy debut album, his deeply uncool YouTube years, the never-ending fan feedback loop, and boys, boys, boys.
I also published a very long set of outtakes: Talking Boys with Troye Sivan for 10 Solid Minutes.
Sometimes an interview subject says they don’t want to talk about something and they really don’t want to talk about it. But sometimes they literally mean they don’t want to name names, but anything else is fair game. Troye was not interested in calling out any one suitor in particular, but he was more than happy to talk about relationships at length.
Heart & Soul Man | Out Magazine Cover Story, March 2016
Empire’s breakout star Jussie Smollett carries far more than a hit show on his shoulders—he’s also got the weight of the world to worry about.
“I have so much love inside that it pains me sometimes,” he says. “You end up finding yourself all-consumed by the issues of the world, and that’s something I don’t want to change about myself. So until the love of my life shows up, until I find my boo, I’m just going to be out, up in this piece, a lone ranger.”
We also went behind the scenes of his big moment on Ellen (and after), his response to being told it wasn’t the right time to talk Black Lives Matter, and what he learned from Mariah Carey (everything, of course). Oh, and if you still had any questions about his sexuality, he’s happy to spell it out for you.
Matt McGorry Is Super Serious About One Thing Only: Why Feminism Matters | ETonline.com June 16, 2015
I talked to Orange is the New Black and How to Get Away With Murder’s Matt McGorry about fighting sexism on social media. (He also spilled on his character’s fate on OINTNB.)
How ‘Jagged Little Pill’ Changed Everything & What Alanis Morissette Thinks About It Now | ETonline.com June 11, 2015
I wrote about the album that changed everything for me and almost every other thirtysomething woman I know, on its 20th anniversary of being released—the same week I graduated from high school, suddenly armed with a soundtrack-slash-survival guide to being a girl in the world.
Miley Cyrus Launches Anti-Homelessness, Pro-LGBT ‘Happy Hippie Foundation’ | Out.com May 5, 2015
I interviewed Miley about the launch of her advocacy group. “I’ve experienced fame, and money, and all that shit—and none of it will make you as happy as when you’re actually fighting for something.”
Additional outtakes here.
8 Things Bruce Jenner Said About the Price of Fame, From 1976 to Now | ETonline.com April 24, 2015
Most of my work at ET covering Caitlyn Jenner’s transition was as an editor, guiding and shaping language and story choices through months of public discussion up until Jenner sat down with Diane Sawyer. But along the way I ended up reading and watching and obsessing over every piece of archival material I could find that charted Jenner’s incredibly long and complex relationship with the media. This story was the most tangible result of that research.
I also wrote about the impact of the Sawyer interview.
The Tipping Point | Out Magazine Cover Story, March 2015
A year in the crazy fast lane with How to Get Away With Murder’s It boy, Jack Falahee.
I wrote a little more here about the challenge of interviewing an actor who is determined not to speak specifically about their own sexuality.
And the Columbia Journalism Review also interviewed me for a think-piece on when and how it’s okay to ask if someone is gay—inspired, at least in part, by this story.
Crude Awakening | Out Magazine December 2014/January 2015
Leighton Meester is proud of her contribution to the crass dialogue in the new movie Life Partners, shaped during just a month of rehearsal with its filmmakers and her cast mates. Especially when it involves her insisting she use the word “dick.”
TV Show of the Year: Looking | Out Magazine December 2014/January 2015
I spent a wild night in San Francisco on the set of HBO’s gay dramedy, which was honored in the annual OUT 100 issue.
I also checked back in with them at their Paley Center panel.
The History Behind The Normal Heart: A Tumblr Teach-In April–May 2014
By the time I’d finished working on my outofficial story about Matt Bomer and HBO’s adaptation of The Normal Heart, I’d been convinced—by him and Ryan Murphy especially—that rather than seeing “the Glee generation” as hopelessly uninformed and uninterested in HIV, from current prevention efforts to the epidemic’s earliest history, that they might be especially interested because of this movie to want to learn more, more, more.
That said—as much as I thought it was an amazing adaptation of a very important play, it was all based on a very small part of the story of AIDS, and even a very small part of the story of the early epidemic among gay men in New York City.
One thing I especially love about Tumblr is how good people (aka “kids these days”) are at teaching each other things everybody might not know about history, or just life. There is more enthusiasm to LEARN EVERYTHING RIGHT NOW in online communities like Tumblr than I’ve ever experienced anywhere.
So, in anticipation that at least some of our friends and followers might hear about and have some questions or be interested in a deeper dive into AIDS history, my old friend michelet and I pulled together a Tumblr-based teach-in, kind of a mix of old-school DIY activism and new media strategy.
We wrote some posts, reblogged some of the many other backgrounder pieces done by other media, accepted submissions, and tried to answer as best we could some questions about the AIDS epidemic and its long, important cultural and political impact.
It was an unexpectedly intense and cathartic experiment.
Here are a few of the pieces I had more of a direct hand in:
On Larry Kramer and the impossibility of writing one piece about what that man has meant to my life
On the importance of Kramer’s original essay, “1,112 and Counting”
On the vitally necessary Denver Principles, which changed modern health care as we know it
On Jim Parsons’ uncannily evocative portrayal of a character based on Rodger McFarlane
On the explicit sex in HBO’s adaptation, and the conflict among safer sex advocates at the time
On the whiteness of The Normal Heart, even though the epidemic wasn’t
