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How the Outing of Clay Aiken Trumped Mark Buse
By Eric Hegedus
On Monday afternoon, journalists Michelangelo Signorile and Mike Rogers reported that John McCain's chief of staff Mark Buse is gay. Only one mainstream media outlet touched the story. A day later Perez Hilton revealed that former American Idol star Clay Aiken had come out to People, and the press went wild. What's wrong with this picture?
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Celebrity Travelogue: Sylvia Tosun
By Duane Wells
Not many dance artists performed atop the Great Wall of China alongside Alicia Keys and Cyndi Lauper, but rising dance music phenomenon Sylvia Tosun can lay claim this accomplishment and more. Tosun took a breather to tell GayWired.com about some her favorite spots around the globe, including the ones that have made the most lasting impression on her life and career thus far.
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Big Gay Deal: Pussycat Doll Melody Thornton
By Duane Wells
From how she first became a ‘Doll’ and the pressure to be a role model that comes along with that designation, to the moment on stage that always makes her laugh and what the Pussycat Dolls have in store for fans with their new album, Melody Thornton charts the path to Doll Domination.
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Dave Liang’s Shanghai Restoration Project Tells Musical ‘Story of a City’
New CD bridges old and new along with East and West
By Duane Wells
In this GayWired.com interview, trained classical and jazz pianist Dave Liang opens up about his most recent projects, Instrumentals Day And Night and Story of a City, his historical roots, his East meets West and hip-hop sound, and some of the hidden treasures of Shanghai.
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The News Kids on the Block
Op-Ed
By Eric Hegedus
When NBC notoriously inned very out Olympic gold medalist Matthew Mitcham with the omission of facts about his partner, we thought the network had learned a lesson. Not so, it seems, because the supposedly comfortably out New Kid Jonathan Knight got the same gloss over as Mitcham from Today and The View.
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Reintroducing Devin Lima
By Duane Wells
The first time I saw Devin Lima perform, he was one-third of the late '90s boyband LFO. The pop sensations were performing alongside names like Whitney Houston and Deborah Cox at a soiree for Arista , the label behind their smash hit single 'Summer Girls'. Now more than seven years later, Lima chats with GayWired.com about his transition from boyband personality to edgy, pop wunderkind.
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Big Gay Deal: Erasure’s Andy Bell
By Duane Wells
It’s been more than twenty years since Andy Bell and bandmate Vince Clark joined forces under the banner of Erasure. Twenty five million albums later, the duo is still going strong. In this GayWired.com interview, reluctant gay icon Bell talks about his upcoming Dallas Pride performance, his new album and why being a DJ makes him far more nervous than singing ever could.
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Fresh Sounds: Eric Hutchinson
Debut recording artist's album is anything but OK
By Duane Wells
Fusing elements of pop, soul and acoustic rock, Sounds Like This, the groove-laden new disc from debut recording artist Eric Hutchinson, is a wonderful surprise of an album. In this interview, the pop wunderkind talks about his soulful sound, pressing on in the face of fear, the unexpected blessing of being dropped from a major label and just how much an endorsement from Perez Hilton changed the course of his career.
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Big Gay Deal: Darren Hayes
By Duane Wells
As one half of the multi-platinum duo Savage Garden, Darren Hayes rose to international fame in the late '90s singing the kind of sweet, melodious pop music Top 40 audiences crave. But success was a mixed blessing for Hayes. From his home in London, Hayes opened up to Gaywired.com about his daring new live DVD, finding love and life on the other side of the closet door.
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Celebrity Travelogue: Tami Chynn
By Duane Wells
Her new single may be titled 'Frozen' but I would dare anyone to use that term to describe red-hot, up and coming pop sensation Tami Chynn. From her home in Kingston, Jamaica, the girlishly introspective Chynn talked about her new album Primadonna, her Caribbean birthplace, food, sleep and her feelings about Jamaica's homophobic image.
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Boys of Summer: Ferras
By Duane Wells
At the tender age of 25, up-and-coming recording artist Ferras has seen Hollywood from all sides and it is reflected in nearly every song of his brilliant debut CD Aliens and Rainbows. In this GayWired.com interview, the hit making singer/songwriter opens up about Hollywood's dark side, how Britney Spears nearly derailed his career and being elligible and available for Mr. Right.
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Before They Were Famous: Katy Perry
By Bryan Ochalla
Six months before she was topping the charts with 'I Kissed a Girl,' pissing off the Christian right and raising eyebrows at GLAAD, Katy Perry created a media firestorm with her first gay single, 'Ur So Gay' (which got a big thumbs up from Madonna). We talked to Katy on the eve of her breakthrough success, and we revisit that chat here.
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Big Gay Deal: Michelle Williams
By Duane Wells
After climbing the charts with Beyonce and Kelly as part of the hit trio Destiny's Child, Michelle Williams is finally stepping into the world of pop music on her own. The saucy club vixen just went number one with 'We Break The Dawn,' so we sat Michelle down to discuss the rumored DC reunion, stepping out solo and why she makes no apologies for loving God and loving gays.
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Katy Perry Kissed a Girl... Should We Like It?
Op-Ed
By David Salter
This week saw the coronation of a new number one on the Billboard charts: A catchy song called 'I Kissed a Girl,' made even more interesting because the singer is 23-year-old bombshell Katy Perry. Critical reaction to the single has been decidedly mixed... some call it lesbian-friendly. Others accuse Perry of yet another attempt to make the gay community the butt of a joke.
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Chante Moore: On Love, Relationships and Her CD ‘Love The Woman’
By Duane Wells
It's been nearly a decade since Chante Moore released a solo CD. Now, the woman who declared 'Chante's Got a Man' is back. In a phone conversation, Chante talked about surviving in the biz, love and relationships using her self-described 'baby-making' album to set the mood... no matter who your partner is.
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