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LILY TOMLIN MARRIES PARTNER JANE WAGNER - AND OFFERS SOME "COMING OUT" ADVICE
Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner get hitchedEmmy-winning couple Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner got married on New Year's Eve. Tomlin, 75, and Wagner, 78, have been together for 42 years.The wedding, reported...
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THE NIGHT CONRAD BLACK VISITED MONTREAL GAY LEATHER BAR TRUXX
Le Journal de Montreal's front-page coverage of the police raid on Truxx and Le MystiqueThe historic Montreal police raid on gay leather bar Truxx in the wee morning hours of October 22, 1977, was the...
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MIKA CELEBRATES MONTREAL, FREDDIE MERCURY AND GAY LIBERATION
“Sexuality and identity have been the ingredients of my music and lyrics since the beginning.” UMG recordingsThis interview with Mika originally ran in Daily Xtra on June 18, 2015The tabloids have been...
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FOLK ICON PENNY LANG ON COMING OUT, JANIS JOPLIN AND LEONARD COHEN
"I think you become a legend after living all your life and I haven’t lived all my life yet. I’ll be a legend when I die."Photo courtesy Borealis RecordsThis interview with Penny Lang originally ran in...
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ONE-WOMAN PUSSY RIOT KATE CLINTON
“Coming out as a lesbian on stage is still a very political act – if it weren’t, more women would do it.”This interview with Kate Clinton originally ran in the August 2015 issue of Fugues magazine.I...
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AN AUDIENCE WITH WANDA SYKES
I sat down with legendary stand-up comic Wanda Sykes –who came out publicly in 2008 at a Proposition 8 rally In Las Vegas– on the eve of her 2015 Just For Laughs Gala in Montreal, to talk about her...
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SANDRA BERNHARD: "MY WORK HAS TRANSCENDED GAYNESS"
This interview with Sandra Bernhard originally ran in Three Dollar Bill on June 5, 2008Sandra Bernhard, a Jewish girl in a land of whiny WASPs, knows what it’s like to hurt. That’s why she’s always...
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FELICE PICANO: AN AUDIENCE WITH THE GODFATHER OF GAY LIT
This interview originally ran in the May 2015 issue of Fugues magazineI met literary legend Felice Picano at a Montreal brunch hosted some 15 years ago by my friend Louis Godbout. That day I...
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ON THE ROAD WITH MELISSA ETHERIDGE, PLUS HER POOL PARTIES WITH ROSIE, ELLEN &...
Bugs’ interview with Melissa Etheridge originally ran in the October 2015 issue of Fugues magazine.Three Dollar Bill: Your new album This Is M.E. is a departure for you. What did you want to do with...
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IDINA MENZEL 100% UNCENSORED - ON HER RISE, DIVAHOOD AND HER GAY FANS
Bugs’ interview with Idina Menzel originally ran in the Montreal Gazette on August 31, 2015Idina Menzel remembers the day she fell through a trap door onstage during her Broadway run as the “wicked”...
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PORN MOGUL MICHAEL LUCAS ON PORN INDUSTRY, SEX AND THE MEN OF MONTREAL
New York City porn mogul Michael Lucas, 43, isn't thinking about retirement any time soon (All photos courtesy Lucas Entertainment)Bugs'interview with Michael Lucas originally ran in POP TART on the...
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SHIFTING SANDS: THE PHAROAH'S GAY MANICURISTS
Manicurists and Royal confidantes Niankhkhnum and KhnumhotepIf I weren’t a journalist, I’d be an archaeologist. Both jobs are about bringing to life the stories of other human beings separated only by...
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SHOUT IT OUT LOUD! THE OUT GAY MAN WHO MADE KISS SUPERSTARS
KISS today: Paul Stanley, Eric Singer, Gene Simmons and Tommy ThayerBugs' interview with Roman Fernandez about Bill Aucoin and KISS originally ran in the June 2014 issue of Fugues magazine.The four...
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JUDAS PRIEST FRONTMAN ROB HALFORD: "I'VE BECOME THE STATELY HOMO OF HEAVY METAL"
Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford came out in a 1998 MTV interview.Today he says, "I've become the stately homo of heavy metal."Bugs' interview with Rob Halford originally ran in Daily Xtra on Nov. 20,...
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2015 HEROES AND ZEROS OF THE YEAR
Once again Sir Elton John put his money where is mouth isMy column on the past year’s heroes and zeros originally ran in the January 2016 issue of Fugues magazine.Here is my 20th annual column of the...
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ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN: GERALD FORD AND THE GAY MAN WHO SAVED HIS LIFE
President Ford winces at the sound of the gun fired by Sarah Jane Moore during the assassination attempt in San Francisco, California, on Sept. 22, 1975. White House Photograph Courtesy...
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TRANS COMEDIAN TRANNA WINTOUR: "LIVE OUT LOUD AND AUTHENTICALLY."
Stand-up comedian Tranna Wintour (Photo by Reese Turner)Bugs' original interview with Tranna Wintour ran in the Zwivel news blog on February 18, 2016.“My favorite moment during a show is always the big...
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IN THE COCKPIT WITH NASCAR POSTERBOY CARL EDWARDS AT DAYTONA
Carl Edwards on the cover of ESPN The MagazineMontreal stock-car racing legend Dick Foley was not just the first Canadian to race in the Daytona 500, back in 1959, but Foley also inadvertently caused...
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QUEBEC PLAYWRIGHT AND ICON MICHEL MARC BOUCHARD 100% UNCENSORED
Quebec playwright and icon Michel Marc BouchardThis is an expanded version of Bugs' interview with Michel Marc Bouchard that originally ran in Daily Xtra on May 17, 2016.Quebec playwright and icon...
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BIG BARDA! SHOWBIZ LEGEND LAINIE KAZAN 100% UNCENSORED
Showbiz legend Lainie KazanBugs' interview with Lainie Kazan originally ran in Three Dollar Bill on October 22, 2009.Broadway legend Lainie Kazan is a brassy broad but she says she really ain’t. Then...
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