Therese Plaehn
"my biggest challenge is rising to her and rising to her reality"

Michael Blume
"I am trying to make the musician community more queer."

Rozes
"We attend LGBT events and try to stop bullying."

John Michael Dias
"It doesn't feel like as much of a job when you're doing it for people that love it"

John Ambrosino
"Fly the W in everything you do in life, even before it happens!"

Aluna Francis
"I have a shower singing voice."

Cartreze Tucker
"It was like people on TV that look like me and they are singing songs and they are dancing. That was life changing."

Bishop Briggs
"I loved the idea of all of us having this dark side that is giving it a face."

Jonathan Jackson
"There was a time where it was three men and a baby"

Mondo Cozmo
"We come out and punch you in the mouth nonstop."

Sofi Tukker
"We hate Trump."

Skott
"When I started writing songs it was instrumental video game music that I was producing when I was 13 years old."

Taylor Bennett
"I thought it made the most sense to go in the manor of being honest about myself."

David Hernandez
"... when I’m in the studio it is like therapy for me."

Jose Llana
"now, especially during the election, it gets a laugh, it gets a gasp from the audience..."

Poptone
"Coming full circle here we are right now."

Anthony Murphy
"...and we were holding and just smiling and beaming with energy!"

Chase Lawrence
"We wanted to make something based on all of our life experiences collectively."

JR JR
"I am living with anxiety, but I am thriving on it."

Laura Pergolizzi
"If you can’t tell I am gay person in the first few seconds of laying eyes on me then I feel bad for you."

Isabelle McCalla
"Oh my gosh! I was squealing the entire time!"

Jonathan Weir
"Besides the fabulous make-up and eyebrows, I get to be the antagonist, come in and mess up everyone's good time."

Mathew and Lissa deGuzman
"You may never know that you are going on until three minutes before; and all of a sudden you have a team around you throwing costumes at you and getting ready!"

Jordan von Haslow
"I am very proud to be a Chicagoan."