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."

Juliana Hatfield
"I think sexism is a form of discrimination."

Spencer Ludwig
"The LGBT community knows how to have fun."

Wanda Jackson
"I always said if I can make it to 80 years old that would be it, and 80 is coming up!"

Sara Davis Buechner
"Now if we can just get that orange rug out of the White House everything will be just fine!"

Kevin Ross
"I want to encourage my predecessors for the next generation to uplift them and make them feel better, to keep them on the right track."

JD Doyle
"I've been aggressively collecting music by LGBT artists since the 1990s."

The Posies
"That song is a surreal examination of the times we live in."

Nina Diaz
"I love to go dancing, I really do."

Ruth B
"I hope that when people hear my music they know they are hearing my stories in life, things that I have been through, or my friends have been through."

Phebe Starr
"Race, religion, gender, sexuality in normal life impact all of us."