Gavin Creel
"I spent a long time being afraid and thinking that if I got too queer or too gay, somehow it would actually come back and hurt me"

Kelly Fremon Craig
"This makes the book timeless and the truth is the truth every decade."

Sam Nackman
"Who cares what happens when we're dead? Why should we think that far ahead?"

JD Caudill
"There are sequences that are unbelievable but at the heart of it is a really beautiful story about identity."

Naomi Rodgers and Zurin Villanueva
"I hope they leave floating on a high note; I just really want them to ride that back into their lives, into their jobs, into whatever it is"

Harrison Drake
"these little paper mache caricatures that a friend made for me for my birthday that I lay out on my dressing room station"

Sav Souza
"there have been moments where we've needed to navigate just transphobia in the world and in the industry..."

DJ Nick Stracener
"I am so stoked about playing at Hydrate."

Amadeo Fusca
"I just kind of want to make them laugh with whatever goofy stuff I have going on."

Julia Wolf
"My music speaks from a place of experience."

Michael Fitzpatrick
"I always try to put out a message of living your truth."

Brian Kalinowski
"...it's what they call a princess track. You get to just roll on stage and do your thing and get your big applause and then leave..."

Irene Dubois
"We all have a bond now and call ourselves “The Porkchops.”"

Allison Ponthier
"I am really proud of how my projects have helped me as a queer woman."

Justin Wirick
"I just remember I freaking loved it"

Anna Diop
"There are many parallels between Aisha’s journey and my mother’s journey."

SG Lewis
"I would like to be known for my own contributions to my music as well as for contributing to other musicians’ work."

Donna McKechnie
"My inspirations were Carol Lawrence and Chita Rivera in West Side Story."

Gioli & Assia
"We like people to know our story and hopefully it can help them, not just with the music."

Ely Guerra
"I also want to honor the stage and my audience by what I wear."

Beth Leavel and Taylor Iman Jones
"that said, I have such easy access to my inner diva..."

Javier Muñoz and Megan Masako Haley
"He has one song that makes me feel like I'm the little kid in my room dancing with nobody watching, and that kind of freedom."

Andy Siara
"It is a wild ride!"

Paul Louis Lessard
"I'm outspoken and outlandish. I'm out there. I'm a proud queer individual, and I embrace all of those aspects in my frenetic three and half minute number"