Happy 33rd birthday to the incredible Ariana Grande-Butera.
Following her debut, the Grammy-winning vocalist and Academy Award nominated actress quickly proved herself in having one of the most impressive voices in pop music today. Her record-breaking music career includes universally-acclaimed albums such as āSweetenerā, āthank u, nextā, āDangerous Woman.ā The star is currently performing on her sold-out Eternal Sunshine tour, in which she is simultaneously promoting the release of her upcoming album āpetal.ā She is one of the most streamed artists in history, with 10 #1 Billboard Hot 100 hits to her name.
It would take far more than a month to honor the contributions of queer and transgender New Yorkers.
From the Cercle Hermaphroditos in 1895, the first trans advocacy group in the United States, to the drag balls of the Harlem Renaissance, to the Stonewall uprising, to the Lesbian Herstory Archives, to ACT UP!, founded in 1987 as queer people fought for their lives while the Reagan administration looked away, New York City's history has long been shaped by queer and trans New Yorkers.
To all our queer and trans neighbors: you deserve a City where you can afford to live safely, openly, and joyfully.
Happy Pride, New York City.
Cynthia Erivo on the publicās perception of her friendship with Ariana Grande:
āItās very interesting, watching what peopleās perception is versus what the reality actually is. Lots of psychologists seated at home deciding who we were, what we were going through, what we were doing and why. I think that people didnāt really believe that we were actually friends. But thatās also because people donāt know me very well. If Iām a friend, then Iām a friend. If Iām not, then Iām not.ā
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Cynthia Erivo responds to jokes about her being Ariana Grandeās ābodyguardā after defending her from an intruder on the āWICKED: FOR GOODā red carpet:
āI think that we havenāt really come to terms with the insidious nature of how we view Black women. And Iām sure people will read this and think, āOh, for goodnessā sake, itās not about that.ā But it is. Because thatās what was being made fun of. It was my physique; it was my shape; it was the fact that I was bald; it was about what I looked like. And because of that, there was this assumption that I was bigger than my co-star and so I had to be controlling or protecting, and that was my role. I would hazard a guess that it would not have been the same had it been the other way around.ā
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