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seen anything like this. It’s a comedy album that’s also a Christmas album, that’s also a full pop record. But I just say to myself, “You know what, so I did something new.” So I’m just trying my best to have a sense of humor about it because it’s so fucking funny that this is happening. Here you are laughing and nearly crying. It’s a weird mix of emotions. It’s my music, but also it’s my comedy. So it’s this odd fork in the road I find myself at where I’m being vulnerable in sharing and asking people to listen to me, in terms of what I create musically, but also as a comedian, my self-awareness is what arms me. So it’s this very bizarre hybrid product I have right now, and I’m having a very weird hybrid experience with it: One, I worked really hard and it’s vulnerable, and two, LOL, this is so dumb! Both of those things can be true.
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I guess that’s like Christmas. Yay, we’re celebrating; also, it’s pretty stupid. Like, “Look at this. What is this, tinsel?” What does it have to do with anything? I just hope people get it, and if they don’t, I hope they have a good time not getting it.
ome get cozy around the fire with your chestnuts You mentioned that this is pop and Christmas, but it’s and hear the soon-to-be classic tale of how also unabashedly queer. Santa got all the toys into his big bag. That tale, as written by actor-musician-podcaster Matt Rogers, I didn’t try to make a gay album. I don’t think of this involves what else but Gun Oil. Rogers sings about the as a gay Christmas album or a gay comedy album. It’s lubricant on “Lube for the Sleigh,” the second song on my album. I never once thought, “We need more gay his first album that is like a Lonely Island release, just shit or less gay shit on this,” or, “We already have a gayer and by someone who is actually gay. This is “not gay song, so we can’t do another gay song.” I’m pretty your grandma’s Christmas album,” Rogers says. fucking gay. It’s a pretty intrinsic part of my personality, and therefore my comedy. So I don’t think of it as I’m “I kind of hacked the system with this one,” he goes a representative of the queer community, even though on, just days before promoting the album on “The Kelly I obviously am. I’m representing myself. This is what I Clarkson Show.” “I’m on ‘Kelly Clarkson’ and selling this think is funny. The same way when Dane Cook didn’t album to a bunch of people that are watching at home, think, “I’m making an incredible straight comedy album who are going to be a little shook when they find out right now.” what this really is, and I kind of love that.” Do you recognize that the Christmas genre has been It’s true that you won’t hear Queen of Christmas dominated by a heterosexual narrative and that you Mariah Carey singing about one of the horniest times get to do something really special and different just of the year on “Have You Heard of Christmas?”; leave because you are queer? that to Rogers. The album’s sexy (can you even say that about a Christmas song?) lead single is a club banger Yeah, I think that because I’m queer, I get to say some about banging. Called “Also It’s Christmas,” the song is truths about the whole Christmas thing, and one of real life for a lot of queer men — you go home to visit the truths is that no one does this because they love the parents and also get a fresh grid of Grindr torsos. Christmas. No artist is making a Christmas album Merry Christmas one and all, but especially to you! because they’re super excited about making a Christmas And to Rogers, whose childhood dream was always to album. They’re super excited about participating in record a comedy album. the capitalist moment that is the Christmas season and that’s funny. There’s a lot of comedy in that. And Best known for his supporting roles on the Showtime so that is why I titled my album, “Have You Heard of comedy “I Love That For You” and in the Hulu film “Fire Christmas?” Because obviously everyone has, but Island,” the 35-year-old aspiring Christmas prince is also then when you listen to my song, “Have You Heard of the co-host of the podcast Las Culturistas, alongside Christmas?”, it’s really coming from the point of view of friend Bowen Yang. In December 2022, Rogers hosted this person that knows that Christmas is this unifier and his own Showtime musical-comedy special, also called this thing that’s so dominant in the culture, but also at “Have You Heard of Christmas?” the same time has no idea where it’s come from, has no idea why we celebrate it, has no idea that it even has Now that the album has slipped out of Santa’s slippery anything to do with religion. bag and into our hands, I caught up with Rogers to chat about why it made sense for his first album to be So I think that there’s something really funny about our Christmas-themed (#capitalism), finding success when disconnect between why Christmas exists in the first he decided to lean into who he is and why he thinks it place and why we celebrate Christmas. And so I think might be “dumb” to release this album. if I’m looking at this through a queer lens, one of those things is I’m taking the piss out of it because it’s funny How are you feeling about the album coming out? and it’s actually way more obvious than we all think. It’s literally screaming at us: spend money, spend It’s pretty surreal. I think that the most exciting thing money, spend money. And yet we code it in this thing, will be when I get to hold my vinyl in my hands. A which is gift giving. It’s beautiful. It’s about celebrating couple of my friends have reached out and… oh my and being together. It’s about family. It’s about the god, I get emotional. I think sometimes I get a little stories we tell. And all of it is attached to money. in my head and insecure about the fact that I haven’t
You also get to say things about Christmas that Mariah overachieving. and Cher can’t, like acknowledging hookup culture The best little boy in the world. during the holidays. This album coming through a queer lens, yeah, part of It sounds like there’s a big part of your drive that is it is that Christmas is one of the horniest times of the still that kid. year for gays on the apps. We’re back at home. There’s no one around. I actually have several years in a row Yeah, I mean, absolutely. For me, it changed when I was over the Christmas holiday realized that someone I was in my 20s. To me, success meant that I was just solid as into was into me too, because they also were at home, a rock and that I looked like everyone else and did what horny and on their phone, and we started sending everyone else was doing. Individuality was not prized nudes back and forth. I’ve hooked up with those when I was growing up or just in the culture at that people, and it’s because there is such a heightened time. Suddenly I moved to New York to go to college, sense of horniness when you’re isolated on Christmas and it became really clear to me that that was not with just your family and you’re just going stir-crazy. So true anymore. We were moving into a new era. I don’t know whether it was the Obama election or just people that’s kind of where “Also It’s Christmas” was born. catching on about gay rights throughout the country, or Also, just to be totally honest, I just wanted a banger as just diversity even becoming a topic. Suddenly it was the lead single, and I thought, “What’s an environment like, no, in order to be successful, you have to have a I could place this in?” Obviously the club, and also, it’s strong point of view. You have to get your individuality just so funny to me to think about the holiday and the across, you have to stand out. cold and the family of it all surrounding what is a horny Even when I started doing comedy. I did the acceptable atmosphere. kind of comedy, which was sketch and improv comedy. How much did Mariah’s own influence on Christmas I could connect that to “Saturday Night Live” and so become your inspiration for your music launch with a therefore, everyone at home would understand why I was doing it, because “SNL” was cool. When I came out Christmas album? of the closet, I started to finally turn more into myself. Pretty much a hundred percent. It was 2017, and I And I think it really crystallized when Bowen and I was looking for a new show to put up, and I really was started doing the podcast and we literally thought no just trying to figure out what the angle was going to one else was going to listen or that it was going to be be for my next one-man show back when I was just a thing. And so we really just talked to each other as doing comedy in New York, and I thought I had seen an ourselves in a vacuum, and without any thought about interview with Mariah Carey and the interviewer was whether or not people would like it or want to keep complimenting her on, basically, her owning Christmas. listening to it or think it was cool. Things really changed for me once I leaned into myself and leaned into the I thought to myself, “Oh, maybe that’s a funny angle for things that make me different. a comedy show: I’m releasing a Christmas album.” So it all started as a bit like, “Please come to The Duplex and What’s the story behind your collaboration with see me perform my Christmas album, which is definitely Bowen on “Rockafellacenta”? real for sure. Absolutely one-hundred definitely coming out for the very first time.” And it was a hit just amongst So I wrote “Rockafellacenta” years ago because I my friends and family that came to the show, and then basically... OK, to be totally honest, I had auditioned every year it grew and grew and grew till now, in 2023, I for “Saturday Night Live” and didn’t get it, and I was literally have a Christmas album coming out on Capitol thinking a lot about that part of town. I was in that part Records, so I’m happy, one, as a person who always of town a bunch; it’s just so commercial. And again, it’s wanted to release an album as a kid; that was always the tree. I had grown up going to the tree, and it was my dream. And, two, as a comedian, because I stuck this place that was so larger than life, but also so sort of everything that this project satirizes. It is just this big, the bit. busy collection of people from all over the world who Best of both worlds coming together for you. I mean, come and stand and stare at a tree. It’s essentially run obviously, neither are an easy pursuit, and somehow by a media company, NBC Universal, and it made me you have made them both come together at the same laugh to think about going there on a date. It made me laugh to think about, do you really want to get gussied time. up and be romantic and you choose Rockefeller Center? You just have to fake it. A basic bitch Christmas tale. You have to fake it till you make it. And you made it. Bit of a tale of a basic bitch, yeah. And so, I wrote this I guess. I keep faking it. So many things have gone so song years ago, and now years later, Bowen still works amazingly well in my career, but it never feels like it’s in Rockefeller Center, and I just thought it would be so enough sometimes. There’s always that next thing. funny, because it was a short song, to beef it up with So the other day I found myself in a situation where this “Vogue”-inspired breakdown that talked about all I was just like, hold on, just stop for a second and pull the legends that had worked in Rockefeller Center. And yourself out of this and tell your little 12-year-old self so I sent it to him. It really just elevates the song, and that you’re releasing an album. I can buy a vinyl with to me, makes it so funny that he is speaking for all of Rockefeller Center. And the way it ends with him saying my face on it. That’s insane. his own name, I guess he’s really cemented his legend I don’t even want to ask you what’s next. Let’s not with this song. even talk about it. Chris Azzopardi is the Editorial Director of Pride OK, good. Don’t ask because I literally don’t know. As Source Media Group and Q Syndicate, the the industry collapses all around us, what a horrifying national LGBTQ+ wire service. He has interviewed question too. “What’s next?” Literally, every single a multitude of superstars, including Cher, Meryl person in the entertainment industry is so horrified by Streep, Mariah Carey and Beyoncé. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, Vanity that question nowadays. Fair, GQ and Billboard. Reach him via Twitter @ I want to unpack something that you said about chrisazzopardi.
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rowing up, there were signs that Andrés Upon receiving the script, you must have G Ericksen would one day be an actor. “I known right away that you wanted to be a took a liking to theater in third grade and part of this film. pursued it in school every year after that,” he recalls. “I’m honestly not sure what attracted me to the stage and screen, because I was I appreciated Jono telling a story centered typically pretty shy and had a lot of social on a queer friendship as opposed to a anxiety.” romance. That’s not something you typically see in media, and this specific dynamic felt After graduating high school in Oviedo, refreshing to read. Florida, he made his way to Atlanta because it was the closest film hub to his family in the southeast. A typical day consists of waking I agree. It’s an important film about up, having coffee with a side of existential friendship and how while most often, birds crisis, and hopefully remembering to breathe. of a feather flock together, sometimes opposites attract. In that way, he a lot like Robbie, the character he plays in the new series, Bad Together. When we first meet his character, Robbie’s For their own reasons, Cameron and Robbie just been dumped and is in that vulnerable are both pretty lost at the start of the film. Both where do I go from here? stage. In walks are in search of a genuine connection, and Cameron, a life of the party type, who appears they both happen to be in the right place at to be everything Robbie is missing in life. But the right time. Or the wrong time, depending you know what they say: appearances can on how you look at it. be deceiving. Why are they so bad for each other? I loved the story that is told in Bad Together. How did you land the role? I don’t think either of them fully understands what they’re looking for when they first Jono Mitchell, the film’s writer and director, meet, but they assume it’s each other. Over sent me the script. His first twenty choices time they try and push each other into their own personal boxes that the other never must have turned him down.
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Dining
24 Las Margaritas Closed Temporarily
Retail
1842 Cheshire Bridge Rd
26 Barking Leather 27 Southern Nights
1510 Piedmont Ave Suite A 2205 Cheshire Bridge Rd
28 Heretic 29 Tokyo Valentino
2069 Cheshire Bridge Rd 1739 Cheshire Bridge Rd
30 Gravitee Fitness
2201 Faulkner Rd NE
clubs
Fitness
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32 Atlanta Eagle 1492 Piedmont Ave NE 33 Felix's 1510 Piedmont Ave NE 34 The Hideaway 1544 Piedmont Ave NE 35 Mixx 1492 Piedmont Ave NE 36 Oscar's 1510 Piedmont Ave NE Mary's 1287 Glenwood Ave SE Sister Louisa’s Church 466 Edgewood Ave SE Lips Atlanta 3011 Buford Hwy NE 465 Boulevard SE The T Woof's 494 Plasters Ave NE
Retail
39 Boy Next Door 40 Barking Leather
Fitness
1447 Piedmont Ave NE 1510 Piedmont Ave NE
41 Equilibrium Fitness 1529 Piedmont Ave, Suite L
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A snapshot of Gay Atlanta’s favorite destinations. View their ads in DAVID & visit their websites for weekly event listings.
SNAPS
BLAKE’S ON THE PARK blakesontheparkatlanta.com 227 10th St NE BULLDOGS 893 Peachtree St NE FRIENDS NEIGHBORHOOD BAR friendsonponce-atl.com 736 Ponce De Leon Ave NE
ATLANTA EAGLE 1492 Piedmont Ave NE FELIX’S 1510 Piedmont Ave NE THE HIDEAWAY 1544 Piedmont Ave NE MIXX mixxatlanta.com 1492 Piedmont Ave NE
132 10th St NE LA HACIENDA lahaciendamidtown. com 900 Monroe Dr NE TUK TUK THAI FOOD LOFT TUKTUKATL.COM 1745 Peachtree Rd NW DEKALB LIPS ATLANTA atldragshow.com 3011 Buford Hwy NE
MY SISTER’S ROOM mysistersroom.com 66 12th St NE
OSCAR’S oscarsatlanta.com 1510 Piedmont Ave NE
X MIDTOWN xmidtown.com 990 Piedmont Ave NE
WOOFS woofsatlanta.com 494 Plasters Ave NE
THE T modeltatlanta.com 465 Boulevard SE
EAST ATLANTA, GRANT PARK & EDGEWOOD
CHESHIRE
MARY’S marysatlanta.com 1287 Glenwood Ave SE
SOUTHERN NIGHTS VIDEO 2205 Cheshire Bridge Rd NE
SISTER LOUISA’S CHURCH sisterlouisaschurch. com 466 Edgewood Ave SE
ANSLEY
HERETIC hereticatlanta.com 2069 Cheshire Bridge Road BJ ROOSTERS bjroosters.com 2043 Cheshire Bridge Road NE WESTSIDE MARQUETTE 868 Joseph E. Boone Blvd NW 840ATL 840 Joseph E. Boone Blvd NW ANSLEY
DINING MIDTOWN
NESS urbanbodyfitness. com 500 Amsterdam Ave N CHESHIRE GRAVITEE FITNESS graviteeatl.com 2201 Faulkner Rd NE SPAS/BATHS ADULT FLEX SPA flexspas.com 76 4th St NW
RETAIL MIDTOWN BARKING LEATHER AFTER DARK barkingleather.com 1510 Piedmont Ave NE CHESHIRE
BOY NEXT DOOR MENSWEAR boynextdoormenswear.com 1000 Piedmont Ave NE, Ste A
CASA ALMENARA 991 Piedmont Ave NE casa-almenara.com
GCB & PLEASURES brushstrokesatlanta. com 1510-D Piedmont Ave. NE FITNESS
HENRY’S henrysatl.com
URBAN BODY FIT-
MIDTOWN
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