Author J. Matthew Cobb

J. Matthew Cobb

'Lights Down Low' singer MAX is playing Atlanta Pride

Surging ‘Lights Down Low’ singer MAX on playing Atlanta Pride, fighting stigma

In 2010, a 17-year old Maxwell Schneider made headlines working as a model while posing with Madonna for a Dolce & Gabbana campaign. “It was surreal,” he told Georgia Voice by phone. “Every time I tell t...

Inside the inaugural Queer Black Film Festival

When the Barry Jenkins’ film “Moonlight” captured Best Picture at the 89th Annual Academy Awards, the conversation suddenly shifted towards newer windows of opportunity opening for queer independent filmmakers ...

Indigenous House 7 celebrates black LGBT culture and takes place May 21 in Piedmont Park.

Indigenous House 7 celebrates house music, black LGBT culture in Piedmont Park

Over 25 years ago, the late Ron Hardy mixed down a huge track on Marshall Jefferson’s sprightly vocals that would rise to become an immense anthem for this new, titillating sound coming out of Chicago’s undergr...

Openly gay ‘Other People’ director talks Out On Film closing night film

The meteoric rise of Chris Kelly has astounded a host of entertainment observers and critics. He's gone from being a writer for the since-cancelled satirical news show “The Onion News Network” to sitting at the...

Famed gay director Randal Kleiser talks semi-biographical ‘It’s My Party,’ Out On Film

Randal Kleiser is associated with some of the biggest blockbusters in cinema; the biggest being his very first feature, 1978's “Grease” — the golden comedy musical that Vanity Fair recently dubbed the the bigge...