Mary’s attic
Nickname: Popcorn Girl, Green Bean
Age: 27
Single/Partnered: Partnered to JJ. It will be 2 years this August.
City/Neighborhood: Edgewater
Unique Talent: My step dad says I can sell ice to an Eskimo.
Who’s Your Gay Idol: Yoda Joe, aka Joey Williams, my voice teacher in Manhattan
Guiltiest Pleasure: Jack Daniel’s on the rocks with a splash of Coke
Worst Habit: I have to be in control of everyone and everything all the times… sorry babe.
First Concert: Celine Dion
Alicen Santos
SPIN
Age: Older than you’d think
Single/Partnered: Both
City/Neighborhood: Been all over.
Worst Habit: Interrupting people, but im working on it!
First Concert: Pink
Jeff Johnson
HYDRATE
Nickname: Filthyrebel
Age: 34
Single/Partnered: Partnered two and half years
City/Neighborhood: Lincoln Square
Unique Talent: My impressions of Aaron Neville and Peter Griffin/Family Guy
Who’s Your Gay Idol: Rob Halford/Judas Priest
Guiltiest Pleasure: Lots of chocolate chip cookies
Worst Habit: Smoking
First Concert: Bulletboys/Slaughter/Poison
Judith Weirauch
@MOSPHERE
Nickname: Jude
Age: A lady doesn’t tell.
Single/Partnered: Very happily partnered
City/Neighborhood: Andersonville
Unique Talent: Ask my girlfriend…
Who’s Your Gay Idol: John Waters
Guiltiest Pleasure: Stupid romantic comedies
Worst Habit: Forgetting people’s names
First Concert: Styx
Jamie Newland
SCARLET
Nickname: Tiger
Age: 38
Single/Partnered: Boyfriend
City/Neighborhood: Boystown
Unique Talent: Improv comedy
Who’s Your Gay Idol: Kelly Clarkson and Gay Idol 2007 Dan Kerry!
Guiltiest Pleasure: Old Super Friends cartoons
Worst Habit: Double dipping
First Concert: Barenaked Ladies
Valerie MacCabe
SPIN
Nickname: Tink, Tinkerbell
Age: 24
Single/Partnered: Just moved here, very single… and looking.
City/Neighborhood: Wheeling (Northwest Suburbs)
Unique Talent: I make a mean grilled cheese. No, really.
Who’s Your Gay Idol: Freddie Mercury
Guiltiest Pleasure: I still color in coloring books.
Worst Habit: I’m ALWAYS late.
First Concert: The Vandals on my 16th birthday
James Gavin
@MOSPHERE
Nickname: Stamos
Age: 24
Single/Partnered: Engaged to a wonderful man named Dustin Johnson
City/Neighborhood: Edgewater
Unique Talent: I do this really cool thing with my tongue.
Who’s Your Gay Idol: Elton John—an amazing song writer and an amazing gay icon.
Guiltiest Pleasure: Fast food
Worst Habit: I’m constantly singing no matter where I am.
First Concert: Too far back to remember
Lori Anderson
THE CLOSET
Nickname: Andi, PeaNut or Lockport Lori
Age: 40-something
Single/Partnered: Partnered with Sue. She’s beautiful and amazing. I live to see her smile.
City/Neighborhood: Lockport, IL
Unique Talent: I can palm the floor.
Who’s Your Gay Idol: My brother, Pammie Schultz
Guiltiest Pleasure: Playing and singing with my peeps. Love those harmonies, girls!
Worst Habit: Can’t think of any. Even my girlfriend couldn’t!
First Concert: Elvis
S.R.
SCARLET
Age: 28
Single/Partnered: Who wants to know?
City/Neighborhood: Boystown, relocated to Chicago from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in December of 2005
Unique Talent: Putting together an outfit that looks like a million bucks from discount stores, or home decorating…
Who’s Your Gay Idol: Honey West
Guiltiest Pleasure: Sugar on theatre popcorn
Worst Habit: Impatience
First Concert: Michael Jackson’s History Tour
BRIAN Tiffany
CLUB KRAVE
Nickname: Vampire
Age: 28
Single/Partnered: Taken for now
City/Neighborhood: Southside
Unique Talent: I am me and I am unique.
Who’s Your Gay Idol: I would like it to be Malik or myself (gotta root for the Southsiders).
Guiltiest Pleasure: The company of straight men, lol
Worst Habit: Correcting people when they’re wrong
First Concert: Aerosmith
Malik Samuel
CLUB KRAVE
Nickname: Hoops
Age: Legal
Single/Partnered: Partnered
City/Neighborhood: Beverly
Unique Talent: Basketball playing
Who’s Your Gay Idol: George Michael
Guiltiest Pleasure: The Internet
Worst Habit: Facebook
First Concert: New Edition’s Heartbreak Tour
Antonio King
HYDRATE
Nickname: Tony
Age: If I told you, I’d have to kill you.
Single/Partnered: Partnered to one of the sexiest men alive!
City/Neighborhood: Bronzeville
Unique Talent: I can make my ears click—yes, click!
Who’s Your Gay Idol: The late, great Bayard Rustin
Guiltiest Pleasure: ICE CREAM!
Worst Habit: According to my partner it would be leaving my clothes laying around.
First Concert: With my music teacher in grammar school, Mrs. Robinson
Marla Depew
STAR GAZE
Nickname: Mars
Age: The big 3-0
Single/Partnered: My boyfriend Rusty loves my goofy, queer feminist self.
City/Neighborhood: Andersonville
Unique Talent: I have yet to meet anyone who can flare their nostrils out and in and out again faster than I can.
Who’s Your Gay Idol: My second grade gym teacher Miss B.
Guiltiest Pleasure: The Bachelor and The Bachelorette
Worst Habit: I’m too damn lazy.
First Concert: The Lemonheads