This interview was conducted as part of the interview podcast, LGBTQ&A.Professionally, Rufus Wainwright has never been in the closet.
His career launched with a self-titled album in 1998, making him one of the first singers at a major record label to be open about their sexuality. "I was dismissed somewhat as this...How can I say?
This off-center, unusual creature," he tells LGBTQ&A.Wainwright's career has indeed been unusual, looking back now over the last 20 years, but not in ways explicitly pertaining to his sexuality.
Interspersed between studio albums, Wainright has written opera, adapted nine of Shakespeare's sonnets into a full album, and even recreated Judy Garland's infamous 1961 Carnegie Hall performance, later released as the.