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LYLE ANTHONY
Rising Global
LGBTQ Superstar
Releases “My
Forever”
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BY EILEEN SHAPIRO
CELEBRITY CORRESPONDENT
South African, L.A.-based
pop star Lyle Anthony has
just released “My Forever”,
his second single from his up
and coming EP entitled “The
Love Project.” In a celebrated
collected effervescence,
the “My Forever” video
features some of L.A.’s
finest entertainers, including
Hollywood’s most prestigious
drag queens, LGBTQ inclusive
professional dancers, and
Miss Shalae, a transgender
Beyonce impersonator.
Lyle Anthony has learned
that there is a greater gift
than the love and trust of
others, and that is to love
and trust yourself. Some
people call it confidence,
others call it faith, but
if it makes us brave, the
label doesn’t matter, for
it’s a theme that frees us
to embrace life itself. “My
Forever” is a celebration of
inclusion and love, and it’s
based on Lyle’s journey of
soul-searching and finding the
beauty in self-love and self
acceptance. The music video
is a story of Lyle’s dating life,
figuring out sexuality and
embracing his journey of
love.
Lyle Anthony hopes to be
able to travel the world and
perform at every Pride event
he can across the globe.
It’s his wish to positively
influence the younger LGBTQ
community, as well as aspiring
performers, to be whoever
they are and love themselves
wholeheartedly.

INTERVIEW
Hello, Lyle. What inspired you to
become a performer?
All of my life, I wanted to be a
performer. When I was in primary
school, my choir teacher always
wanted me to audition, but she
always had these two cute little
girls with her. They were twins.
She would ask me to sing for her,
but I would be so freaked out and
I would never, never make the
choir. It’s been my life‘s mission
to be a singer and performer. I
always knew from a young age
that I could sing, so I had to train
myself through all the rejection
and all of that. The game changer
was when I won the International
Franchise show, Popstars, in
South Africa and became a part
of the Popstars Wall of Fame,
which includes the likes of Nicole
Scherzinger and Girls Aloud.
believe that I am able. All the
things that I was lied to about
became a reality and I had to trust
that. Shortly after that encounter
was when I moved to Los Angeles.
What is the gay scene like in
South Africa?
I’ll tell you this. I am from South
Africa and we always joke and say
that South Africa is not really a
part of Africa, but it really is. But
we have never had an issue like
some other African countries that
are trying to silence our LGBTQ
voices.
That’s a sad story, but it turned
out positive. Was there a
moment that you can recall that
changed the whole trajectory of
your life?
Yes. I believe in God, but I had
a huge struggle with God after
I left the ministry. I struggled
with this religion and how they
said that God hated gays. It kind
of affected me, so I had a huge
fight with God. I was in a club in
Miami and I’ll never forget this,
but this straight guy came up to
me and said “Stop fighting God.”
I asked him what he was talking
about and he said, “You’re in a
fight right now in your life with
God.” That moment changed
my life forever. He told me that I
should accept and love who I am
wholeheartedly and that I was
OK and whatever I was going
through in my life at the time
was going to be OK. I think that
changed the trajectory of my
life because I started believing
in myself so much. I started to

Did you know that South Africa
legalized gay marriage 15 years
ago? America did it only like six
years ago. So gay marriage was
legalized a very long time ago in
South Africa and a lot of people
don’t realize that. However, I’ll
be honest--there’s a closedmindedness
of certain groups of
South Africans that still exists. A
lot of people are ignorant about
the LGBTQ community at large.
I think there is a little of that
everywhere. You can’t please
everybody.
Right, but we are so fabulous
and so amazing! People kind of
want to be us,
but they’re also
scared of us all
at the same time.
That is so
completely true.
I always say that
every straight
woman needs a
gay best friend.
Yes! So if you
could have me
ask you any
question on the
planet, what
would it be and
how would you
answer it?
Wow, that is a deep
question. I think
more than anything,
“How were you
able to accept
yourself?” I think
the answer to that
is not giving a damn
about what anybody
else thought about
me. It’s when I look
in the mirror, the
person looking back
at me felt loved and that I was OK
with ME. So that love I see in that
mirror is my answer.
Well, you’re talented and
glamorous. What is there not to
love?
It’s always those who are talented
and glamorous that seem to not
be content or happy with who
they are. I’m so blessed to be
happy with who I am as a human
being in my own skin. I try to
live as authentically as possible
and don’t really care about what
anybody else thinks about me
when it comes to negativity or
criticism. I don’t mean that in a
conceited way, I just know who I
am and I know that I’m so OK with
being who I am.
There is nothing wrong with
having confidence.
I think there is such a difference
between confidence and
arrogance. When you are full of
yourself, it shows, you can see
it, and it stinks. But when you’re
able to walk into a room with
a silent confidence that turns
heads because you’re more than
OK with being who you are and
being yourself, people see the
difference.
Where do you want to be in five
years?
I want to be really wealthy.
Sometimes people wonder why
you want wealth, but when you’re
wealthy, things that matter in real
life don’t really matter. However, I
want to be able to use that wealth
to help other people in the LGBTQ
community. I think there is such
a need--and this isn’t just a Miss
Congeniality answer--there is such
a need within our community for
self-love and accepting yourself.

What are you currently wishing
to promote?
I’m promoting my new single
and music video, “My Forever”.
The video was directed by the
incredible Brad Hammer and was
at large made possible by Jose
Ramos and the Impulse Group,
which stands to make a huge
difference within the arts for the
LGBTQ community. My producer
of the single is none other than
Carl Seanté and the Wiidope team,
who have produced for the likes
of Tamar Braxton, Ciara, Todrick
Hall and Brandy, to name a few.
The video’s creative direction
and choreography is led by the
immensely talented Christopher
Pitsicalis, who has many years of
experience
in the professional dance world.
The video has just been released,
featuring some of Los Angeles’
finest performers and dancers. It’s
my second single on my debut EP,
which is called “The Love Project.”
“Love Wins” was my first single,
and I want to be able to perform it
at Prides around America and the
world.
Entertainers and dancers include
Bryan Thompson (saxophone),
Sam Garfield, Christopher
Pitsicalis, Rosa Agius, Dominic
Eustes, Tarance Artis from Barbie’s
Addiction, AJ Watkins, Mark
Daftari, Trevor Ryian, Nick Lemmer
and Miss Shalae.
PHOTO CREDIT: @HNSIMAGERY - NICK HERNANDEZ
Follow Lyle Anthony on @lyleanthonyofficial (Instagram)
@lyleanthony_usa (Twitter) @lyleanthony (Facebook)
Website: lyleanthony.com I Lyle Anthony (YouTube)
Both “My Forever and “Love Wins” can be streamed and downloaded on
all music platforms, including iTunes, Apple Music, Spotify, Deezer, TikTok,
Instagram and more. Make sure to check out the “My Forever” Official Music
Video on YouTube.

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BY EILEEN SHAPIRO
CELEBRITY CORRESPONDENT
THE Q
The Newest New York Nightlife Phenomenon
New York City’s newest nightlife phenomenon promises to be
an immersive, innovative and exciting adventure. It’s spawned
from the need for the LGBTQ community to finally emerge
from isolation and rock this town. Owners Bob Fluet, Frankie
Sharp, and Alan Picus are planning to open when things are
safe enough, Sharp telling insider Michael Musto that the
club will be in Hell’s Kitchen. The three major owners agreed
to give us a sneak preview.
INTERVIEW with
FRANKIE SHARP
HI, FRANKIE. FOR THOSE
READERS THAT HAVE NOT
BEEN TO ONE OF YOUR
EVENTS, TELL THEM A LITTLE
ABOUT YOU AND YOUR
NIGHTLIFE BACKGROUND.
I moved to New York on Sept
11, 2009 from San Francisco. I
wanted to work in fashion, so
I got a job assisting a designer
showroom owner, which turned
into some boring desk job
selling fashion wholesale. It
was a dreadful experience, only
because I realized I’d rather be
out till 4 AM at the clubs, and
having to be in the office at 9
AM was NOT working for me.

I got fired from that job and
eventually fell back on what
I knew best: THROWING A
PARTY. So I started organizing
a small weekly night called
“EVERYTHING” at the old
Bedlam space in the Lower
East Side, owned by the guys
who now own Atlas and Club
Cumming. It was a tiny hole in
the wall party, but with huge
personality. You had this sceney,
intimate dance party, but with
big guest DJs and performers
like Hood By Air, Casey Spooner,
Andy Cohen from Bravo, Mykki
Blanco and Sky Ferreira, and
we were one of the first parties
to start booking the Ru girls. It
was about celebrating the queer
spectrum in all of its nonbinary
flow and to keep the vibe there
cross-genre, cross-generational,
cross-cultural. It was a little dash
of everything, which is why I
called the night “EVERYTHING:
A Party For Everyone”.
I won a Paper magazine award
for Best New York Party that
year, which caught the eye of
the celebrity venue owners of
the Westway (also of the Jane
Ballroom) to produce their
big gay weekly rager, which
eventually became the infamous
“WESTGAY”. WestGay ran for
four years and changed my life.
It was the same “everything
and the kitchen sink” approach,
but this time with a budget.
So it was glamour, but it was
all sleaze at the same time. It
was sickening House beats in
one room and Britney Spears
and disco in the other. In the
main room, we had performers
like Azealia Banks, Zebra
Katz, Scissor Sisters and every
beloved drag queen, both local
and from television. Lady Miss
Kier of Deee-Lite DJ’d opening
night and that was quite a
scene. Warhol superstar Holly
Woodlawn (RIP) performed there
once. That night, she leaned
over to me and said “Thank
you for bringing me home”--
the most amazing compliment
anyone has ever given to me
about a night I produced. I’ll
never forget it. Clearly, I have an
affinity for old New York.
Since then, I’ve been producing
weekly parties everywhere-
-at the Jane Hotel, Rebar,
Metropolitan in Brooklyn, both
Dream Hotels and a multitude of
one-off club nights in between.
I was Program Director for 3
Dollar Bill, getting them off the
ground their opening year, and
continued to consult for them
after. All of this shaped me for
my experience of becoming an
owner and operator of THE Q, a
venue of my very own.
WHICH EVENTS WILL YOU BE
OFFERING AND PROMOTING
FOR THE Q?
We will be doing all of our own
events, as we don’t plan to bring
in outside promoters.

I will be working alongside Alan
Picus, promoter and now my
business partner extraordinaire,
on all of our club nights together.
It’s a chance to take the ideas
we both had over our collective
years of experience and make
them brick and mortar under
one roof and even have a
chance to make them happen
simultaneously, since the Q has
multiple rooms. Between Alan
and myself, we know everyone.
SINCE THE CLUB IS SO VAST,
WILL THERE BE NEW EVENTS
NEVER YET EXPERIENCED?
We’ll be doing my usual weekly,
sleazy, soundtracked Gogo
nights, our high energy Club
nights of house and techno in
our towering nightclub on the
top floor, and a classic Sunday
Tea Dance, but also I’ll get
to bring new offerings to the
neighborhood, like a Vogue Ball
with Leggoh Johvera (formerly of
Labeija), not to mention our very
own Q jazz band that will always
play on the ground floor in the
early evening all week long. I
hope to make our programming
a bit more elevated than
what I’ve done in the past, so
you’ll find more burlesque,
performance art, Broadway stars
popping through, and A-listheadlined
comedy nights, and
we all love a drag show, so I am
excited to give people our brand
of a good old-fashioned drag
production. Anyone who knows
my showmanship knows I lay it
on thick from all angles, so I look
forward to gagging the children.

YOU’VE BEEN SUCCESSFUL
IN PROMOTING EVENTS FOR
MANY CLUBS. WHAT IS YOUR
SECRET FOR SUCCESS?
My approach is always doing it
from the customer’s perspective.
So I imagine if I was sitting
pretty turning lewks in the
booth or the cutie nerd hiding
in the corner or the shirtless
extrovert on the dance floor…
What would I want? What is
too much? What is not enough?
What makes me FEEL IT? And I
create from there.
I also make sure that everyone
is represented, from the talent
onstage and behind the DJ
booth to the guests strutting
through the door. As much
as a lot of these venues claim
to be diverse and inclusive, I
actually am and always have
been. I come from a unique
perspective of being a queer,
Asian-American, often times
green-haired weirdo with too
many accessories --but I am
also a musical theater freak,
a jazz connoisseur, a lover of
comedy and storytelling and I
am a conscious thinker and my
closest friends are in art and
fashion, which is its own kind of
theater. So I love incorporating
all of those things in my events,
and I think people feel that and
respond to it lovingly, because
it’s authentic.
DO YOU HAVE A PERSONAL
FAVORITE EVENT, AND IF SO,
WHY?
Gay Pride! Pride, as long as I can
remember from my summers in
San Francisco to the bonkers
parade in New York, has always
been the beginning and the end
of the year to me. It is a great
time of immense gratitude for
everything we have that was
brought to us by the lives of
the brave queer folks who came
before us and the trans activists
who spoke and put themselves
out there just so we can take up
the space we do today. We can
never forget that.
My favorite NYC Pride was four
summers ago. I was DJing on
a float with my best friends for
some corporation that paid us
a boatload to party our faces
off on it. The sun was beaming
down on us and we felt like we
were levitating. The cheers and
the love from the crowd were
roaring back and forth like it
was thunder and it was unlike
anything I’ve ever felt. All of a
sudden, the generator went out
and my speakers died. We were
floating down the street in radio
silence and I was fully panicked.
As we turned the corner and
we all saw Stonewall, all of a
sudden there was a loud POP
and a bright spark, and out of
the speakers came a heavenly
sound: The beginning synth and
kick drums into that trill guitar
and that angelic voice of Donna
Summer whispering in that high
soprano “I FEEEEEL LOVE”!!!!
We all cheered…and then we
wept.

WILL YOU BE ADDING MORE
EVENTS AS YOU GO ALONG?
FRANKIE SHARP
The great thing about THE Q is
we only plan to compete with
ourselves. So we’ll be able to
live and move in the space and
see what people want, what
works and what doesn’t and
just focus on that and make it
happen. THE Q will build itself
and evolve as time goes by
and it is an honor that I get to
be part of a team whose goal
is to make THE Q not only a
money-making nightlife venue,
but post pandemic, is now a
space that is quite literally the
product of love harnessed and
a celebration of the tenacity of
the human spirit.
INTERVIEW with
BOB FLUET
HELLO, BOB. WHAT MADE
YOU DECIDE THAT YOU
NEEDED A MUCH BUSIER
WORKLOAD, TO OPEN
A FOUR-STORY, GIANT
NIGHTCLUB IN THE HEART OF
NYC?
I love creating. I’m happiest
when projects come to life .
YOU HAVE TEAMED UP WITH
TWO VERY SUCCESSFUL
NIGHTLIFE PROMOTERS TO
ENTERTAIN A FRESH, NEW,
EAGER, AWAITING CITY FULL
OF PARTYGOERS. ARE THERE
ANY PLANS TO ADD ANY
OTHER SURPRISES TO THE
EXCLUSIVE OWNERSHIP TEAM
OF THE Q?
We have some very fun investor
folks that we will be able to
announce when the time is right.
But right now we’re focused
on building the ever growing
harmony with the three main
partners of myself, Frankie and
Alan. We’re learning so much
from one another, as we all come
from such different perspectives.
We can still laugh with each
other a year into building this, so
that’s a good sign.

YOU AND YOUR TEAM
HAVE MADE BOXERS
BEST RECOGNIZED FOR
HIRING AND TRAINING THE
MOST PERSONABLE AND
HANDSOME, FUN STAFF.
IT’S ONE OF THE FAVORITE
GAY PLACES TO GO IN NYC,
WITH FRIENDLY DOOR STAFF
AND TOP DJ’S. WILL THE
Q FOLLOW THOSE SAME
FOOTPRINTS ?
Absolutely. It’s our collective
approach to make sure that
THE Q feels like New York. And
that is diverse, welcoming and
inclusive, but it’s also sexy and
fun, and that comes in many
forms, shapes and sizes. From
our staff to our crowd to our
talent, we’re going to represent
all of what New York has to offer.
WORD HAS GOTTEN OUT
BOB FLUET
THAT THE Q WILL HAVE FOOD
SERVED IN THE CLUB, AS
WELL AS SEVERAL ROOMS
OF SPECIAL ENTERTAINMENT
EACH NIGHT? ARE THERE
ANY PLANS TO HAVE
INTERNATIONAL ACTS?
We will be doing a limited
menu for happy hour and a
small menu for late night, but
we are definitely going to do
a good, old classic brunch on
the weekends. We have some
surprises in store for our kind
of brunch. I think we’re gonna
have a lot fun on the weekends!
And yes, Frankie and Alan, like
always, will have talent lined
up from all over. One of our
greatest assets at THE Q is that
we have amazing options of
performance spaces for talent.
BEING A BIT EARLY IN THE
PLANNING STAGES, WILL THE
Q BE OPEN SEVEN NIGHTS
A WEEK? WILL THE CLUB BE
SECTIONED OFF ON THE LESS
BUSY NIGHTS?
Less busy nights? Frankie hates
hearing that, as he seems to
think it’s going to be crazy seven
days and seven nights a week,
so we’re just gonna go with
that, LOL. But we’re four stories
with six different experiences
throughout the space, so there
will be a lot of different kinds
of programming to offer for
people who are a little more
rambunctious and for our crowd
of people who want more of a
lounge or show experience and
some breathing room.

VIP AREAS ARE EXPECTED TO
BE A HUGE PHENOMENON
IN THE FUTURE, TO ALLOW
SMALL GATHERINGS OF
FRIENDS THAT HAVEN’T
PARTIED TOGETHER IN QUITE
SOME TIME. WILL YOU BE
HAVING BOTTLE SERVICE
AND RESERVATIONS FOR VIP
SERVICES?
You will always be able to
stake your claim with us with
a reservation, and we will
always encourage safety and
comfortability levels, post
pandemic. And bottle service
will definitely be a thing on
the top floor nightclub. As for
“VIP”, sure…but we always say
everyone will be VIP at THE Q.
INTERVIEW with
ALAN PICUS
CONGRATS, ALAN. WHAT
WILL YOUR ROLE BE AT THE
Q?
Produce amazing parties.
HOW WILL YOU BE WORKING
ALONG WITH FRANKIE
SHARP?
I am very excited to finally get
to collaborate with my celebrity
colleague and Queen of NYC
nightlife.
WHAT CAN THE PATRONS-TO-
BE GET EXCITED ABOUT?
Well, If size gets you excited,
then our four-floor, five-room
pleasure dome will surely get
you pumped. Instead of bar
hopping through HK, you can
simply check your clothes at the
door and hop between floors all
night, dancing to your favorite
DJs, catching a show in the
cabaret lounge or cruising the
plethora of dark spaces.
WHAT EVENTS ARE
YOU PLANNING THAT
YOU’VE ALREADY DONE
SUCCESSFULLY?
Gosh, it’s always tough picking
favorites. There have been
quite a few parties over the
decades, lol, from weekly parties
in NYC at Splash, XL, Stage
48, Berlin and Copacabana to
the many around the country.
My seven-year production of
PENTHAUS Fridays on the
opulent Copacabana rooftop
was probably my most fun gig.
Fabulous fashionistas and drag
queens mixed and mingled
every week with a diverse crowd
of eclectic, super fun, gorgeous
guests dancing to the beats
of great DJs. Expect a repeat
of that experience at THE Q,
which ironically is just two blocks
north.

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WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE
EVENT AND WHY?
ALAN PICUS
Pride weekend. It kindles
a spirit of unity, pride and
family in the community.
Every guest walking into THE
Q will similarly feel proud and
welcome in our gay owned
and operated venue. We are
not building a club, we are
building a magnificent home
for our friends and extended
family to enjoy and make
amazing memories. Every
night at THE Q will feel like
Pride weekend!

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