Paul Hagen has been the Editor-in-Chief of Metrosource since 2007. He’s interviewed many members of the LGBTQ community and our allies for Metrosource, including Augusten Burroughs, Boy George, RuPaul Charles, Margaret Cho, Jennifer Hudson, Cheyenne Jackson, Adam Lambert, Jason Mraz, Kylie Minogue, Amy Sedaris and Gwen Stefani, among others. He has also travelled from the snowy north of Sweden (to weather a night in its Ice Hotel) to a secret gay dance party on the islands of Curaçao to cover the world of gay travel. Mr. Hagen has also been an active participant in New York City’s vibrant theater scene, writing shows including The Only Thing Straight Is My Jacket at the New York International Fringe Festival, Fitz & Walloughs Get It in the End at The Ace of Clubs, The Rape of the Lock with the Judith Shakespeare Company and Unheard Of at the Blue Heron Arts Center. He is a graduate of Fordham University, lives in Brooklyn with his partner of more than seven years, and can often be heard singing at The Manhattan Monster Bar and The Duplex Cabaret and Piano Bar.
What’s the biggest lesson photographer Eric Schwabel learned over the course of his varied career? If there’s something he want to see in his subject, he has to make them...
Paul Hagen is almost as traumatized by Looking Season Two, Episode Five as Richie was by his childhood. Previously on Looking… Dom was SHOCKED that Quantum Lynn couldn’t...
A review of the film adaptation of The Last Five Years starring Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan, directed and adapted for the screen by Richard LaGravenese from the musical by...
Previously, on Looking… Dom became a gay rugby player and bitched out Quantum Lynn hard for doing hateful things like try to help him get a better job. Patrick and Hot British...
Previously on Looking… Dom seemed a little out of his depth in his relationship with Quanum Lynn. Agustin continued his luge toward rock bottom by drinking and doing drugs...
Editor-in-chief Paul Hagen recaps the sheer panic of Looking’s second episode of the season. Previously on Looking… Agustin was finally starting to see his own...
Around the time I started working at Metrosource, I discovered something extraordinary happening on the internet. There was a site called “Television Without Pity,” and — at...
We talk to actor Murray Bartlett about playing the show’s resident sex symbol Dom about the world of Looking – including his character’s signature ‘stache. Meeting...
Gwen Stefani’s life has been full of surprises lately. After two successful solo albums, she had reunited with No Doubt and had no intentions of doing another solo album anytime...
Fans may recognize Luke Evans as the mighty Apollo from Clash of the Titans or the virile Zeus from Immortals. Given this mythical cinematic lineage, the openly gay actor’s coming out must have been epic, right? We’re picturing a closet door exploding into a hurricane of splinters as his burly frame muscles its way into …
Matthew Richardson’s journey has followed a circuitous path. For the former Cirque du Soleil performer, you might even say literally, having mastered the art of spinning on the Cyr wheel in everything from a voluminous red dress and heels to nothing but a pair of form fitting oh-so-short shorts and a lot of body glitter …
This COVID experience has made most of us sit at home and hang out with no one else but ourselves. Alone without the distraction of social life and social pressures, we have no one else to account to but ourselves; it has become a time of reflection and self-awareness. Without having to go to a …