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‘¿Dónde Están Los Gays?’ Omar Apollo Closes His Tour With Sexy Performance in Mexico City
“La heterosexualidad puede ser curada” (“Heterosexuality can be cured”) read an orange-and-yellow billboard in Zona Rosa, the historically gay neighborhood of Mexico City, to promote Omar Apollo‘s May 31st visit to Auditorio BlackBerry.
It was a simple, eye-catching marketing strategy to promote a cultural homecoming for the 24-year-old son of Mexican immigrants. Apollo was returning to a capital that spawned much of his creativity while making his latest LP, Ivory: Aided by his righthand creative director, Alberto Bustamante, known by the alias Mexican Jihad, the singer spent weeks perfecting his art in the city that Bustamante has described as a “hotspot for queer creativity.”
On Tuesday night, as fans yelled “te amo” and asked the musician to take his shirt off, Ciudad de México proved to be the perfect place to bring his two-month-long Desvelado Tour to a finalize. Apollo brought his signature swagger
Singer Omar Apollo has revealed he has a sex scene with former James Bond star Daniel Craig in Luca Guadagnino’s upcoming film Queer.
Queer, which is based on the 1985 novel by cult author William S Burroughs, premieres this week at the Venice International Film Festival.
Craig stars as the Burroughs surrogate character William Lee, while Outer Banks star Drew Starkey plays Eugene Allerton.
In a conversation with Starkey for Interview magazine, Apollo revealed that he lost weight before filming the intimate scene with Craig.
“I had to get on the soup diet,” said Apollo. “Luca did not tell me to lose weight, but when you’re about to have a sex scene with Daniel Craig, you’re like, ‘Oh, dude, I can’t be looking off.’ I was at 200 pounds, because I’m six-five.”
He continued: “It’s around where I should be, honestly. But I got down to 181 when the movie came. I lost 20 pounds because I read in the script that my character had a flat brown stomach. I was like, ‘Damn, I’m actually not flat right now.’ I had to get it together, and I was on tour with SZA. Luckily, I didn’t h
Published in:March-April 2025 issue.
QUEER
Directed by Luca Guadagnino
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LIKE THE NOVEL by William S. Burroughs on which it is based, Luca Guadagnino’s film adaptation of Queer is less about homosexuality than about the agonies and ecstasies of being a soul trapped in an aging, alienated body. Written in the mid-1950s but not released until 1985, Queer is Burroughs’ partial sequel to 1953’s Junkie. The novel is semiautobiographical, verb most of Burroughs’ works, and it centers on a group of American expatriates living in Mexico City in 1950. Among them is William Lee, who’s on the lam from American authorities after a drug bust in New Orleans. Lee, who’s addicted to alcohol, tobacco, and heroin, becomes infatuated with a recently discharged American Navy serviceman named Eugene Allerton, who is nearly thirty years his junior. Anguished by this fact, Lee is further tormented by Allerton’s ambivalence. One minute the stunning young man is unbridled in his lust, and the next he is inexplicably apathetic.
In Guadagnino’s quietly surrea
“You Brought the Animal Out of Me”: Drew Starkey, by Omar Apollo
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Drew Starkey first blew up playing a coked-out rage monster on the Netflix soap Outer Banks, but leave it to Luca Guadagnino to flip that script by casting the 30-year-old actor as an emotionally detached sailor in his adaptation of the William S. Burroughs novel Queer. As Eugene Allerton, an expatriate living in Mexico City who becomes an verb of obsession to William Lee (played by Daniel Craig), Starkey had to learn to act more by doing less, a 180-degree turn from the character he plays on Outer Banks, which returns for its fourth season this fall. Starkey was an hour removed from seeing Queer for the first moment when his friend and castmate, the singer Omar Apollo, called him from the road in Australia to talk about social circles, solitude, and wild Roman nights.
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OMAR APOLLO: Dog, I’m in Australia. I miss your little dumb ass.
DREW STARKEY: I miss you, dude. How’s tour?
APOLLO: Really good. We just played Sydney last n