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This Pride Month, Billboard is connecting queer artists with some of their musical heroes and biggest influences How can you help LGBTQ people succeed in the music industry? One easy step: Share your networks and make introductions. So for Pride Month, Billboard is connecting queer artists with some of their musical heroes — who also happen to be major allies to the community — to get career advice. Here, rising pop star Gia Woods — who’s readying her upcoming Cut Season EP after dropping sparkling tunes like “Only a Girl” and “One Big Party” — gets tips on staying true to yourself from Nelly Furtado, who released her most recent studio album, The Ride, in 2017 (and whom Woods cites as an influence on tracks like “Naive”). Have you ever written a song that no...

This Pride Month, Billboard connected queer artists with some of their musical heroes and biggest influences How can you help LGBTQ people succeed in the music industry? One easy step: Share your networks and make introductions. So for Pride Month, Billboard is connecting queer artists with some of their musical heroes — who also happen to be major allies to the community — to get career advice. Here, RuPaul’s Drag Race alum Trixie Mattel — whose latest album, Barbara, fuses surf-rock, country and folk — gets real with Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Michelle Branch, who’s working on the follow-up to 2017’s Hopeless Romantic (and whose song “Goodbye to You” is also the first song Mattel learned to play on guitar.) I always run into other gay pe...