When Frankie Grande bounces into our Zoom meeting, he seems to radiate enough energy to power a small city. The self-proclaimed “gayest person on earth” is about to release his debut album and he’s turned all the way up — dimmers be damned. It’s a moment that’s been “brewing and churning and bubbling” for years, and now that it’s here, Grande is doing what he does best: going all in, unapologetically queer and completely unfiltered.

At 42, the performer and activist — who previously captured our attention on “Big Brother” in 2014, as the flamboyant Frankini on Nickelodeon, and through his advocacy work with GLAAD — has finally found his sound. Drawing from the icons who shaped his childhood dance parties — Madonna, Whitney Houston and Donna Summer — and his musical-theater background, Gra

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