Day: June 4, 2026
Urge’s King’s Birthday weekend Underwear Party left very little to the imagination, with the sold-out event packing Centurian to capacity on Sunday 31 May. After demand surged and tickets disappeared eight days out, Urge Events moved the party to Centurian on Symonds Street, where partygoers embraced the brief in every sense. Jocks, briefs, boxers, harnesses […]
YOUR EX has a double pas to give away for Sugar, playing as part of the Auckland Live Cabaret Festival. From the company behind Daffodils comes a chaotic, hilarious and gloriously outrageous cabaret about Sugar, a radiantly beautiful gender-fluid twink who discovers there is money to be made from “transactional relationships”. Maybe they watched Pretty […]
YOUR EX meets the queer creative team behind SUGAR When SUGAR played Brisbane, writer Ro Bright says the politics of the show shifted in real time. “Every country we take SUGAR to, the politics around sex work, sugar culture, and the trans community is different,” Bright tells YOUR EX. “We encounter laws that take away our rights […]
Award-winning gay adult performer Drake Von has reportedly been arrested in Las Vegas after allegedly attempting to strangle his partner. According to court records seen by TMZ, Von, whose real name is Dawson Bacon, was arrested on Tuesday and charged with two felonies: domestic battery by strangulation and coercion constituting domestic violence with threat or […]
Four months after Karamo Brown skipped a live TV reunion with the rest of Netflix’s Queer Eye Fab Five, he is opening up about what he says was years of behind-the-scenes tension, toxic dynamics, bullying and the relapse that followed. Brown spoke about the experience in a new interview with People for its June cover […]
Christian pastor Joel Webbon has sparked backlash after claiming that smoking marijuana makes men “spiritually gay” and urging Christian men to embrace tobacco and nicotine as a path back to “masculinity”. In a video posted to X, Webbon links cannabis use to gender stereotypes and repeatedly uses “gay” as an insult. He claims marijuana “makes […]
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against the city of Denton over an upcoming Pride Month event called “Big Gay Swim Day”. The lawsuit seeks to block the 7 June event, which is scheduled to take place as a private rental at the Civic Centre pool in Denton. Paxton’s office claims the […]
Jonathan Bailey has opened up about the early fears he had around being openly gay in the entertainment industry, saying he once believed it could be a “hindrance” to his career. Speaking on 1 June at the inaugural Elton John Impact Awards, which honours LGBTQ+ community members and allies, Bailey reflected on the realities faced […]