Category: Arts & Culture
Hailing from all over New Zealand and Australia, 10 queens handpicked by RuPaul herself will compete in Season 2 of Drag Race Down Under. Ahead of the premiere on TVNZ+ on Saturday 30 July, we meet our queens! With experience performing all over Australia and Canada, can Newcastle queen Molly Poppinz win it all? When did […]
Queer As Folk returns! Oliver Hall chats with cast members Ryan O’Connell, Fin Argus, Devin Way and Johnny Sibilly, about steamy scenes, surviving trauma and seafood sex! I remember Queer As Folk (QAF) debuting in 1999 like it was yesterday. I was 16, had come out to just a few of my closest friends and […]
Coming out will drive you crazy in Rialto Channel’s chilling lesbian thriller Make Up which premieres at 8.30pm on Friday 15 July! Ever feel like you’re being watched? That’s the feeling Writer & Director Claire Oakley weaves throughout Make Up – a remarkable, eerie and unsettling directorial debut that can be found at the halfway […]
Actor Simon Leary has given some of his career best performances under the direction of Shane Bosher, so the excitement was palpable when Auckland Theatre Company (ATC) re-paired the two (along with Theresa Healey, Stephen Lovatt and Jarod Rawiri) in the American classic, Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night, which opens tonight! He talks to […]
Jordan Quinn, the curator of the Sex Workers of Aotearoa’s A Day In The Life Of, tells us about the challenges of presenting a sex work art exhibition and the censorship of sex work on the internet. The LGBTQIA+ communities are no strangers to censorship; from “no homo laws” to same-sex relationships being deemed too […]
Making its World Premiere at the Doc Edge Festival, Disco Bloodbath is a documentary that follows Dan Veint, the man behind the drag artist, Drew Blood, as he finds a home to take his performance art to the next level. That home is Disco Bloodbath, a monthly party that shook-up Auckland queer nightlife in 2015, […]
The Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra (APO) will celebrate Matariki with one of the brightest stars of New Zealand music on Thursday 23 June. Rob Ruha will lead a night of uplifting music – Haka Soul – with world-famous rangatahi choir Ka Hao and the ātaahua tones of the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra. The powerhouse of progressive Māori […]
Partners in life and in art, British artists Gilbert & George will be exhibiting for the first time in Aotearoa with Gilbert & George: The Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland Exhibition opening at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki this July. The once queer art outcasts have become icons of British contemporary art over six decades of […]