Category: Arts & Culture
The United Kingdom is set to open its first-ever national LGBTQ+ museum in Kings Cross, London, later in 2022. The museum, which will be called Queer Britain, will explore stories, people and places that have been vital and central to the UK rainbow community. Organisers who have been working on the project since 2018 promise […]
This February, Rialto Channel is celebrating Pride with NZ television premiers of some of the most acclaimed and anticipated titles in recent queer cinema. Here are express’ top five picks of their Pride month premiers. WELCOME TO CHECHNYA | FRIDAY 4 FEBRUARY, 8.30PM In Chechnya there are no homosexuals. That is what the tyrannical leader Ramzan Kadyrov […]
Chicano (Mexican-American) actor Esaú Mora stars in Auckland Theatre Company’s first production of 2022, Grand Horizons. He talks to express about the play’s LGBT theme’s, how theatre needs to evolve and the oppression of minority groups in NZ. There are some interviews we do where immediately you know the person you’re conversing with is here […]
Gareth Watkins looks back at the final month year’s past and how December’s significant events have impacted and shaped our LGBTQ+ community. 17 December 1913 English poet Rupert Brooke arrived in Auckland aboard the ship RMS Niagara. He was only in New Zealand for a couple of weeks before departing for Tahiti. Surviving letters from […]
The list of queens for RuPaul’s Drag Race season 14 has been RuVealed and includes the series first ever cis, straight male competitor. The season 14 cast, which was unveiled by last year’s winner Symone, will feature in a two-parter first episode, kicking off on the 7th of January 2022. Among the queens to feature […]
To celebrate the second season of her hit NEON show We’re Here, Bob The Drag Queen talks to Oliver Hall about transphobia, racism and her love of the New Zealand accent. To celebrate the new season of We’re Here starting on NEON, express was invited to join a round table Zoom interview where international media […]
The Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra’s (APO) Principal Clarinettist Jonathan Cohen is a third-generation New Orleans Clarinet player and he will be part of the first concert the APO has ever presented as part of the Auckland Pride Festival. He talks to us about this and the APO’s upcoming 2022 Season. What does it mean to you […]
Star of Super City, The Breaker Upperers and The Great Kiwi Bake Off, Madeleine Sami discusses Lockdown life, anti-vax anxiety, her marriage to Ladyhawke and planning for a second child! “Excuse my shiny face, I’ve just been running around setting up a tent for my daughter,” says a glowing Sami as we are introduced over […]