Category: Arts & Culture
Debuting on Rialto Channel as part of their Celebrate Pride season, Are You Proud? is a documentary that examines what Pride month really means and the conflicting opinions on how we should be celebrating it. express spoke exclusively to director of Are You Proud?, Ashley Joiner. Activist Ashley Joiner was motivated to create a documentary about the UK’s […]
A new gay indie film titled “Mysterious Ways” telling the story of a vicar who decides to have a forbidden Anglican wedding with his Samoan boyfriend is set to be filmed in Auckland this May. Mysterious Ways is a timely exploration of issues around faith for gay people both here in New Zealand and around […]
What’s with the name? A tribute to a fashion icon. express spoke to Famine of Beauty founder Kevin Barratt to find out what’s really behind the name? Introduce yourself, what do you do? Kia ora, I’m Kevin Barratt, ‘One Man Brand’ and founder of a glorious little 2020 lockdown start-up, Famine of Beauty. We offer a fabulous […]
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 […]