Category: Arts & Culture
The Pose star says “shame” and fear he would lose his career forced him to stay silent. Actor Billy Porter has revealed publicly for the first time that he has been living with HIV since 2007. The Pose star says he kept his diagnosis secret for more than a decade because of ‘shame.’ Speaking […]
The kiwi drag queen’s joke on RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under is apparently unsuitable for a UK audience. A joke about Prince Andrew by kiwi queen Anita Wigl’it on RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under has been cut by the BBC. The second episode of the show saw the contestants take part in the iconic ‘Snatch […]
Genderqueer comedian China González discusses finding their fashion and voice while rejecting the world’s binary bullshit. I was never a “girl” who was into makeup, fashion or looks. In fact, I was terrified of all those things. It took some work but I eventually found the clothes and hairstyle in which I feel not just […]
ZM radio host Bree Tomasel speaks to express about quietly coming out as bisexual on-air, being an Australian in NZ, embracing Maori culture and why she loves dating Kiwis. Bree Tomasel calls express from her uber, heading to Auckland Airport, where she will fly to her parent’s Queensland house for the first time in 18 […]
Tom Sainsbury and Chris Parker are two of the most successful gay comedians New Zealand has ever produced. Here, they discuss whether sexuality affects what we find funny. Do you believe as gay men you have a specifically queer sense of humour? Chris: Well, I wouldn’t say I feel a responsibility to make all my […]
British television personality Graham Norton has hit out at what he describes as the “toxic cabal” of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK fans. Following recent moves by queens such as A’Whora and season two winner Lawrence Chaney to distanced themselves from social media, Norton who appeared as a judge on the show has raised his concern […]
Ludwig van Beethoven was baptised on 17 December 1770 and thought to have been born just a few days earlier. To honour his 250th Anniversary the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra (APO) will be performing all nine of his symphonies, plus his only opera – over five concerts! APO Music Director Giordano Bellincampi sits down with express […]
For filmmaker Eammon Ashton-Atkinson, releasing his first feature-length documentary Steelers: The World’s First Gay Rugby Club during a pandemic has been a labour of love. He sits down with the NZ Falcons’ Karl Wilshire, ahead of the film’s NZ television premiere on the Rialto Channel to discuss the unique circumstances of his film festival successes […]