Category: Arts & Culture
The website says “homosexual and homosexuality are now associated with pathology, mental illness, and criminality, and so imply that being gay—a normal way of being—is sick, diseased, or wrong.” Dictionary.com has issued a significant update, including replacing the word ‘homosexual.’ In issuing the update, Dictonary.com says “the unprecedented events of 2020, from the pandemic to the (George Floyd) […]
For the first time, Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande have performed their hit duet Rain On Me, during the first fully-virtual MTV Video Music Awards. Donning face coverings, Gaga and Grande delivered the performance live together for the first time with a performance that’s being described as iconic. The performance starts off Showing Gaga, snug […]
Streaming giant Netflix has given fans a sneak-peak of its new adaptation of the 1968 gay stage play The Boys in the Band, starring Jim Parsons from The Big Bang Theory. The story written in 1968 by the late playwright Mart Crowley follows the lives and personal dramas of a group of gay men who meet […]
New research on William Shakespeare has concluded that the legendary playwright was “undeniably bisexual” putting to rest years of speculation and debate. Professor Sir Stanley Wells and Dr. Paul Edmonson who conducted the research analysed the 182 sonnets Shakespeare wrote from around 1578 onwards and found that, while ten were written for women, 27 were actually […]
Keegan Elliot profiles five of our hottest local drag talents. Bunny Holiday Bunny Holiday is Wellington’s ‘It Girl’. She takes inspiration from early 2000’s socialites like Paris Hilton. Bunny wants to spread the message of confidence and feeling your self-worth. The first exposure Bunny had to drag was when she watched the movie Party Monster […]
Royal New Zealand Ballet ASCENDS stages across the country AGAIN with Venus Rising. The Royal New Zealand Ballet (RNZB) will be one of the first ballet companies in the world to rise from the artistic decimation of the global pandemic and return to the stage with an audience on 20 August. Four extraordinary works created […]
In a new interview about the trilogy, ‘The Matrix’ co-director Lilly Wachowski has confirmed that the popular sci-fi series is a transgender allegory. The interview comes as filming on the fourth movie in the series which had begun in San Francisco in February has been halted due to COVID-19, forcing the release date back until […]
On Thursday 20 August, Jean Paul Gaultier: Freak & Chic – a documentary that takes an intimate behind the scenes look at the outrageous retrospective fashion musical the designer created – debuts on The Rialto Channel. In celebration, Oliver Hall talks to the legendary fashion designer about his inspirations, career highlights and who could play […]