Category: Arts & Culture
Kelly Geater discovers rainbow histories with Auckland Museum’s new audio guide. Delightful queer stories are lurking behind some artefacts in Auckland Museum’s main collection, now discoverable via the Queerseum audio guide. Freely available, the tour allows anyone to use their phone to guide themselves around the galleries on a queer treasure hunt. Each audio clip […]
express explores Prue MacDougall’s latest body of work ‘Atlas Pacifica’ which draws on the ideas and links between the male body and the exploration of New Zealand and the movement and adaptation of people. Prue MacDougall became truly immersed in her passion for art when she studied printmaking at the University of Auckland’s Elam School of Fine Art, and graduated with a Bachelor […]
British actor, director, producer and screenwriter Michaela Coel has followed up her award-winning Netflix comedy Chewing Gum with I May Destroy. Actor Paapa Essiedu tells us about playing gay personal trainer Kwame in the dark comedy-drama about rape, consent and not looking back. I May Destroy you is a frank and provocative series that explores […]
Miss Geena makes her picks of the hottest pop bops from Aotearoa and abroad! Valkyrie Slays Good Thing is the catchy AF new single from Auckland pop three-piece Valkyrie. Rebel Reid, Omer Gilroy and Brandon Haru make up this talented group who are ready to bring some much-needed sunshine to your Spotify. They have previously […]
Tamati Coffey talks to Levi Joule about his surrogacy and adoption law bill, gay conversion therapy and the importance of takatāpui for the Māori roll. Tamati Coffey doesn’t sound worried. When it comes to the general election, the first term Labour MP says he is taking his cue from “the boss” Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern […]
The latest season of the TV series Star Trek: Discovery has recognised ‘Resistance is Futile’ by announcing the shows first non-binary and transgender characters, adding to the same-sex couple already in the franchise. Star Trek Universe creator Gene Roddenberry originally had the vision of ‘celebrating diversity and inclusion’ and the show’s producers have committed to […]
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 […]