Category: Arts & Culture
To celebrate pride and our rainbow community, Rialto Channel on SKY TV Channel 39 is bringing you the New Zealand television premiere of a new LGBTQ+ documentary every Wednesday night this February at 8:30 pm. Kicking off the series, with Coby, on Wednesday the 6th of February at 8:30 pm, each documentary will be premiered […]
Bohemian Rhapsody has been officially removed as a nominee for best film in the GLAAD Media Awards, following new reports about its director and alleged sexual abuse of teenage boys. The double Golden Globe Winning film, Bohemian Rhapsody, was mostly directed by Bryan Singer, who is now facing claims of sexual assault and abuse of underage boys. Despite being nominated […]
The Fab Five have paid tribute to LGBTI icons, Beyonce, Britney Spears, and Lady Gaga on the season premiere of Lip-Sync Battle. Kicking off the 3rd season of the show, Queer Eye‘s Bobby Berk, Tan France, and Antoni Porowski got together to lip-sync Work Bitch by Britney Spears. With all three channelling their inner Britney, the trio […]
Award-winning director Shane Bosher returns to the Auckland stage with the international hit HOMOS, OR EVERYONE IN AMERICA, sponsored by express. He talks to Oliver Hall about the importance of telling contemporary queer stories. One of the hottest tickets in London last year, HOMOS, OR EVERYONE IN AMERICA is set to be one of the […]
American actor, singer, and songwriter, Darren Criss who is best known for performing Blaine Anderson on Glee and Andrew Cunanan on The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, says he will no longer be playing any gay roles. 31-year-old Criss, says that while their are certain gay roles that he would love to perform, he didn’t […]
Where Self-Exposure and Ambiguity Meet: Alea front-man Alex Farrell-Davey opens up about the personal lyrics and lack of gender pronouns on his band’s debut album Henry St. A rare offering for a first album, Henry St doesn’t easily fit within a genre label. Instead, the band focused on the overall flow of the album to create […]
As Ru Paul’s reality show shined a light on drag in mainstream culture, two kiwi queens have worked tirelessly to ensure Auckland’s appetite for drag was satisfied. From taking over cabaret restaurant Caluzzi to starting monthly event Drag Wars and performing at Family; drag duo Kita Mean (32) and Anita Wigl’it (29) have been at […]
Rupert Everett discusses LGBT politics, why he will be forever grateful to Colin Firth and the decade it took him to make Oscar Wilde Biopic, The Happy Prince. I first interviewed Rupert Everett at Sydney Mardi Gras in 2007, where he was promoting his autobiography Red Carpet’s and Other Banana Skins. It was a strange […]