Category: Arts & Culture
Star’s of Silo’s Here Lies Love: Jennifer Ward-Lealand, Ria Hall and Colleen Davies discuss what it means to be a diva. For their end of year show, SILO theatre have made an intriguing avant-garde choice: Fat Boy Slim and David Bryne’s Here Lies Love, a concept album based on the life of the former first […]
Call it divine intervention, but Sam Smith has a habit of pulling off the impossible. After his first album In The Lonely Hour was an international critical and commercial success, pundits suggested there was no way his second LP, The Thrill of It All, could be better. Yet Smith crafted a masterpiece that was somehow […]
Kiwi music’s queer revolution is here! To celebrate the release of their next singles, Julia and Maude Morris of dream-pop duo LEXXA spoke with their sometimes co-collaborator, biggest fan and best friend Possum Plows, lead vocalist for Kiwi powerpop band Openside. “I feel like we’re only just starting to get into the sweet spot,” said […]
Netflix has just released its first NSFW trailer for their anticipated upcoming animated drag queen series Super Drags. The new series which premieres on Netflix on November 9 features the voices of RuPaul’s Drag Race alumni Trixie Mattel, Shangela, Willam, and Ginger Minj as the ladies save the world. Describing the show Netflix say:“During the […]
The Nominees for prestigious NZ Comedy Awards the 2019 Billy T’s were released yesterday. The majority of nominees come from the queer community with James Mustapic, Ray Shipley and Tom Sainsbury all nominated, alongside Kura Forrester and Donna Brookbanks. James Mustapic (best known for his web series’ Shorty Street Scandal and Repressed Memories) has a […]
American singer/songwriter, Kelly Clarkson has been brought to tears after a gay couple’s audition on The Voice. The singing duo titled, OneUp, which includes Adam and Jerome, performed Could It Be I’m Falling in Love by The Spinners. While the due’s vocals caused Kelly Clarkson, Jennifer Hudson, and Blake Shelton to turn their chairs around in approval, Adam and Jerome soon […]
Auckland Museum is the first Museum in New Zealand to have been awarded the Rainbow Tick, an external audit and quality improvement programme designed to help an organisation to be a safe, welcoming and inclusive place for people of diverse gender identity and sexual orientation. “The Museum encourages diversity in the workplace and sees real value in embracing people from a […]
Mika says LGBT icon Carmen Rupe had sexual relations with a number of high profile All Blacks. Mika made the claims while on Maori TV’s Native Affairs program, promoting his new book I Have Loved Me A Man. The entertainer says Carmen Rupe was a mentor of his and says he knows the name of […]