Category: People

May 31
Hall or Nothing

From a Broadway actor to pop star to Beyonce’s choreographer with his own reality show –Todrick Hall has done it all! He talks to Oliver Hall about taking advice from bestie Taylor Swift, being gay on American Idol and if being black held him back from Glee. Todrick Hall calls express from Tucson, Arizona, where […]

May 31
Basement: A gentlemen’s tea room and more…

Tim Owen went to Basement last weekend, anybody else? Maybe you recognized him, he was the guy handcuffed in the passageway. Kidding. He was at the glory holes. Still kidding.  Tim explains that he was there for work, to meet Neil and Stuart who’ve owned the place for 14 years, first located in Norwich street […]

May 17
New Netflix Series ‘AJ and the Queen’ to Star RuPaul

American drag queen, actor, model, singer, songwriter, television personality, and author, RuPaul will soon feature on the Netflix series titled AJ and the Queen. The ten-episode one-hour long, comedy series starring RuPaul, focuses on the life of Ruby Red a “bigger-than-life but down-on-her-luck drag queen who travels across America from club to club in a rundown 1990’s […]

May 16
Courtney Act Stars in New Ending HIV Campaign

Hot on the heels of her Celebrity Big Brother UK win, drag superstar Courtney Act is taking her quest to educate the world about LGBT+ issues to the next level, collaborating with Ending HIV about advances in HIV treatments. Formed on the basis of the latest scientific evidence that concludes, people living with HIV who are […]

May 14
Sam Smith Releases New Music Video for ‘Pray’

Openly gay, English singer-songwriter, Sam Smith has released his latest music video for the remixed version of “Pray” featuring rapper Logic. The video, which is directed by Joe Connor, was filmed at the Villa Erba near Lake Como, in Italy, and features scenes of a group of dancers, a man covered in butterflies, and a man on […]

May 07
Amanda Betts is a Force of Nature Making Huge Impact Through Fashion and Design.

Betts is a survivor of “a multitude of atrocities” and today dedicates her life to uplifting the lives of fellow survivors using her fashion legacy. Alongside Carla Jayne-Smith, Betts has raised $20,000 for the Whanganui Women’s Refuge through a pop-up fashion fundraiser, adding that while violence costs New Zealand between $4.5 and 7 billion per […]

May 07
British Prime Minister Apologises to World-Wide LGBT+ Community

Great news for the LGBT+ community – the British Prime Minister says she is sorry for the pain and suffering that her country inflicted on LGBT+ people around the world. Theresa May, the British PM, addressed the Pink News Awards in October 2017 when the  50th anniversary of the creation of the UK Sexual Offences Act, […]

Apr 09
Our Humble Heroine: Melissa Etheridge

Rock ‘n’ Roll legend Melissa Etheridge returns to NZ this month to tour with Sheryl Crow. She talks to express’ Oliver Hall about making it in LA’s lesbian music scene, coming out publicly and surviving breast cancer.   Melissa Etheridge calls express from Florida, where she’s busy packing. Not for her NZ tour with Sheryl Crow but for […]