Category: People
For most, she is relatively unknown, but 24-year-old Courtney Perham, a young Kiwi designer, has a bright future ahead of her and she’s breaking all the gender norms to get there. express sat down with Perham to talk about her inspirations behind creating her own line and what it means to her to be breaking […]
We chat with Eli Matthewson, the little gay rock star of New Zealand comedy, ahead of his show in the 2017 New Zealand International Comedy Festival. Firstly, how did you come up with that magnificent title, The Year of Magical Fucking? I read a bunch of stupid articles about how millennials are having less sex […]
Australian singer-songwriter Troye Sivan will make history tomorrow, Saturday 1 April, as he is honoured at the 28th Annual GLAAD Media Awards. Since beginning his career with YouTube videos nearly a decade ago, Sivan has become a powerful voice in promoting equality. Now his work in the LGBT+ community has earned him a spot in history […]
It’s safe to say that Charlie Tredway is a force to be reckoned with. He has been a prolific HIV advocate, both here and further afield and he was recently crowned Mr Gay NZ 2017. However, every high has its lows and Tredway experienced the ugly side of advocacy when he became a target in […]
express talks to Kyle Jardine, arguably South Africa’s hottest export and cast-member of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat. What made you want to get into theatre? I was fortunate enough to be exposed and involved in theatre from a young age, from school productions, to watching shows and musicals on our local stages and, […]
The celebration of Richard O’Brien’s 75th birthday, 75 Years of Frock N Roll, raising thousands of dollars for Starship Hospital, was a glam spectacular worthy of the man who revolutionised musicals with his Rocky Horror Show, which still packs out theatres worldwide more than 40 years after it was first penned! The audience dazzled in sequins, feathers […]
Germany’s cabinet has just approved a bill stating that all convicted gay men who were prosecuted after World War 2 will have their convictions overturned. Any gay man that was convicted between 1949 – 1969 who are still alive can expect to receive financial compensation for any suffering that they endured under the legislation. This […]
One can’t help but envy Richard O’Brien, a man that not only lived through London’s gritty glory days of the ’60s and ’70s, but in part, created them with his explosive, addictive stage production, musical, and then movie, the iconic cult classic, The Rocky Horror Show. It evokes a time of black and white nostalgia, […]