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The Boyfriend: an innovative gay Japanese dating show
Netflix’s new reality show The Boyfriend has been making waves and starting conversations both inside and outside Japan as viewers follow the story of nine gay and bisexual male housemates who live and work together.
Betty Grumble’s ‘Enemies of Grooviness’: A subversive celebration
Acclaimed performance artist Emma Maye Gibson, aka Betty Grumble, discusses her acclaimed show, ‘Enemies of Grooviness Eat Sh!t,’ set to hit the Canberra Theatre in September as part of the Valance performance series.
Gay Disco Glory, let's queer it up!
Listen to 25 of the best Retro Pride Anthems that defined queer culture in the 70s, 80s and 90's. Enjoy!
Trophy Boys – An unfiltered look at modern masculinity with a twist!
Featuring a cast of female and non-binary performers in drag, the work uses queering as a playful and powerful tool to interrogate the well-documented culture of toxic masculinity, misogyny and internalised homophobia in elite boys schools.
New Aussie gay thriller plays one-night only in Canberra
In The Room Where He Waits is the haunting debut gay film from award-winning local Australian filmmaker Timothy Despina Marshall.
Navigating horizons: Sani Townson’s dance journey
Sani Townson, artist, dancer, and theatremaker, shares his personal, cultural, and artistic journey on stages across Australia. Ahead of the Bangarra Dance Theatre's new masterpiece ‘Horizon’ Sani spoke with FUSE about this amazing show and his artistic influences.
Netflix’s 'Ripley'... mesmerising or charmless
Netflix’s Moody Fresh Take! The eight-episode adaptation, an Italy-set black-and-white thriller about the gay eponymous grifter turned sociopath. Depending on whom you ask, 'Ripley' is either “mesmerizing” or “charmless”.
A reflection of my queer life
Queer Canberra artist Louis Grant uses fluid mediums to speak of social and psychological spaces that can themselves be seen as 'unstable compounds'. He is currently exhibiting at Tuggeranong Arts Centre.
The Power of Queer Storytelling
FUSE was super excited to have a heart-to-heart with queer screenwriter, director and multidisciplinary visual artist Samuel Leighton-Dore.