Jun 15, 2023
THEATRE
Interview: Reuben Kaye – Caustic and Fantastic!
Audiences should brace themselves for a night of take-no-prisoners comedy cabaret when the enfant terrible of the Australian Comedy scene, Reuben Kaye makes his stage debut with his new show, ‘Live and Intimidating’.
Jun 9, 2023
Interview
Robyn Archer — Musical theatre legend and queer icon
Australian musical theatre legend and queer icon Robyn Archer AO is touring Australia with her highly anticipated new production, ‘An Australian Songbook.’
Jun 9, 2023
Review
Come from Away – Review : Feel good musical theatre
Come From Away has opened in Canberra with a sold-out opening night performance, confirming that it has been worth the wait.
Jun 2, 2023
Canberra
Ride with Pride, Canberra Trams go Rainbow!
Canberra Metro operations celebrate diversity and pride in Canberra. CMET, in collaboration with Transport Canberra, has launched a ‘Ride with Pride’ campaign that highlights the Rainbow Flag, a symbol that represents the diversity of the LGBTIQ+, and the Progress Pride Flag, which extends diversity representation further through people of colour and the transgender,gender-diverse community.
Jun 1, 2023
NOW SOLD
Own a pub at Korumburra
Have you always wanted to own a pub? Korumburra is located in the scenic rolling foothills of the Strzelecki Ranges in South Gippsland, west of Leongatha. This magnificent building offers you the best of both worlds in that it gives you a home plus a business all under one roof!!
Jun 1, 2023
LOCAL CULTURE
Venus Mantrap – Valley of the Molls
Growing up on the south side of Canberra can be a drag. Through lip-syncing, storytelling and art, drag performer Venus Mantrap attempts to make sense of the fraught landscape of adolescents in their new show Valley of the Molls.
May 31, 2023
POP CULTURE
Gay Vampires: Out of the coffin, out of the closet
There’s always been something fabulously desirable queer about vampires. Vampire stories are traditionally rife with desires and invisible secrets from their early canonisation in popular culture. But what happens when the subtext becomes the text, and vampires come out of closets as well as coffins?
May 29, 2023
Uganda
Uganda’s anti-homosexuality law based on hate
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni assented to the anti-gay bill on 26 May 2023. The new law legislates, among other things, a ten-year jail term for attempted same-sex acts, a 20-year jail term for promotion of homosexuality, a life sentence for the offence of homosexuality and a death penalty for aggravated homosexuality. Previously there has been been historical surveillance and targetting of queer people in Uganda, but no penalties nearly as harsh as this.
May 29, 2023
ARTS & CULTURE
Burlesque is changing lives and thriving in our community
*Misbehaving is, of course, a highly personal concept, especially regarding Burlesque and the art of the tease, when being bad becomes not only empowering but also tantalisingly fun.