In a Canberra first, Free-Rain Theatre Company is presenting the internationally celebrated musical & Juliet in 2026. The production boldly asks: What if Juliet’s story didn’t end with Romeo?
Equality Australia has updated its US travel advice for LGBTIQ+ Australians as the Trump administration rolls out new anti-trans policies in visa and border processes. The warning says some travellers face serious risks, especially people with an X gender marker, updated gender documents or a visible history of activism.
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Equality Australia has updated its US travel advice for LGBTIQ+ Australians.
The warning responds to new anti-trans visa and border rules in the United States.
Transgender travellers face the most serious risk.
People with visible LGBTIQ+…
Over the past two years, viral clips, news headlines and TV series such as Adolescence have ensured much of the public has encountered the heterosexual “manosphere” – an online ecosystem that repackages misogyny, anti-feminism and straight male grievance as self-improvement and hustle.
Zanele Muholi cements their global influence. South African visual activist Zanele Muholi’s celebrated work centres the lives and experiences of Black lesbians and trans people. For more than two decades Muholi has used photography to courageously open space for queer representation within and outside of art galleries in South Africa and across the world.
Muholi uses the non-binary pronouns they/them/their and prefers the term “visual activist” over “artist” or “photographer”. This makes it clear that their work is explicitly political and is intended to bring about change through transformi…
Following her sold out tour-de-force performances in 2023 and at Adelaide Cabaret Festival in 2024, the highly anticipated return of Dame Lisa Simone to Australia is coming in 2026, to reprise the iconic classics of her mother, Dr Nina Simone, as only she can.
Lisa Simone’s voice and stage prowess has not only earned her worldwide recognition, but practically every accolade, including Oscar-nominations, Emmy and Peabody Awards, two-time Grammy nominations, starring roles on Broadway, and chart-topping albums.
She premiered the Disney roles of Aida (Aida) and Nala (The Lion King) and won the…
I must say I was a bit excited when I was asked to test the new Bumzzy Butt Shaver 2.0 for FUSE Magazine. As a gay man who likes to be smooth where it counts, shaving my body has always been a bit of a complicated chore that is often fraught with danger. I had seen the Bumzzy Butt Shaver pop up on my socials, and I was keen to see if it would live up to all the hype.
Everyone's favourite Anti-Queer Christian Conservative, Cory Bernardi, is back in the headlines. The former disgraced Liberal senator who quit federal politics nearly a decade ago has won a South Australian Legislative Council seat for One Nation, after a tight preference count.
Welcome to 1956, where the quiches are pristine, the cardigans are pressed… and every woman in the room might be harbouring a deliciously scandalous secret.
