In recent months in Australia, we have seen vigilante racism in Rockhampton, booing, abuse and vitriol directed at First Nations footy players, and the appalling treatment of First Nations children jailed in adult prisons. Racism is a major issue in the debate over the proposed First Nations Voice to Parliament – and it will likely only continue to get worse.
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’.
Australian musical theatre legend and queer icon Robyn Archer AO is touring Australia with her highly anticipated new production, ‘An Australian Songbook.’
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.
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.
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?
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.
*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.
