Entertainment
Elliot Page files for divorce from wife Emma Portner
Actor Elliot Page and wife Emma Portner have split after three years of marriage. The pair released a joint statement today announced their split in the middle of last year. “After much thought and careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to divorce following our separation last summer,” the pair said, according to People. …
Lady Gaga addresses the COVID FOMO as Aussies club to Chromatica
Lady Gaga has given a shout out to Australia on Twitter as footage of clubgoers actually able to dance to her latest album Chromatica in our nightclubs goes viral. Over the Australia Day long weekend, Aussies posted footage to social media of crowded nightclubs blasting tracks from Lady Gaga’s 2020 album. The videos have racked …
Three local legends join Sportsman Hotel’s Drag Hall of Fame
Three more legendary Queensland performers have been inducted into the Sportsman Hotel’s Drag Hall of Fame. Every year, the Brisbane venue bestows the honour on local drag queens and showgirls, recognising their contribution to the state’s drag culture and LGBTIQ community. On Saturday night (January 23), the Sportsman Hotel team inducted Tara Ra Boom Deay, …
REVIEW: Queer drama ‘It’s A Sin’ is essential viewing
Queer representation in film and TV has thrived considerably in the last few years, and just weeks into 2021 we’ve been blessed with It’s A Sin. A five-part series from Queer As Folk creator Russell T Davies, this alternately joyous and heartbreaking drama will undoubtedly stand as one of the year’s finest productions. The series …
YouTube star JoJo Siwa has ‘never been this happy’ after coming out
YouTube superstar JoJo Siwa has said she’s “never ever been this happy” after coming out as queer to her millions of fans on social media. The 17-year-old singer, dancer and YouTube superstar first dropped hints in a TikTok video posted to her 31 million followers last week. In the video, she danced to Lady Gaga’s …
Tributes flow after gay rugby’s godmother Alice Hoagland dies
Gay rugby teams around the world have paid tribute to Mark Bingham’s mother Alice Hoagland, who died last month, as the godmother of their sport. On September 11, 2001, openly gay rugby player Mark Bingham and three other men fought back against the terrorists who had hijacked their United Airlines flight. The men stormed the …
Sexy cabaret show Club Cremorne returning to QPAC
Cabaret fans rejoice! QPAC’s sexy and stunning stage show Club Cremorne is back by popular demand from next week. The show premiered with a sold-out season last year, as one of QPAC’s first post-lockdown shows in their QPAC Unlocked program. Now from Thursday January 28, Club Cremorne is back. The stage show transforms the intimate …
Presidential pardon for celebrity animal abuser Joe Exotic?
As the world anxiously awaits the inauguration of US President-elect Joe Biden, a stretch limo sits outside a Fort Worth lawyer’s office. ‘Team Tiger’, the lawyers representing celebrity animal abuser Joe Exotic, say they booked the limo because they remain confident of a presidential pardon for the convicted felon. Joseph Allen Maldonado-Passage is currently an …
RuPaul and Michelle Visage announce ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under’
RuPaul and Michelle Visage have officially confirmed they’ll both appear on the long-awaited local spinoff, titled RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under. A few weeks ago it emerged the show would begin production in New Zealand this month. Australian drag queens from over the country had flown over and were in quarantine with RuPaul. On Tuesday, …
Bowled Over the dragumentary, SBS, starring Wanda DParke
Bowled Over the dragumentary, coming to SBS this month, follows three drag queens from Taboo at North Ipswich Bowls Club over the course of a year. A decade ago, the Taboo monthly drag show rescued the bowls club from its financial woes. Bowled Over tells the stories of three queens from Taboo, each at a …