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Malaysian festival wants The 1975 to pay $2million in damages

Malaysian festival wants The 1975 to pay $2million in damages

Malaysia’s Good Vibes Festival wants British band The 1975 to pay $2million in damages over the fallout of an onstage protest where lead singer Matty Healy kissed one of the other band members. The band made an onstage protest at the festival in July 2023 making a stance against the country’s anti-LGBTIQA+ laws. Healy slammed […]

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Kim Wilde is set to tour Australia and play all her greatest hits

Kim Wilde is set to tour Australia and play all her greatest hits

Eighties music legend Kim Wilde has announced an Australian tour for later this year. Wilde will make her long awaited return to Australian shores with her first tour in eight years and will deliver a nostalgic and memorable Greatest Hits package. The much-loved singer had a sting of hits in the 80’s and 90’s including Kids In America, You […]

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The final Australian tour from Gladys Knight begins in Perth next week

The final Australian tour from Gladys Knight begins in Perth next week

Gladys Knight has certainly earned her moniker as the Empress of Soul, she a seven time Grammy winner, the voice behind many memorable hits and even recorded a Bond theme. But the song LGBTIQA+ audiences love her for is That’s What’s Friends Are For, her 1985 charity single alongside Dionne Warwick, Elton John and Stevie Wonder raised […]

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Miriam Margolyes returns to ABC with ‘Impossibly Australian’

The inimitable Miriam Margolyes is returning to the ABC with her new series, Miriam Margolyes: Impossibly Australian. The series explores Miriam’s reflections after a recent heart operation in London, pondering what her future might hold. Ignoring advice to slow down, Miriam has returned down under to a place she calls her second home. To Miriam, Australia […]

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First look images of the TV series ‘Invisible Boys’ released

First look images of the TV series ‘Invisible Boys’ released

The TV adaptation of Holden Sheppard’s popular YA novel Invisible Boys is currently filming in Geraldton, and the first images from the set have just been released. Helmed by Logie and AACTA award-winning creator/director Nicholas Verso and based on Western Australian author Holden Sheppard’s multi-award winning novel, Invisible Boys is a 10-episode LGBTQIA+ drama series starring Joseph Zada (Total Control), […]

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New event: Queer Story Night begins this week at the Centre for Stories

The first outing of the Centre for Stories’ Queer Story Night will begin this week on Thursday 14th March. The monthly storytelling evening will provide a space for the LGBTQIA+ community to share and craft stories together. Group members will have the opportunity to learn the craft of spoken word storytelling and writing, in a safe and supportive space. […]

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Bibliophile | C L Miller presents ‘The Antique Hunter’s Guide to Murder’

The Antique Hunter’s Guide to Murder by C L Miller Macmillan Author Cara Miller started working in publishing as an editorial assistant for her mother Judith Miller, who was a regular specialist on the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow. She worked on Judith’s Antiques Handbook and Price Guide and then worked as a researcher for the Antique […]

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Bibliophile | ‘The Women’ tells stories of those who weren’t allowed

The Women by Kristin Hannah Macmillan Francis ‘Frankie’ McGrath had recently graduated as a nurse in 1966 when her older brother Finley volunteered to do his part in the Vietnam War – continuing the long tradition of the men in their family serving their country in various wars and being awarded for their valour. Frankie […]

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Review | Award-winning documentary ‘Four Daughters’ a must-see

Review | Award-winning documentary ‘Four Daughters’ a must-see

Four Daughters | Dir: Kaouther Ben Hania | ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The film opens with Olfa, a Tunisian woman who is the mother of four daughters, addressing the camera. Olfa is with her two youngest daughters Eya and Tayssir while she recalls for the camera that the two eldest daughters “were devoured by a wolf”. In […]

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Review | A love triangle emerges after the war in ‘Along Came Love’

Along Came Love | Dir: Katell Quillévéré | ★ ★ ★ ★  This moving film starts with black and white archival footage of American soldiers celebrating the end of World War II in the streets of a French village. It also shows extremely distressing footage of how the women were dealt with if they had had liaisons […]

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