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‘RENT’ prompts walkout as audience member realises musical is queer

‘RENT’ prompts walkout as audience member realises musical is queer

A production in Leeds has drawn international attention after an audience member disrupted a recent performance with a homophobic outburst. UK company Bite My Thumb’s staging of RENT was interrupted in Leeds on Saturday, as a viewer declared “I didn’t realise this show was about gays”, leaving the theatre. Jonathan Larson’s musical is famously focused on […]

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Do you know all your rights as a renter or landlord?

Do you know all your rights as a renter or landlord?

A free public forum will be held in Perth on 2nd May will focus on ways to improve WA laws controlling the rights of renters and landlords. “With a third of Western Australians renting their home, and increasing numbers of people unlikely to ever own a home, it’s time to put a spotlight on fairness […]

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New ‘Star Trek’ series casts Anthony Rapp as openly gay officer

New ‘Star Trek’ series casts Anthony Rapp as openly gay officer

Rent star Anthony Rapp has signed onto the newest series in the Star Trek franchise as an openly gay Starfleet officer. Rapp will play Lieutenant Stamets in Star Trek: Discovery, an astromycologist and the series’ first original LGBT character since John Cho’s version of Hikaru Sulu was revealed to be in a same-sex relationship in J. J. […]

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