Fridae meets the Indigo Girls, the celebrated lesbian folk rock music duo from the US who just made their Asian performance debut in Singapore on Mar 16.
Fridae speaks to Singapore's up and coming talent DJ Big Kid who will play an opening set for Superstar DJ/ Producer Tony Moran at the Lah! Mardi Gras Festival.
Not one, but two Singapore theatre companies will soon be staging Oscar Wilde's famed comedy The Importance of Being Earnest: Buds Theatre from Feb 19 to 22, and Wild Rice from Mar 25 to Apr 11. Fridae looks back at the history of gay scandal that surrounds the play, and its enduring popularity.
After a widely acclaimed run at the recent Hong Kong City Festival, Hong Kong-born Australian Rick Lau is set to return on Feb 20 and 21 with My Queer Valentine in which tunes by gay song writers about their loves, lives and struggles are "revealed".
Sean Penn's performance as gay rights activist and California's first openly gay elected official has earned him a Best Actor nomination; Gus Van Sant is nominated for Best Director and Dustin Lance Black for Original Screenplay.
Want to get married as soon as gay marriage laws are passed? But be careful of what you wish for, says Nigel Collett in his review of Nona Shepphard's play The Marriage Bed - now showing in Hong Kong - in which audiences are brought face to face with the realities of being married.
Specially commissioned for this year's M1 Singapore Fringe Festival, Raised as a Pack of Wolves continues Singaporean lesbian artist Genevieve Chua's explorations of queer visibility and sexuality.
Ryan T. Smith and Wendy Rein from San Francisco's RAWdance who are performing in Singapore as part of M1 Singapore Fringe Festival tells more about their performance Fallout, narrow-minded 'conservative' family values and politics.