In a Canberra first, Free-Rain Theatre Company is presenting the internationally celebrated musical & Juliet in 2026. The production boldly asks: What if Juliet’s story didn’t end with Romeo?
Heralding the team’s expansion into live events all across Australia, TRANSGENRE Volume III will take over the UniBar in Kaurna/Adelaide on Saturday May 23, 2026. It’ll be an all-ages event with doors opening at 12pm, and for the first time in the festival’s history, tickets will be FREE!
Once, “Are you a friend of Dorothy?” was a coded question asked in shadows; in Lee Knight’s Oscar-nominated short, it becomes a quiet bridge between generations as Miriam Margolyes’ Dorothy offers a young JJ (Alistair Nwachukwu) not answers, but something rarer – the space to see himself reflected and safe, in a living room filled with books, paintings and unspoken understanding.
THIS REVIEW AT A GLANCE
The film centres on an unexpected friendship between elderly widow Dorothy and 17-year-old JJ after his football lands in her garden.
JJ’s silent reaction to a painting of a half‑naked…
The ACT Government is recruiting for the LGBTIQA+ Ministerial Advisory Council. Your voice could help shape the future. We’re looking for a Chair, Deputy Chair, and members (including an identified Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander position) who are passionate about driving progress for our communities. If you’ve got heart, vision, and a flair for advocacy, we want to hear from you. Applications close 9 am, 7 April 2026
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What the Council Does
We advise the ACT Government on issues affecting LGBTIQA+ communities in the ACT.
The LGBTIQA+ Ministerial Advisory Council (the C…
In the early 1980s, as the AIDS crisis devastated communities and governments turned away, queer people were forced to fight not just for survival, but for dignity. In The Normal Heart, Larry Kramer’s searing and deeply human play, that fight takes centre stage.
“The Normal Heart is a celebration of raising one’s voice and fighting for causes you believe in.” – FUSE Magazine.
The number of bills directly targeting and undermining the existing legal rights of transgender and nonbinary people in the U.S. has been escalating, with sharp increases since 2021 and with each consecutive year. Kansas dealt the most radical blow yet on Feb. 26, 2026, as a law that immediately invalidates state-issued driver’s licenses, identification cards and birth certificates for holders whose gender marker does not match their sex assigned at birth took effect overnight.
Wear your pyjamas. Bring a squishy toy — or a curious friend. Settle in for.. Bedtime Tales told by Sex Workers is an intimate, inclusive evening of readings, monologues, short sketches and sharp-witted performance created and presented by sex workers. Part salon, part sleepover, part civic intervention, the event invites audiences to hear first-person stories drawn from memoir and lived experience — stories that are by turns funny, tender, confronting and deeply human.
ESHU is Australian, it’s streamlined, and it’s clearly made for people who want to look good without turning their bathroom into a lab. Two products – an exfoliator and a moisturiser – and you’re done.
The ABC journalists consulted and interviewed me for the piece, including showing me all the videos they’d obtained. The vision was sickening – but not surprising.
