Category: Interviews

Articles Culture Interviews Long Reads Mighty Hoopla Music News Originals Rita Ora Taika Waititi

Getting “freaky and destructive” with Rita Ora

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Rita Ora speaks with GAY TIMES about her summer banger ‘Ask & Ye Shall Receive’, her “risky” new era and – very important – Taika Waititi’s stance on pop music. WORDS BY SAM DAMSHENAS PHOTOGRAPHY BY ROSIE MATHESON Five UK chart-toppers, a black bob-assisted S&M film trilogy appearance and six seasons of speculating whether [insert kooky beast here] is [insert iconic singer here] later… Rita Ora is finally entering her ‘weird’ era. In the visual for her infectious summer banger ‘Ask & Ye Shall Receive’, the multi-hyphenate embraces her inner Harley…

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Articles Culture Interviews Long Reads Mighty Hoopla Music News Originals

Mighty Hoopla’s Queertopia acts celebrate “liberating” new stage

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Mighty Hoopla, the UK’s ultimate pop extravaganza, is back for a seventh year with its most insane line-up of pop icons and queer trailblazers. The event, which takes place annually in Brockwell Park, London, has previously featured industry legends such as Anastasia, Kelly Rowland, Natasha Bedingfield, Kelis, Sugababes and Sister Sledge. The line-up for this year’s pop spectacle is – once again – major, with performances from Jessie Ware, En Vogue, Slayyyter, Rita Ora, Eve, Rebecca Black, Alison Goldfrapp, Jojo Siwa, Rachel Stevens, Bambie Thug, The Veronicas, Bananarama, Cher Lloyd…

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Articles Canada's Drag Race Culture Drag Drag Race HBO Interviews LGBTQ+ TV Long Reads News Originals Priyanka Television We're Here World Of Wonder WOW Presents Plus

From Drag Race to We’re Here, Queen Priyanka is here to stay (and slay)

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Queen Priyanka discusses her role on HBO’s We’re Here, her debut album DEVASTATIA and why she’s finally “so proud to be Brown”. WORDS BY SAM DAMSHENAS PHOTOGRAPHY BY FERNANDO CYSNEIROS, NICK MERZETTI AND SHAUN VADELLA “That’s a good word to use,” Queen Priyanka says after I highlight how she’s “slaughtered” her post-Canada’s Drag Race career. Truly, it’s apt when you reflect on the various achievements of Drag Race’s first Indo-Caribbean champion, a few of which I will list now: first drag queen to cover Elle Canada; 15 million streams for her debut…

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Articles Canada's Drag Race Culture Drag Race Interviews Long Reads Music Nelly Furtado News Originals

‘I’m really serving right now’: Nelly Furtado talks new album, Drag Race and gays

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Nelly Furtado speaks exclusively with GAY TIMES about her ‘sexy, confident and cool’ new album, Mighty Hoopla and her history with the LGBTQIA+ community. WORDS BY SAM DAMSHENAS SPECIAL THANKS TO STEPHANIE DUNCAN-BOSU “I really think I’m serving,” says Nelly Furtado. We can confirm that that is quite correct: over the past year, the Canadian Prime Minister of Pop, Folk-Pop and Urban [insert any genre here, really] has been having a well-deserved resurgence (thank f**k) with her exhilarating techno-house anthem ‘Eat Your Man’ and the Tove Lo, SG Lewis-assisted dance banger…

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Articles Culture Heartbreak High Interviews James Majoos LGBTQ+ TV Netflix News Originals Television Will McDonald

‘Darren and Ca$h are endgame’: Heartbreak High stars share season 3 hopes

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Spoilers ahead for Heartbreak High season 2. James Majoos and Will McDonald are hoping for some “stability” for their beloved Heartbreak High couple in an unconfirmed (hurry up Netflix!) third season. The stars respectively play Darren Rivers and Douglas “Ca$h” Pigott on the Australian teen drama, which follows the students of Hartley High as they navigate various issues surrounding sexuality, identity, race, consent, assault and – duh – teen angst. A soft-reboot of the trailblazing 1994 series of the same name, Heartbreak High made its debut in 2022 before embarking…

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Articles Chrishell Stause Culture G Flip Interviews LGBTQ+ TV Long Reads Netflix News Originals Selling Sunset Television

‘My life is stranger than fiction’: Chrishell on Selling Sunset, G-Flip and coming out

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Chrishell Stause discusses Selling Sunset season eight, her “fierce protectiveness” over partner G-Flip and her upcoming London show, Up Close and Personal.  WORDS BY ALICE MOREY HEADER BY YOSEF PHELAN When we see the glossed, polished Chrishell Stause dealing in “multi-million dollar homes” on Selling Sunset, it’s damn near impossible to envisage her life any other way. Before she was one of the world’s  most stylish realtors (in addition to being an Emmy-nominated actress), however, Stause felt “extreme shame” over her experiences with homelessness – a fact she has discussed at large…

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9-1-1 Articles Buddie Culture Interviews LGBTQ+ TV News Oliver Stark Originals Ryan Guzman Television

9-1-1: Oliver Stark supports Buddie romance if it happens “naturally”

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Oliver Stark is in favour of a romance between his and Ryan Guzman‘s 9-1-1 characters if “the story naturally progresses in that way”. Ever since the introduction of Guzman’s firefighter and paramedic Edmundo “Eddie” Diaz” in the procedural drama’s second season, fans have passionately shipped him with Stark’s beloved mainstay Evan “Buck” Buckley, affectionally referring to them under the ship name “Buddie”. With season seven introducing a bisexual storyline for Buck, fans are more determined than ever to see Buddie become a reality. In an interview with GAY TIMES, Stark said he…

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9-1-1 Articles Buck Buddie Culture Interviews LGBTQ+ TV Long Reads News Oliver Stark Originals Ryan Murphy Television

9-1-1 star Oliver Stark on Buck’s bisexuality and why Buddie fans ‘aren’t wrong’

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9-1-1 star Oliver Stark speaks exclusively with GAY TIMES about Buck’s bisexuality journey, his chemistry with Ryan Guzman and whether Buddie “will end up going there”. WORDS BY SAM DAMSHENAS PHOTOGRAPHY BY WIL COHEN “I do believe, or at least hope, they seem to be dying out,” laughs Oliver Stark. The British actor is manifesting the much-needed and deserved extinction of 9-1-1’s anti-LGBTQIA+ mob, who were – sadly, but predictably – out in full force after his mainstay character Evan “Buck” Buckley embraced his status as a bi-con in the procedural…

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Articles Baby Reindeer Culture Interviews LGBTQ+ TV Long Reads Nava Mau Netflix News Originals Richard Gadd Television

Baby Reindeer stars on how their new Netflix thriller is unlike anything else

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Richard Gadd and Nava Mau speak exclusively with GAY TIMES about Baby Reindeer’s trailblazing portrayal of sexual abuse and the trans experience. Warning: major spoilers ahead. WORDS BY SAM DAMSHENAS HEADER BY YOSEF PHELAN Richard Gadd is, understandably, quite nervous. This week sees the release of his Netflix series Baby Reindeer, a “comedic psychological thriller” (as he describes it) based on his acclaimed one-man play and Edinburgh Fringe hit of the same name that dramatises the queer comedian’s harrowing true experience of being stalked by a middle-aged woman named Martha (Jessica Gunning). “What’s the…

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Articles Interviews Lesbian Visibility Week LGBTQ+ News Life Nancy Kelley News Originals

‘The UK has become a cautionary tale about how far and fast a country can fall on LGBTQIA+ rights’

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Philip Baldwin speaks with Nancy Kelley, Director of Lesbian Visibility Week, about the 2024 celebration and the current issues facing the LGBTQIA+ community in the UK. WORDS BY PHILIP BALDWIN HEADER BY YOSEF PHELAN Nancy Kelley is an award winning LGBTQIA+ and human rights campaigner. She continues to be at the forefront of the LGBTQIA+ rights movement and is the Director of Lesbian Visibility Week. I asked Nancy which women inspire her? I get a lot of inspiration from LGBTQIA+ women and other marginalised women just living their day-to-day lives. I…

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