The first Singapore Biennale, an international contemporary art festival, is on from 4 September to 12 November 2006. Fridae interviews three openly gay artists participating in the Biennale: the Filipinos Jos Legaspi and Yason Banal, as well as Australian Philip Brophy.
LA-based DJ De Len who's making his Asian debut at Nation in Phuket talks to nightlife writer Tony Giampetruzzi about the DJ industry in the US, and taking risks and trying new things to deliver a fresh experience for Nation partygoers.
China's first out lesbian artist, who also operates Beijing's longest-running dyke bar, has released her first single "Ai bu fen" (爱不分) along with a music video depicting two women in love.
Tony Moran is, by every measure, a talent that sets him apart from the rest. He tells Fridae about the "special mixes" he is going to debut at Nation.VI in October, his recurring discomfort from an old stab wound, and how the turntables and writing "You're So Beautiful" with Donna Summer and other material changed him.
With a new three week-long festival of Singapore plays starting today, theatre critic Ng Yi-Sheng reflects on how the gay theatre of the early 90s may have made a key difference in the cultural shift toward a society more accepting of homosexuality.
One of the greatest, gayest, most deliciously decadent musicals ever made, Cabaret is coming to Singapore from July 22 - 30, directed by Beatrice Chia and starring Taiwanese pop legend Fei Xiang in the flamboyantly pansexual role of the Emcee.
Singapore's favourite lesbian contest Femme Quest rolls around next week. Like mainstream beauty pageants, it has been accused of buying into the objectification of women. Is it ultimately empowering, not only for contestants themselves, but also for the (lesbian) audience? In partaking in the spectacle, is it an act of subversion or betrayal?
Singapore cinema's wonderboy Royston Tan has just released his new homoerotic film 4:30. He tells Fridae about his plans to make a full-fledged gay movie and a women's movie, and what he once did to his crushee when he was drunk.
The Marriage of Figaro is the union of a clever, satirical play about the foibles of lovers and the presumptions of class. It will be sung by an internationally acclaimed all-Asian cast accompanied by the Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra and the Singapore Lyric Opera Chorus at the Esplanade Theatre from 14 - 17 July 2006. Find out what lead star Fukushima-born Teppei Kono would do should he forget his lines.
To coincide with the release of DC Comic's new Wonder Woman #1 this week, Fridae's Alvin Tan explores the gay appeal of the star-spangled super-heroine and modestly explains why he is the best person to play the Amazing Amazon in Joss Whedon's Wonder Woman (2007).
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