20TH OIA JOBURG OPENING
Constitutional Court Justice Edwin Cameron opened the 20th edition of the Out in Africa Gay and Lesbian Film Festival in Johannesburg on Wednesday 16 October to a packed house. The event was attended by the who’s who from the city’s LGBT community.
CAMERON: OUR STRUGGLE’S NOT OVER
Constitutional Court Justice Edwin Cameron says that the struggle of gay and lesbian people in South Africa is far from over. The continent’s only openly gay and HIV positive judge opened the 20th edition of the Out in Africa (OIA) Gay and Lesbian Film Festival in Johannesburg on Wednesday night. In his speech, Cameron told […]
ETHICS MINISTER: GAY MARRIAGE IS BESTIALITY
Simon Lokodo, Uganda’s laughably titled Minister of Ethics and Integrity, has affirmed his commitment to eradicating homosexuality in Uganda. In an extensive interview with Uganda’s The Independent, Lokodo reveals an appalling lack of insight into democratic values and human rights, expressing a wide range of stereotyped and offensive views. He explains that his mandate includes […]
GAY SEX KILLERS SENTENCED
Two men found guilty last week of killing Barney Van Heerden during a group sexual encounter at his Johannesburg home in September 2011 learned their fate on Wednesday. Mthokozisi Ndlovu and Themba Maseko were each ordered to spend twenty years in jail for murder and ten years for robbery with aggravating circumstances, to run concurrently, […]
EMINEM BACK TO USING GAY SLURS
American hip hop superstar Eminem is once again under fire for a new track from his upcoming album The Marshall Mathers LP 2 in which he repeatedly uses anti-gay slurs. In the first verse of Rap God, the performer raps that he can “break a motherfucker’s table over the back of a couple faggots and […]
FRANCE VS SA ON GAY ISSUES
Monday’s meeting between France’s First Lady, Valerie Trierweiler, and South African LGBT groups in Johannesburg highlighted the different issues facing each country’s gay and lesbian communities, says an LGBT activist. Trierweiler was accompanied by French Justice Minister Christiane Taubira, who played a key role in legalising same-sex marriage in France. The law led to months […]