ANOTHER COURT VICTORY FOR ZIM GAYS
Zimbabwe’s leading LGBT rights group gets to continue to operate following another court victory. A Harare magistrate has thrown out charges against Martha Tholanah, the chairperson of Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ), of operating the organisation illegally. She was charged, after a raid on the organisation’s offices in August 2012, with contravening the Private Voluntary Organisation (PVO) Act, […]
YEE-HAW! TEXAS GAY MARRIAGE BAN STRUCK DOWN
The judiciary across America is increasingly agreeing that state same-sex marriage bans cannot be justified. On Wednesday, US District Judge Orlando Garcia ruled that outlawing marriage for lesbian and gay couples in the deeply conservative Southern state of Texas is unconstitutional. He called the state’s voter imposed ban on same-sex marriage “state-imposed inequality” and said […]
RELIEF: ARIZONA GOVERNOR VETOES ANTI-GAY RELIGIOUS BILL
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer has vetoed a bill that would have allowed businesses to discriminate against gays and lesbians on the basis of “religious freedom.” The appalling piece of legislation was recently passed by the Republican dominated state legislature and was then sent to the governor for her approval or veto. If made law, it […]
CAN STRAIGHT MEN LIP SYNCH?
We’ve all been entertained by drag performers lip synching (sometimes with aplomb, often embarrassingly) to a variety of camp classics. And who can forget the vast line up of past contestants on RuPaul’s Drag Race dramatically “lip synching for their lives…” But straight men rarely get the privilege to do the same in public. It […]