GAYS SHINE IN FLEUR DE CAP NOMINATIONS
Facebook was very busy with congratulatory postings from, for and among SA’s theatre fraternity when the nominees for the past year’s Fleur Du Cap Theatre Awards were recently announced. This year marks the 49th annual awards ceremony that will take place at the Baxter Theatre on Sunday, 16 March. This fabulous event is a highlight […]
BUBBLEGUM PARTY GALLERY
Jozi’s second Bubblegum gay party blew up at the Sands in Sandton recently. Check out all the hotties, courtesy of photographer Andrew Biddy Horne.
THE CURIOUS CASE OF QUEERS IN AFRICA
This needs to be said. Even if being queer were un-African, even if it were a “choice”, it is not a basis on which people should be denied basic, or any, human rights. Let alone be pulled from their homes, assaulted and taken to the police station by an angry mob, as is reported to […]
FIREFIGHTERS IN TROUBLE OVER SPOOF VIDEO
A group of French firefighters are in trouble for making a fun parody video to Canadian singer Carly Rae Jepsen’s smash hit Call Me Maybe. The song has over the last couple of years spawned a number of spoof videos (based on a Miami Dolphins Cheerleaders clip) featuring shirtless men in uniform around the world, including […]
SENIOR CATHOLIC CARDINAL REJECTS UGANDAN LAW
In the first significant comment on Uganda’s anti-gay law by the Vatican since its enactment, a senior cardinal – who is considered a papal contender – has criticised the draconian legislation. Cardinal Peter Turkson, who is from Ghana and is the president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, said on Tuesday that gay […]
BRITISH DOCS SLAM UGANDA’S “BAD SCIENCE” ON GAYS
The British Medical Association (BMA) has described Uganda’s “scientific” justification for its anti-gay law as “bad science.” Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said he was persuaded to sign the bill last week after he consulted scientists and medical experts who said homosexuality was behavioural, not genetic “and could be unlearnt.” At the signing of the bill, […]
ATTORNEY GENERAL: “I WON’T DEFEND DISCRIMINATION”
The attorney general of Kentucky has defied the state’s governor and in a remarkable and moving speech has refused to defend a ban on same-sex marriage in court. Last month, US District Court Judge John G. Heyburn II ruled that Kentucky’s gay marriage ban violates the constitutional principal of equal protection. The ruling was suspended […]
DON’T STOP AID, SAY UGANDAN RIGHTS GROUPS
A coalition of human rights groups in Uganda has urged the world to not block financial donor aid as a means to respond to the country’s new Anti-Homosexuality Act. This request was included in suggested guidelines for individuals or groups opposed to the oppressive law, issued by the Kampala-based Civil Society Coalition on Human Rights […]