GAY SOUTH AFRICAN BOOK WINS INTERNATIONAL AWARD
A South African collection of gay and lesbian African fiction has won a coveted literary award in New York City. On Monday, Queer Africa: New and Collected Fiction was honoured with the LGBT Anthology Fiction prize at the annual Lambda Literary Awards, making it the first African-produced book to win a ‘Lammy’. Now in their […]
GAY ART EXHIBIT ATTACKED & BANNED IN SENEGAL
A groundbreaking exhibition of LGBTI African art has been banned by the authorities in Senegal after an attack on the gallery. The exhibition, Precarious Imaging: Visibility and Media Surrounding African Queerness, opened on 11 May as part of the informal programme for Dak’Art 2014, the 11th Biennale of Contemporary African Art. The Art Newspaper reported […]
WATCH PRINCIPAL COMING OUT AS GAY TO SCHOOL
The principal of the largest public high school in Washington DC has come out as a gay man to his students and staff. Speaking at a lunchtime Pride Day event at Wilson High School on Wednesday, Principal Pete Cahall, revealed that he had “hid in the shadows but I am liberated today,” reports The Washington […]