WORLD CUP GAY FOOTBALL STARS URGED TO COME OUT

Gay football players at the Brazil World Cup have been urged to come out the closet by the UN’s human rights chief. “I encourage players, sports people to declare their sexual orientation without fear,” UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay told reporters at a meeting on equality in sports in Geneva on Monday. She explained that this is […]

DURBAN PRIDE TO MARK 20 YEARS OF LGBTI RIGHTS

Durban will be commemorating 20 years of LGBTI rights this June with the annual Durban Pride Liberation March and Festival. According to the organisers, the event “will raise the international gay flag to mark the commemoration of lives lost and the celebration of life, of diversity, the right to sexual orientation, to sexual and gender […]