SA-BORN ACTIVIST HONOURED BY SAN FRANCISCO PRIDE
Controversial and fiery, Melanie Nathan, a South African-born attorney and LGBT rights activist, has been selected as a Community Grand Marshal for this Sunday’s San Francisco Pride Parade. Grand Marshals are public emissaries who have made significant contributions to the LGBT community. They are selected annually by San Francisco Pride’s Board of Directors. Nathan says that […]
MOTHER ACCEPTS RELEASE OF GOLDIN, BLOOM ATTACKERS
After years of campaigning against their parole, the mother of slain actor Brett Goldin has accepted the release of two of the men who hijacked her son. Jade Wyngaard and Nurshad Davids were released on parole from the Drakenstein Correctional Centre on Wednesday after serving two-thirds of their 12-year sentence. In April 2006, the naked […]
ANOTHER BLOW TO AFRICAN GAY RIGHTS: GAMBIA PLANS ANTI-GAY BILL
The Gambian government is working on a new bill that will further outlaw gay people and will ban groups lobbying for African gay rights. On Sunday, the Gambia Consultative Council reported that the country’s Secretary General and Minister for Presidential Affairs Momodou Sabally confirmed plans to submit the bill to parliament. It will ban all […]