NAMIBIA’S EFF WANNABE PARTY IS PROUDLY ANTI-GAY
A new Namibian political party launched this week is inspired by Julius Malema’s EFF, with one significant difference: It’s openly homophobic and already spouting anti-gay rhetoric. According to the Mail and Guardian, the Namibia Economic Freedom Fighters (NEFF) is a “populist movement sporting red berets, using military ranks and demanding nationalisation of all the land […]
FILM REVIEW: THE 10 YEAR PLAN
Hailing from the studios of Cinema175 in West Hollywood, writer/director J.C. Calciano, creator of previous festival favourites such as Is It Just Me?, eCupid and the sneaky hit YouTube web series, Steam Room Stories, brings us his latest cinematic shenanigans. Who doesn’t enjoy an entertaining Rom-Com every now and then? Something you can slip on, […]
FILM REVIEW: THE FALLS
Unlike Ang Lee’s Oscar winning 2005 film Brokeback Mountain, American director Jon Garcia’s film The Falls is not big budget, overlong or does not feature any major Hollywood stars. Instead, The Falls is a nuanced and superb analysis of how two young men find affection and sexual attraction for each other in the confines of a […]
STUDY: RELIGIOUS ‘HELP’ LINKED TO GAY SUICIDE
A US study has found that seeking help from religious or spiritual sources when coming out could be very bad for your health. According to the unsettling research, getting help from health care providers doesn’t seem to make much difference as to whether lesbians, gays and bisexuals (LGBs) attempt suicide. But even more disturbingly, the […]
GROOMING: DEALING WITH SPIDER & VARICOSE VEINS
We all have our little obsessions about certain areas of our anatomy that don’t quite conform to perfection. For some of us it’s a wobbly tummy, or the wrinkles that appeared when no one was watching. And for some of us it’s those little red spider veins that appear around the nose area or even […]