SOWETO PRIDE TO MARK 10TH ANNIVERSARY AMIDST TRAGEDY
The annual Soweto LGBTI Pride March will mark its first decade on Saturday 27 September in the wake of another hate crime tragedy. Taking place in one of the country’s largest townships – spaces in which LGBTI people continue to face discrimination and worse – the march remains a significant political statement. Dikeledi Sibanda from […]
QUESTIONS ASKED ABOUT UGANDA GAY STONING REPORT
Questions have been asked about the veracity of a report that seven LGBT people were stoned to death in the past month in rural Uganda. The group Friends New Underground Railroad (FNUR), a US-based Quaker initiative “helping LGBT people in Uganda,” claimed in a media statement on Monday to have received reports from Ugandan activists about […]
RUSSIAN GAY HATE LEADER SENT TO PRISON
The man behind the extremist Russian group responsible for humiliating and torturing gay people, including a Swazi youth, has received a prison sentence. According to Interfax, Maxim Martsinkevich was found guilty of “incitement of hatred or hostility and humiliation of human dignity”, and sentenced to five years in a penal colony. Marcinkiewicz previously spent three […]