ECUADOR TO REGISTER GAY UNIONS, BUT NOT MARRIAGES
Ecuador’s President, Rafael Correa, has announced that the country will start to recognise same-sex unions from next month. Although civil unions for all couples – regardless of gender or sexual orientation – have technically been legal since the country’s Constitution was approved in 2008, the Ecuadoran Civil Registry has refused to register same-sex unions. This […]
MOTORING: 4 OF THE BEST – BMW 435i COUPE
With the plethora of new models joining the vehicle market each year, you can be assured there will always be something to suit any taste or requirement. There are cars that fulfil a straightforward goal, and there are the newer breed of, well, crossbreeds that attempt to be all things to all people. Take BMW’s X6 […]
AFTER 9 MONTH AWAITING TRIAL TWO LESBIANS RELEASED
Two women in Cameroon have been released after being jailed for nine months while awaiting trial on homosexuality charges. The blog Erasing 76 Crimes, reports that the women, identified only as Liliane and Nicole, were found guilty earlier this month. On Thursday last week they were sentenced to two years in prison. This was, however, […]
LOOPHOLE ALLOWS GAY MARRIAGES TO BE RECOGNISED IN NAMIBIA
A same-sex couple have reportedly managed to get their marriage recognised in Namibia thanks to a loophole in the nation’s law. Heide Rossouw of Heide Rossouw Legal Office in Walvis Bay discovered that although Namibia does not recognise gay marriages from other countries it does recognise foreign civil unions as equivalent to marriage. She recently […]
GIFT’S ALLEGED KILLER’S MOM: HE DID IT
The mother of the man arrested for the rape and murder of lesbian Disebo “Gift” Makau says her son admitted to her that he committed the crime. Pule Botlhokwane, 24, has been charged with the recent horror attack in which Makau was raped and strangled to death with a wire and had a running hosepipe […]