UN CHIEF MEETS & PRAISES CONCHITA WURST
Austrian drag star Conchita Wurst has been praised by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for her efforts in promoting LGBT equality. Wurst, sporting a royal blue dress and her usual beard, met Ban and other UN officials at the UN complex in Vienna on Monday where she also performed her winning Eurovision Song Contest entry, Rise […]
WATCH: TOYA DELAZY’S NEW PANSEXUAL MUSIC VIDEO
Toya Delazy has released a gay-affirming video for her new single – and it includes same-sex couples kissing. The singer’s clip for Forbidden Fruit shows lesbian, gay male and heterosexual couples smooching. It’s perhaps DeLazy’s most daring music video to-date and the first that deals directly with sexual diversity. The star, one of a handful […]
RUSSIA TAKES DOWN APPLE MONUMENT OVER COOK’S COMING OUT
The petty absurdity of Russian anti-gay hysteria seems to know no bounds. On Monday it was revealed that a monument to late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has been dismantled because current Apple CEO Tim Cook has come out as gay. The iPhone-shaped two-metre-high memorial was erected in St Petersburg in January 2013 by the Russian […]
CONCERN OVER LESBIAN MURDER PLEA DEAL
It’s been reported that the alleged murderer of lesbian Duduzile Zozo may get away with a plea deal sentence. Lekgoa Lesley Motleleng is accused of strangling and raping Zozo with a toilet brush in June last year after she refused to kiss him. The 26-year-old openly lesbian woman’s brutalised body was found in Thokoza, east […]