Look! Africa’s biggest gay rainbow flag flies in PE
Port Elizabeth has unveiled the largest-ever flown gay rainbow flag in Africa to mark this past weekend’s fourth Nelson Mandela Bay Pride celebrations. On Friday, Pride organisers, along with members of the city’s metro council and tourism authority, attended an official ceremony to raise the flag at Donkin Reserve, situated on a hill that overlooks […]
Uganda: Donated computers secretly “recruiting” students into homosexuality
The speaker of Uganda’s Parliament has warned her country’s citizens that gay people are recruiting the youth through donated school computers and adoption. The homophobic Rebecca Kadaga, who allowed the illegal passing of the now-annulled Anti-Homosexuality act in Parliament last year, made the astonishing crackpot claims at the golden jubilee celebrations of a Church in […]
The best of HIV shower selfies
Thousands around the world joined the HIV Shower Selfie Challenge ahead of yesterday’s World Aids day. Conceived by American HIV activist, swimmer, model, and fashion designer Jack Mackenroth, the social media campaign aimed to raise awareness and funds to combat HIV. Supporters were urged to post selfies of themselves in the shower with the hashtag […]
People’s Pride 2014 Gallery
Around 500 LGBTI people marched through the streets of Hillbrow and Braamfontein in Johannesburg on Saturday, demanding justice for all people. The second People’s Pride was a festive political demonstration, filled with song, anger and moving performance pieces that spoke out against persecution, violence and exclusion.