Here’s the trailer for Looking season 2
The trailer for the second season of Looking, the popular American gay mini-series, has been released. The original eight-part, 30-minute comedy-drama about three gay friends and their lives in San Francisco, was screened by DSTV in South Africa this past May and June. It was both loved and hated when it was broadcast on HBO […]
Send coal to pastor who wants to execute gays for Christmas
A unique campaign has been launched against an American pastor who preached that the world could be “Aids free by Christmas” if all gay people are executed. In an appalling sermon ahead of World Aids Day, Pastor Steven Anderson of Tempe’s Faithful Word Baptist Church told his congregation that Aids was “the judgement of God”. […]
16 Days of Lip Service
When friends and family ask why I am busier than usual, my response is rather morose and bitter: “Sixteen Days of lip service keeps me super busy.” Spammed with emails, phone rings off the hook-the media suddenly cares about gender-based violence and gender equality. Governments’ speeches, which have begun to echo the sluggish monotony of […]
Toya Delazy takes on X Factor South Africa judging role
South African pop star Toya Delazy will join fellow judges Arno Carstens and Oskido as a judge in this week’s episode of The X Factor South Africa, on SABC1 on Saturday, December 6, at 6pm. Delazy will also be the guest act on the results show this week, which follows at 7.30pm, where the Top […]
Versace ditches Gaga for Madonna
Pop icon Madonna has replaced Lady Gaga as the face of Versace for the fashion house’s spring/summer 2015 collection. The black and white campaign images were shot in New York City by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, Commented Donatella Versace: “Madonna is one of the true icons of Versace. I am thrilled to have my […]
SA lesbian artist up for top international prize
South Africa’s Zanele Muholi is once again being honoured for her ongoing series of intimate and striking portraits of lesbian women. Muholi has been shortlisted for the European Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, which awards contemporary photographers who have made a significant contribution to the medium of photography in the past year with a £30,000 prize. […]
Motoring: A grand proposition – the Hyundai Grand i10
This is the new Hyundai i10. Except it isn’t … It’s the Grand i10: a bigger, bolder, higher-spec’d model that, in South Africa, slots in a cut above the i10 we’ve known for years, and just below the i20. Overseas, however, it is the new i10. Nonetheless, South African motoring consumers are not unaccustomed to […]