Report: Barry Manilow marries his manager
American singer and songwriter Barry Manilow, 71, has reportedly secretly married his longtime manager Garry Kief, 66. According to People and other media outlets, the wedding ceremony was held last year and took the couple’s friends and family by surprise. A friend revealed to the magazine that the 20 to 30 guests had been invited […]
Saint Laurent: A fashion icon comes to the big screen
An acclaimed French biopic of iconic gay fashion superstar Yves Saint Laurent débuts on the big screen in South Africa this month. Set between 1967 and 1976, Saint Laurent covers the designer’s life during the peak of his remarkable and ground-breaking career. Co-written and directed by Bertrand Bonello, and staring Gaspard Ulliel as Yves Saint […]
Obama backs banning anti-LGBT conversion therapy
President Obama has signalled his support for efforts to outlaw so-called conversion therapy for LGBT minors. The practice seeks to “cure” or “convert” LGBT people to heterosexuality or traditional gender identities. On Wednesday, the White House responded to a We the People petition signed by over 120,000 people that was launched in response to the […]
Advertorial: Jack’d makes a splash in SA
There’s a new dating app in town and it’s making a serious splash. Brought to you by the guys who created Manhunt, Jack’d is a young, fresh and sexy app for dating and socialising. It’s currently the most used gay app in Asia and keeps growing daily worldwide, faster than any of its competitors. First […]
Do you buy it? SABC presenter says Twitter account hacked
SABC sports presenter Coudjoe Amankwaa claims that recent homophobic comments on his Twitter account were posted by someone else without his authority. On Wednesday, the SABC finally issued a formal statement in response to the furore over Amankwaa’s series of homophobic tweets on the weekend. These included stating that homosexuality is “a problem” and an […]
Health: Getting testy
Standing on Seapoint Main road in Cape Town has many connotations. More than a decade ago, my friend and I were doing just that, but it was daytime and the sex workers we’d come to know quite well had long since gone home for the day. We were there to get HIV tests. We’d heard […]