Malawi’s new marriage law entrenches LGBTI discrimination
Malawi has been urged to revise aspects of its newly-adopted marriage law that discriminate against LGBTI people. On Thursday, Human Rights Watch praised the country’s Marriage, Divorce and Family Relations Act for setting 18 as the minimum age for marriage in order to prevent child marriage, but said that it also contains anti-LGBTI provisions “By […]
The Black Swan on the streets of Soweto and PTA
Over the last week passersby in Johannesburg and Pretoria have been shocked, amazed and possibly disturbed by the unlikely scenario of a muscular gay man performing ballet on the streets. Former Mr Gay World Chris Olwage, who is South African-born but now lives in New Zealand, has donned his black tutu, pointe shoes and little […]
US shooter says he killed gay man because he came on to brother
The white supremacist who shot and killed a gay North Carolina college worker this week has stated that he hates gays. Kenneth Morgan Stancil III, 20, has admitted to shooting and killing 44-year-old Ron Lane, who was his former supervisor at the college’s printing shop. In a phone interview from prison with WRAL-TV on Wednesday, Stancil […]