Ten years of slow progress for global gay rights
Ahead of Sunday’s International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT), a new report reveals that fewer countries now ban same-sex love compared to a decade ago. According to ILGA’s 10th annual report on state homophobia, authored this year by Aengus Carroll and Lucas Paoli Itaborahy, homosexuality is currently illegal in 76 countries. This is a […]
Khumbulani Pride comes to Khayelitsha
The Cape Town township of Khayelitsha will be hosting the third annual Khumbulani Pride this Saturday, 16 May. Khumbulani (which means “remember”) Pride was created in 2013 to raise community awareness about LGBTIQA rights, to celebrate sexual and gender diversity, and to remember the victims of hate crimes. It’s held every year in a different area around […]
Number of gay Christians increase in US
While Americans are increasingly moving away from Christianity, more members of the LGBT community appear to be embracing the faith. These surprising trends were revealed in the Pew Research Center report, America’s Changing Religious Landscape, released this week. According to the study of 35,000 American adults, the percentage of people who identify as Christian (the largest […]