Miss Gay Jozi 2015 social gallery
Miss Gay Jozi, Gauteng’s most lavish drag pageant, recently crowned its 2015 queen at the Wits Theatre in Johannesburg. Twenty-seven-year-old model Ycer Machimana from Midrand took home the title at the glam event, which has become a highlight of the LGBT calendar. Photographer David Penney was there to capture the guests at the pageant as […]
LGBT dating site murderer accuses warder of homophobia
An LGBT prisoner serving time for an online hook-up murder in the Western Cape has complained that he’s being discriminated against by a prison warder. Jerome Benjamin, 30, was sentenced in 2013 to 15 years at Brandvlei Prison in Worcester for stabbing a 64-year-old gay man, Graham Flax, to death. The two made contact on an online dating […]
Could Morocco legalise homosexuality?
Morocco could become the first Arab nation to decriminalise homosexuality, if the government accepts the recommendation of a new Health Ministry study. The study, commissioned by the ministry and conducted by ALSC association and the UN’s Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS), has called for homosexuality be legalised in order to effectively tackle the scourge of HIV. […]
Millions turn out for 19th Sao Paulo Gay Pride
The world’s biggest LGBT Pride parade saw an estimated two million people taking to the streets of downtown Sao Paulo on Sunday. Hundreds of thousands marched and danced along Paulista Avenue, the city’s main thoroughfare, marking this year’s theme of: “I was born this way, I grew up so I will always be like this: respect […]