Soweto Fashion Week web designer stands by anti-gay comments
The head of the Johannesburg company that designed the Soweto Fashion Week website has taken to social media to slam gay people as immoral, unnatural and more likely to be child molesters. Edwin Mbugua, Head of web development at E&A Web Design Lab, was driven to his homophobic diatribe on Twitter after he saw a […]
Parliamentary committee rejects Russian anti gay law
A Russian parliamentary committee has declined to support a bill that proposes banning being gay in public. According to The Moscow Times, the draft law was rejected on Monday by the State Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building for technical reasons. The explanation given Dmitry Vyatkin, the deputy chairman of the committee, was […]
Spy agency is UK’s best LGBT employer
The secret is out! Intelligence agency MI5 has been named the most LGBT-friendly employer in an assessment of LGBT equality in the UK workplace. According to LGBT group Stonewall, which compiles the annual list, the agency took the top spot this year, up from seventh in 2015. Ironically, prior to 1990, MI5 would not even employ gay and […]