Awesome! Toya Delazy to perform at London Pride
In a major coup, South African music star Toya Delazy will be performing at Pride in London this Saturday. Delazy, who is one of Africa’s few proudly out LGBT artists, will be singing at the Women’s Stage in Soho at 6pm. The singer told Mambaonline that she feels “supper happy” about performing at one of […]
Ugandan police blame victims in LGBT-allied NGO break-in
Uganda’s police appear to have done little to investigate a break-in and murder at an LGBT-supporting human rights group’s offices and instead suggested that it was an inside job. Last month we reported that the offices of Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum (HRAPF) were broken into in the early hours of the morning of […]
Meet Miss America’s first openly lesbian contestant
A 23-year-old woman has become the first openly gay Miss America contestant in the pageant’s 95-year history. South Carolina-born Erin O’Flaherty was crowned Miss Missouri last Saturday, automatically making her one of the competitors in the national contest. “I’m on cloud nine really just to be Miss Missouri,” she told Associated Press after beating out […]
Three quarters of LGBT Brits still hide their identity
Despite the assumption that acceptance is high in Britain, a majority of British LGBT people still feel the need to lie about their identity. This was revealed in new research based on a survey of more than 1,000 LGBT people released ahead of Pride in London on Saturday. It found that 74% of LGBT respondents […]