LGBTIQ hate crimes | Two unresolved cases in Potchefstroom
Silke Spierings accompanies activists to Potchefstroom, where two victims of LGBTIQ hate crimes, one alive and one dead, are still awaiting justice. “Why did you decide to report the rape to the police, Mbali*?” Dawie asks carefully. ‘”I don’t want to keep silent. I want to make a difference, for other victims. I want something […]
Alabama narrowly rejects homophobic child abuse-accused Roy Moore
Roy Moore, the bigoted anti-LGBTQ politician and disgraced former judge, has lost his Trump-supported bid to be elected as senator for the state of Alabama. Democrat and former US Federal Prosecutor Doug Jones won the divisive and extremely tight poll, scoring 49.9% to 48.4% of the votes. The result is a major blow to President Trump who […]
Botswana | Another victory for transgender rights
For the second time this year, the Botswana High Court has ordered the state to legally recognise the gender identity of a transgender person. On Tuesday, in Gaborone, Justice Leatile Dambe told the national registrar to change Tshepo Ricki Kgositau’s gender from male to female in the national registry. Dambe also ordered the director of […]
New research adds to evidence that we are born gay
Groundbreaking research led by a team from Brock University in Canada has further confirmed that sexual orientation for men is likely determined in the womb and that we are ‘born gay’. The research is said to be the first-ever laboratory study of mothers of gay men and was prompted by more than two decades of statistical […]