New hope that India will finally legalise homosexuality
India’s LGBT community is hopeful after the Supreme Court announced that it will review the country’s continued criminalisation of same-sex love. The court said on Monday it was preparing to reconsider its 2013 decision upholding Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which punishes “carnal intercourse against the order of nature” with imprisonment. The decision […]
Was age controversy behind ‘Call Me By Your Name’ Golden Globes snub?
Despite multiple major nominations, the past year’s most beautiful and touching gay love story has failed to win any Golden Globes. Based on André Aciman’s novel, Call Me by Your Name is a haunting love story and coming of age film about a 17-year-old youth named Elio, played by Timothée Chalamet. He falls for Oliver […]
Seven arrested after horror torture and murder of lesbian couple
A lesbian couple from Mooinooi in the North West province are believed to have been tortured, raped, murdered and set alight, allegedly by seven people. Anisha (30) – a manager at an Anglo mine – and Joey van Niekerk (32) went missing on 10 December when they set out to drive to Pretoria for a family […]