Transgender rights | Vital case heads to Equality Court
The Equality Court in Cape Town will soon hear a groundbreaking case on the rights of transgender prisoners. The court will have to decide whether a correctional facility has to take steps to reasonably accommodate transgender female prisoners who are currently in a male prison. This would include, among other things, allowing transgender female prisoners […]
New South African gay film ‘Kanarie’ is making waves (Watch)
In the wake of Inxeba, South African queer filmmaking is on a high with the upcoming debut of Kanarie, a gay coming-of-age musical drama set in apartheid South Africa. The film’s first trailer has just been released and it’s sparking interest and excitement around the world. Kanarie (Afrikaans for Canary) tells the story of an 18-year-old […]
Polyamorous relationships and the law in South Africa
We’ve all heard the saying “two’s a company, three’s a crowd.” And, while most people are happy having one significant other, others don’t find a relationship with three, four (or more) partners that crowded. Progressively, people around the word, and in South Africa are embracing polyamorous relationships. Recently, a British therapist named Mary Crumpton made […]
Hollywood | Alarming drop in LGBTQ film characters
Media lobby group GLAAD says that only 14 (12.8%) of the 109 releases from major Hollywood studios in 2017 included LGBTQ characters. That represents a significant decrease from the previous year (18.4%, 23 out of 125), and the lowest percentage of LGBTQ-inclusive major studio releases since GLAAD began tracking this in 2012. Not one of […]