Ethiopia’s former Mr Gay World contestant on being an LGBTIQ asylum seeker
Robel Hailu, the man who represented Ethiopia in the Mr Gay World contest in Johannesburg in 2012, has spoken out in a video about his struggles as an LGBTIQ asylum seeker. Without any formal backing from his country, Hailu that year became one of the first two black African men to take part in the […]
World Cup | FIFA fines Mexico “inconsequential” $10,000 over homophobic chant
FIFA on Wednesday handed down a US $10,400 fine to the Mexico Football Association for “discriminatory and insulting chants” during a World Cup game against Germany. Mexican fans reportedly chanted the homophobic slur on Sunday while German goalkeeper, Manuel Neuer, was preparing to take a goal kick. Football fans in Mexico often use the slur to […]
DA says ACDP’s sentiments threaten to incite anti-gay violence
The DA in the Western Cape says that the ACDP’s support for anti-gay comments made by the mayor of George is a violation of the party’s “moral obligation to create a tolerant post-apartheid South African society.” Last week, Mayor Melvin Naik – who is himself from the DA – went on to local Christian radio […]
Coming out the high school closet: ‘Love, Simon’
Trying to find love while hiding your sexual orientation can be quite complicated. Like for 17-year-old Simon Spier (played by Nick Robinson), who is yet to tell his family and friends that he is gay and finds himself falling in love online with a classmate whose identity he doesn’t know, in gay romcom, Love, Simon. […]