Here are the best companies for LGBTI+ people in South Africa
The results of South Africa’s first LGBTI+ Workplace Equality Index (SAWEI) have been released, rating the most inclusive companies in the country to work for.
The world reacts to India’s LGBTQ rights earthquake
The legalisation of homosexuality in India means that tens of millions more LGBTQ people overnight are now living in countries where they are free to love who they want.
Freedom! World’s biggest LGBTI rights victory as India decriminalises homosexuality
In a stunning victory for one of the world’s largest LGBTI communities, India’s Supreme Court has finally ruled that the 158-year-old Section 377 ban on homosexuality is unconstitutional.
“I’d been living a lie”: Voice SA winner Craig Lucas comes out in powerful letter
Craig Lucas, the winner of season two of The Voice SA, has come out in an emotional and inspiring open letter to his family, friends and fans.
Durban LGBTI community silenced again by city council
Durban’s EThekwini Municipality Council Speaker, William Mapena, has been accused of again refusing to allow a motion expressing support for the LGBTI community to be debated.
SA business to ‘come out the closet’ at 1st LGBTI Business Summit
PLUS, South Africa’s business network for LGBTI people, is convening a groundbreaking national LGBTI business summit on 11 September in Johannesburg to set an LGBTI agenda for economic empowerment.
Nigeria | Presidential candidate would legalise homosexuality – as long as it’s private
Nigerian presidential candidate Donald Duke says he’s fine with gay people, as long as they keep their sexuality out of the public eye. And he certainly won’t stand to be kissed by another man.
Nigeria | Police parade 57 arrested at so-called ‘gay initiation’
The media in Nigeria has uncritically reported claims by the police that a large group of men were arrested while being “initiated into a homosexual club” in Lagos.
Vatican erases Pope’s comment about sending gay kids to psychiatrists
The Vatican says that Pope Francis did not mean to suggest that homosexuality is a mental illness in his recent remarks about gay children.
Pope to parents: Don’t condemn gay children but send them to a psychiatrist
The Pope is once again conveying mixed messages to Catholics; urging parents of gay children not to judge them but also to consider sending them to a psychiatrist.