ASYLUM SEEKER GIVES SEX TAPE TO PROVE SHE’S LESBIAN
A Nigerian woman has been forced to give UK immigration authorities a sex tape to prove that she is lesbian. Aderonke Apata has been in the UK for ten years after she fled her homeland because of her sexual orientation, and is now under threat of deportation. The 47-year-old has been engaged in a struggle to […]
ZAMBIA: GAY RIGHTS ‘NOT CHRISTIAN’
Zambia’s Foreign Affairs Deputy Minister has proclaimed that his country will not recognise gay rights as to do so would be contrary to its constitutional Christian values. The Times of Zambia reports that Minister Gabriel Namulambe told visiting American Deputy Assistant Secretary for Southern African Affairs Shannon Smith that “gaysm” is in conflict with Zambian […]
BOTSWANA GAY BLOOD DONATION BAN CHALLENGED
Following the repeal of a similar ban in South Africa, an NGO is planning to take the Botswana government to court over its refusal to allow gays to donate blood. Cindy Kelemi from the Botswana Network on Ethics, Law and HIV/AIDS (Bonela), told Gabz Fm News last month that the restriction on gay blood donation […]
MOGOENG: I WILL UPHOLD GAY RIGHTS
Controversial Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng has insisted that he will ensure that gay people’s constitutional rights are upheld. Mogoeng faced a firestorm after he recently called for religion to be brought into the law at a conference at the University of Stellenbosch. “I believe that we can only become a better people if religion could […]
UGANDA TARGETS GROUP FOR “PROMOTING HOMOSEXUALITY”
The Ugandan government appears to be targeting organisations that are part of a coalition seeking to overturn the reviled Anti-Homosexuality Act. Well-known LGBTI activist Dr. Frank Mugisha tweeted on Tuesday that NTV News had reported that the activities of the Refugee Law Project (RLP) have been “halted due their pro gay support.” RLP hosts the […]
ZAMBIA ‘GAY COUPLE’ VERDICT DELAYED AFTER YEAR IN JAIL
After spending more than a year in jail, the nightmarish homosexuality trial of two Zambian men has been delayed again. Barber Philip Mubiana and bricklayer James Mwape, both in their early twenties, are charged with having ‘carnal knowledge against the order of nature.’ The verdict in their trial was meant to have been delivered on […]
CONCERN AS CHIEF JUSTICE URGES INCLUDING RELIGION IN SA LAW
News that South Africa’s Constitutional Court Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng has called for religion to be brought into the law should be concerning to all South Africans, but especially the LGBT community. According to SABC News, Mogoeng made the disturbing statement at the second Annual African Law and Religion conference at the University of Stellenbosch. The […]
DUDUZILE ZOZO CASE: WHERE’S RAPID RESPONSE TEAM?
Duduzile Zozo’s family’s hope that justice for the raped and murdered young lesbian was in the offing was dashed on Monday. The trial of the man accused of strangling and raping Zozo with a toilet brush has been postponed by another five months. The 26-year-old openly lesbian woman’s brutalised body was found in Thokoza, east […]
NEW GAY BLOOD RULES: APPLAUSE & ANGER
While the change to South Africa’s blood donation rules allowing gay men to donate has been widely welcomed, some have reacted with concern and even anger. Last week, Mambaonline reported that the South African National Blood Service (SANBS) had put a new non-discriminatory policy in place that allows anyone who’s been in a monogamous relationship […]
US ENDORSES HIV PREVENTION DRUGS IN GAY ADS
America’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has launched a controversial new HIV prevention campaign aimed at gay men. The ‘Start Talking, Stop HIV’ national campaign encourages gay and bisexual men to talk openly and honestly to each other about HIV before they have sex. “It’s time to turn the volume up on HIV […]