SA-BORN ACTIVIST HONOURED BY SAN FRANCISCO PRIDE
Controversial and fiery, Melanie Nathan, a South African-born attorney and LGBT rights activist, has been selected as a Community Grand Marshal for this Sunday’s San Francisco Pride Parade. Grand Marshals are public emissaries who have made significant contributions to the LGBT community. They are selected annually by San Francisco Pride’s Board of Directors. Nathan says that […]
METRO WON’T SUPPORT DURBAN GAY PRIDE, ALLOWS HOMOPHOBIA
The eThekwini Municipal Council has apparently refused to express its support for Durban Gay Pride and has been accused of instead allowing a council member to display shockingly homophobic behaviour. At a meeting at City Hall this morning (25 June), DA Councillor Martin Meyer attempted to ask the Council to congratulate Durban’s LGBTI community on this week’s […]
UGANDA ANTI-GAY ‘ETHICS’ MINISTER WINS RIGHTS CASE
There’s been another victory for the Uganda anti-gay camp. A campaign by the homophobic minster of ethics to shut down LGBT groups has been firmly backed by the courts. On Monday, the Uganda High Court ruled that Ethics and Integrity Minister Simon Lokodo was legally justified in conducting a February 2012 raid on a private LGBT rights workshop […]
SA GOVT ‘DELAYING’ REGIONAL AFRICAN LGBTI RIGHTS SEMINAR
African civil society groups have demanded that the South African government sets a date for its promised regional seminar on African LGBTI rights, claiming that it is deliberately delaying the process. In March, the original text of a speech given by the Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Nkoana-Mashabane, at the United Nations Human Rights […]
ANTI-GAY UGANDA MINISTER VOTED HEAD OF UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Despite an outcry from the world’s LGBT community, African nations have unanimously chosen to make Uganda’s anti-gay Foreign Minister the new President of the UN General Assembly. Sam Kutesa, 65, was elected to the post on Wednesday in New York. The year-long largely ceremonial position is chosen on a regional rotation basis and this time […]
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 […]