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All the details: Cape Town Pride 2023 Parade & Mardi Gras:
The annual Cape Town Pride Parade and Mardi Gras will set the Mother City abuzz on Saturday 4 March 2023. Here's what you need to know.

Here’s the Cape Town Pride 2023 calendar of events:
The Cape Town Pride Festival has revealed details of this year’s three-week-long festival which runs from 9 February 9 to 5 March.

I was a victim of the Grindr Gang:
Hendrik, a gay Johannesburg man, was a recent victim of the so-called Grindr Gang. He writes about his harrowing experience of being held captive and robbed.

LGBTIQ teen beaten and abused by young women:
Thabiso Motaung, a 19-year-old member of the LGBTIQ community in Cape Town, was filmed being stripped naked and beaten by three young women in Khayelitsha.

South Africa’s first all-black, all-queer music compilation EP is here:
South African queer music stars Mx Blouse, Gyre, Umlilo, Hlasko and Mr Allofit feature in the new EP, Nkululeko, a celebration of freedom

Join the Rainbow Christmas Drive to bring cheer to those in need:
Several LGBTIQ+ groups, with Mahindra South Africa, are embarking on a campaign to bring joy to underprivileged and vulnerable South Africans.

Queer love in The Valley of a Thousand Hills:
The Valley of a Thousand Hills is a powerful South African queer love story about a lesbian couple in the rural heartland of KwaZulu-Natal.

Five killed in US gay nightclub shooting:
An attacker has killed five people and injured others in a shooting in a Colorado Springs gay nightclub in the US state of Colorado.

In Pictures: Feather Awards 2022:
The #UnfvckenApologetic 14th Feather Awards was a glitzy gathering of LGBTIQ+ changemakers and celebs. Here's our photos of the night!

Ghana: Speaker promises to pass dreaded anti-LGBTIQ bill:
The Speaker of Parliament in Ghana, Alban Bagbin, is determined to see lawmakers pass the country's dreaded anti-LGBTIQ bill before the next election in 2024.