Cape Town Pride responds to activist protest and demands
Cape Town Pride has responded to the lie-in protest during last week’s Cape Town Pride parade and demands made by the Cape Town People’s Pride Collective. Below is Pride’s statement, reprinted in full below. First and foremost, we would like to thank each and every LGBTI+ community members and their friends who turned out in record numbers to […]
Activists demand changes to Cape Town Pride
Following the lie-in protest during last week’s Cape Town Pride parade, and years of conflict between some activists and Pride organisers, a group called the Cape Town People’s Pride Collective have issued a statement, reprinted in full below. Statement from the Cape Town People’s Pride Collective* regarding our recent disruption action at Cape Town Pride […]
Male escort outs Catholic priests with explicit dossier over anti-gay hypocrisy
An Italian male escort has outed around 50 closeted Catholic priests to the Vatican in a bid to expose them for their hypocrisy. Francesco Mangiacapra, a former lawyer turned escort from Naples, compiled the dossier of information about the priests over a number of years. It reportedly contains names, nude photos, explicit videos and WhatsApp […]
Kenya | Lesbian woman’s mother pleads for equality
The mother of a lesbian woman in Kenya has called for an end to the stigma and discrimination her daughter is forced to endure simply because she loves women. Published in The Star newspaper, the letter by “concerned parent” comes in the wake of recent court hearings challenging the constitutionality of the county’s colonial era criminalisation […]
US town that tried to ban Pride gives in after global outrage
Pride celebrations are back on track in the Mississippi student town of Starkville, USA, after city officials reversed their outrageous ban on the event. Last month two university students who founded Starkville Pride sued the city in a bid to force it to to grant them permission to hold the town’s first LGBTQ Pride parade. […]
RuPaul under fire over transgender drag comments
Drag icon RuPaul has been forced to issue an apology over comments stating that transgender contestants should not be allowed on his award-winning drag show. The controversy started when RuPaul addressed the issue of gender and drag in an interview with The Guardian. In it he was asked if a transgender woman can be a […]
Anger and celebration mark Cape Town Pride 2018
The 16th annual Cape Town Pride parade made its way through the city on Saturday under the theme of “Love Happens Here”. The march, the climax of the 10-day LGBTQ festival, started at noon at the Fan Walk, at the beginning of Somerset Road. The crowds braved the heat wearing colorful outfits, waving rainbow flags […]
Gallery: 2018 Cape Town Pride Mardi Gras
After the parade through the city, Saturday’s 2018 Cape Town Pride celebrations really kicked off at Reddam Field at Green Point Urban Park. Thousands came out to meet, mingle and have a rainbow-coloured party in the heat of the Summer sun. The festivities continued into the early evening accompanied by the sights and sounds of […]
Inxeba ‘unbanned’ and to return to cinemas (for now)
Inxeba (The Wound) has been temporarily ‘unbanned’ by the Pretoria High Court and will be back on South African cinema screens from this Friday, although only for those older than 18. Tuesday’s court decision followed an urgent application brought by Webber Wentzel on behalf of the film’s producers and distributor to have its controversial X18 rating […]
Here are the LGBTQ highlights of the 2018 Oscars
While Call Me By Your Name sadly didn’t score the Best Picture statue at the 2018 Academy Awards on Sunday, there were plenty of memorable LGBTQ moments. Call Me By Your Name, a gay coming of age love story, had four nominations, but ultimately only won one; for best Adapted Screenplay by James Ivory. As he took […]