It’s a hit! Frank Ocean scores number ones on both sides of the Atlantic
Following a number 1 debut on the UK charts with his second album, Frank Ocean has repeated the feat on America’s Billboard charts. Last week, Ocean’s Blonde (or Blond, as it’s also referred to) beat out Dolly Parton’s 43rd studio album to top the UK charts, with 32,000 combined sales (including 26,000 downloads). Blonde has […]
Spike in attacks against transgender women in Pakistan
Pakistani authorities must urgently investigate the surge in violent attacks on transgender women in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, says Human Rights Watch. On August 9, unidentified assailants in Abbottabad, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, shot Sumbal, a transgender woman, three times in the abdomen when she resisted abduction and rape. The district hospital refused to admit her, saying […]
Sex club horror as man puts acid in lube dispenser
Patrons at an Australian gay and bisexual club could have been seriously injured after a man placed acid into a lubricant dispenser. According to ABC News, the man filled the dispenser with hydrochloric acid at the Aarows club in Sydney. The club is described as “Sydney’s gay and bi social club” and offers “three levels of […]
Charlize Theron slammed for letting her son dress as Disney queen
Single mom Charlize Theron has been shamed as a bad parent for letting her son Jackson dress as Queen Elsa from the film Frozen. The Hollywood A-lister was photographed out and about with the adorable four-year-old, who wore a dress and a hat with an attached Elsa braid down the back. Jackson, who, like his […]
Two high school students attacked and expelled for being gay in Kenya
Two boys have been beaten and expelled for having sex with each other at one of Kenya’s oldest high schools. According to local media, students at the Maseno boys boarding school in Kisumu County allegedly found the two having sex in the dormitory toilet. The boys were badly beaten by their colleagues before being turned […]
Caster Semenya honoured with Athlete of the Year award
A week after winning an Olympic Gold medal, Caster Semenya has been honoured as South Africa’s Athlete of the Year, at the SPAR gsport Awards. The awards, held at The Venue in Melrose Arch on Saturday night, aim to raise the profile of South African women in sport, and to encourage corporate South Africa to […]
South Africans among top (and most popular) Grindr users at Rio Olympics
Could one of our best ever Olympic performances have been boosted by South Africans getting it on via gay dating apps? According to Grindr, South Africans were among its top users during the Olympic Games in Rio, where it tracked a whopping 14 million messages during the two-week-long event. South Africans were also among the […]
Here’s Industry – Johannesburg’s newest queer lounge and bar
As Gauteng enters its annual Pride season, a new queer bar, lounge and nightclub venue is opening in Johannesburg’s hip and happening Maboneng Precinct on Saturday 3 September. According to its creators, Industry aims to provide “a trendy recreational space where an upwardly mobile lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, queer and intersex community (LGBTQI), aged between […]
Jon Qwelane homophobic hate speech trial returns to court – 8 years on!
An astonishing eight years after writing his infamous homophobic article, disgraced journalist Jon Qwelane will once again face hate speech charges in court. Qwelane was convicted for hate speech in 2011, but has challenged the ruling on the basis that sections of the Equality Act, under which he was convicted, infringe on his constitutional right […]
This man got 40 years in jail for pouring boiling water over gay couple
A US jury has sentenced a Georgia man to 40 years in prison for attacking and maiming a sleeping gay couple with scalding water in February. Anthony Gooden, 23, and Marquez Tolbert, 21, were in bed when Martin Blackwell, 48, who was in a relationship with Gooden’s mother and shared her apartment, poured a pot of boiling […]