Durban welcomes sixth Feather Awards Dialogue
The sixth Chevrolet Feather Awards Dialogue takes place in Durban on Friday 22 July. This year, the annual awards ceremony is marking its eighth anniversary by travelling to eight provinces to engage with communities about LGBTI issues and challenges. The dialogues are hosted in partnership with long standing sponsors Chevrolet and Films and Publications Board, joined by […]
DA slams Minister Gigaba for “misleading” SA over gay hate pastor
The DA says that Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba is lying about his claimed inability to stop gay hate Pastor Steven Anderson’s visit to South Africa. Gigaba’s spokesperson recently stated that “the law doesn’t allow us to turn away anyone from entering the country based on what they have said”. In a statement, the DA slammed Gigaba’s “poor […]
Was Nice Bastille Day mass killer bisexual?
In an unexpected twist, investigators have claimed that the man who killed 84 people in a truck attack in Nice last week was bisexual. Mohamed Bouhlel drove a 19-tonne truck into a crowd of families and gunned down bystanders as they celebrated Bastille Day on the French city’s Promenade des Anglais, before he was shot […]
WeTheBrave moves to tackle HIV among MSM in KZN
Almost half (48.2%) of gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (MSM) in Durban are estimated to be living with HIV. This is according to the South Africa MSM Data Triangulation Project Report published by the Department of Health. Factors listed in the report contributing to this exorbitant figure include alcohol usage […]
Health: Drug-fuelled sex does not have to end in HIV
Did you know that gay and bisexual men as well as straight men who have sex with men, take more illicit drugs than compared to other people? According to the 2013/2014 Crime Survey for England and Wales, gay or bisexual men (33.0%) took more illicit drugs than gay or bisexual women (22.9%) and heterosexual men […]
Charlize Theron: “We value some lives more than others”
In a powerful speech at the International AIDS Conference, Charlize Theron has said that discrimination is the primary reason HIV/Aids has not been beaten. The South-African-born Hollywood superstar used her address at the opening of the Durban event to question why the epidemic has still not been eradicated when we have all the tools needed to […]
Jewish community joins fight against gay hate pastor
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies has urged the government to block hate pastor Steven Anderson’s trip to the country. In a statement, the board said it “strongly objects to the upcoming visit to South Africa of American pastor Steven Anderson of the Faithful Word Baptist Church in Arizona”. Anderson not only supports and […]
Study confirms that HIV treatment stops spread of virus to partners
A new study has shown once again the power of HIV treatment in blocking the transmission of the virus between HIV positive people and their negative partners, even without using condoms. The Partner study, the world’s largest study of people with HIV who have had condomless sex with their HIV negative partners, found that neither […]
Home Affairs postpones gay hate pastor meeting
A meeting between members of the LGBTI community and Minister of Home Affairs Malusi Gigaba about kill-the-gays pastor Steven Anderson has been postponed at the last minute. The meeting was set to take place today (Monday) in Pretoria and would have included SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) Chairman Lawrence Mushwana and the creators of the […]
UN LGBTI vote: SAHRC warns of SA’s “waning commitment” to human rights
The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) says it is concerned that South Africa recently abstained in a vital vote on LGBTI rights at the UN. Last month, the country shocked human rights groups after it chose to abstain in the vote to appoint a global LGBTI watchdog at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) […]