Journalist sent to prison on gay charges
A well-known Senegalese journalist will spend six months in jail after being found guilty of engaging in “homosexual acts”. According to AP, Tamsir Jupiter Ndiaye was arrested in June after he was accused of attempted rape by a young man. He was reportedly chased by an angry mob in the capital Dakar before seeking safety […]
Mayor and justice minister back 1st Jamaica Pride
Two major public figures have come out in support of the first LGBT Pride event in Jamaica, often described as one of the world’s most homophobic nations. Speaking to Washington Blade on Friday, Angela Brown Burke, Mayor of Kingston, confirmed that she would speak at the Pride’s opening ceremony this past weekend. “I come from […]
Shock, tears as Israeli teen dies after gay Pride attack
A teenage girl who was stabbed by an anti-gay religious fanatic at Jerusalem Pride last week has died. Jerusalem Open House, organisers of the Pride march, announced on Sunday that 16-year-old Shira Banki had tragically succumbed to her injuries at the Hadassah Ein Karem Hospital. Banki was one of six people stabbed on Thursday by […]
Thembelihle’s killer gets 22 years
The man who killed Thembelihle Sokhele, a lesbian woman, in Ekurhuleni outside of Johannesburg, has been sentenced to 22 years in jail. Thabo Molefe, 47, was found guilty of murdering 28-year-old Sokhele in his Daveyton home in September last year. Her body was found in his room, two days after she’d been reported missing. Sokhele […]
Namibian minister: “Gayness” should stay out the country
Following a scathing attack on the country’s LGBT community, activists have slammed Namibia’s Finance Deputy Minister, Natangue Ithete. According to Informante, Ithete told finance ministry staff in Walvis Bay that homosexuality was being brought to Namibia by foreigners. “You are either a man or a woman. Don’t come from outside and tell us this is […]
Why was he allowed to stab gay people again?
Questions are being asked about why the Israeli authorities were unable to stop a man convicted of stabbing gay people a decade ago from doing it again. On Thursday, Yishai Shlissel, an ultra-Orthodox Jew, stabbed six participants at the Jerusalem Pride parade, leaving two seriously injured, before being wrestled to the ground and arrested. Shockingly, […]
947 DJ Sizwe Dhlomo says he’s (sadly) not gay
Sexy South African radio personality Sizwe Dhlomo has responded to claims that he beat his “gay lover”. According to a recent Daily Sun report, a man claiming to be Sizwe’s boyfriend said that the presenter “assaults me regularly”. The man apparently told the newspaper that he hadn’t filed charges against Sizwe because, “I love him”. Sizwe later […]
Fewer gay prosecutions in Cameroon
There’s been a welcome drop in the number of prosecutions of gays and lesbians in Cameroon, regarded as one of the most homophobic countries in the world. Erasing 76 Crimes reports that, according to the Cameroonian Foundation for AIDS (Camfaids), prosecutions for homosexuality in the capital Yaoundé decreased by 58 percent between 2012 and 2014. […]
Religious fanatic repeats Pride attack, stabs six at Jerusalem Pride
Six people were stabbed by a knife-wielding religious extremist at yesterday’s Jerusalem Pride parade. Yishai Shlissel, an ultra-Orthodox Jew, ran through the march on Thursday, randomly stabbing six participants; leaving two seriously injured. “We heard people screaming, everyone ran for cover, and there were bloodied people on the ground,” Shai Aviyor, a witness, told Israel’s […]
Is Russia planning to ban gay emojis?
Russia’s obsession with outlawing all representations of homosexuality could soon be extended to gay-themed emojis or emoticons. According to Izvestia.ru, Senator Mikhail Marchenko has called for Russian media regulator and censor Roskomnadzor to investigate “the presence of propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations among minors” on social media sites such as Facebook. He asked the agency […]