GAY MAN MURDERED EXECUTION-STYLE BY EX-BOYFRIEND
A man is alleged to have brutally shot and run over his ex-boyfriend, despite his desperate pleas to live. The Star Tribune reports that a witness, Josh Polos, saw Kelly Phillips and Lyle Hoffman’s car pulling into a parking lot next to Minnesota petrol station on Monday morning. Polos, who was filling his car with […]
HAVING SEX WITH NEW MAN EVERY DAY FOR A YEAR – FOR ART?
A performance artist in Berlin is planning to sleep with a different man every day for a year as an art project. The 26-year-old Russian-born Mischa Badasyan’s project is called Save the Date. Through it, he aims to explore loneliness and the difficulty of connecting with others in today’s impersonal world and hook-up gay culture. […]
ANGER AS 27 MEN ARRESTED IN LEBANON GAY RAID
Human rights and sexual health groups have demanded the immediate release of 27 men arrested in a bath house in Lebanon on suspicion of having gay sex. The judicial police’s Moral Protection Bureau raided the Turkish-style bath house in the Beirut neighbourhood of Hamra-Concord on Saturday night. The raid followed the arrest of an individual […]
UGANDA’S ANTI-GAY LAW APPEAL HALTED, MAY BE AMENDED
Uganda’s President Museveni has reportedly ordered the country’s attorney general to suspend an appeal filed against the annulment of the Anti-Homosexuality Act. It’s also claimed that he wants to amend the law so that it is more “acceptable” to the West, following international outrage and limited aid cuts and sanctions. In a press statement issued […]
MEET LIAM VANDIAR: SA’S HOT NEW INTERNATIONAL MALE MODEL
South Africa’s Liam Vandiar is making waves in Europe. A former professional soccer player turned international model, Liam is one of our hottest new exports. Top Billing will be meeting him this week at his new home in Hamburg, Germany. (Thursday, 14 August, 20:30, SABC3) In the meantime, check out some highlights below from his Instagram […]
REPORT: 2 HANGED FOR GAY SEX IN IRAN
A human rights group reports that two men have been hanged in Iran, apparently for the crime of having gay sex. According to Iran Human Rights (IHR), the two men were among a group of four prisoners that were hanged in public in Shiraz, Southern Iran on August 6. It said that the official website […]
PARENTS TRY TO SET TEEN ALIGHT FOR BEING GAY
The parents of an 18-year-old in Azerbaijan beat and tried to set him alight after they discovered he is gay. The group LGBT Azerbaijan Alliance reported that the parents of the young man, named only as M.N, attempted to burn him after dousing him with petrol. “A lot of signs of violence on his body […]
COULD SEYCHELLES LEGALISE HOMOSEXUALITY SOON?
The Seychelles could start fulfilling its earlier promise to legalise homosexuality. The blog Denisnzioka.co.ke reports that the country’s Judicial College hosted a public discussion on “discrimination of gay people, marriage quality and morality” on Monday. In 2011, the Seychelles government told the United Nations Human Rights Council that it planned to decriminalise homosexuality and to […]
NEW KENYA ANTI-GAY BILL CALLS FOR STONING TO DEATH OF GAYS
A horrific new bill has been introduced in Kenya’s Parliament that seeks to top Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill by punishing homosexuality with life imprisonment and the death penalty. According to Daily Nation, the Republican Liberty Party has presented the draft bill to the National Assembly. Same-sex consensual sex among adults is already illegal in Kenya, with […]
NEW PARTNERSHIPS TO BOOST PINK LOERIE MR GAY WORLD BID
The Pink Loerie Mardi Gras & Arts Festival has announced a number of new partnerships that will ensure that next year’s event in Knysna will be bigger and better than ever, say the event’s organisers. It was confirmed today that Globeflight couriers has again secured the naming rights for the 2015 festival and that Mr […]