100 LEADING HIV/AIDS EXPERTS DIE IN MALAYSIAN PLANE CRASH
The global Aids community is in mourning. Around 100 passengers on the downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH 17 were travelling to the World Aids Conference in Australia, shaking organisers of the event and devastating their colleagues. The Guardian reported that those killed included World Health Organization staff, former International AIDS Society (IAS) president and leading scientist Joep Lange […]
‘GAY’ CHILDREN’S BOOKS TO BE MOVED TO ADULT SECTION
Singapore’s National Library Board (NLB) will no longer destroy children’s books about gay families but the books won’t stay in the children’s section. The NLB’s plans to remove and destroy the books from its public libraries were condemned by many parents and literary figures as an act of censorship. The board justified the controversial move because […]
GAYS SAY TOM DALEY IS WORLD’S SEXIEST MAN
Readers of UK gay magazine Attitude have voted openly gay Olympic diver Tom Daley as the sexiest man in the world, for the second year in a row. The 20-year-old British sports sex symbol, who also scored the top spot in the annual poll last year, beat out English singer Shayne Ward, who took second […]
SA-BASED UGANDAN GAY ACTIVIST TO RECEIVE ELIZABETH TAYLOR AWARD
Dr Paul Semugoma, the Ugandan gay activist who was embroiled in an immigration drama at O.R. Tambo airport in February, is to receive the Elizabeth Taylor Human Rights Award. The award is in recognition of his work as a leader and advocate for human rights in the field of HIV/AIDS. Semugoma came out as gay […]
2ND MPUMALANGA GAY PRIDE ANNOUNCED
The province of Mpumalanga, which has never before held a Pride march, will make history this year by hosting not just one LGBTI Pride event but two. On Tuesday we reported that the first ever Mpumalanga Gay Pride March will take place on Saturday 6 September in the town of Ermelo. We’ve since been contacted […]
TUTU A ‘SON OF SATAN’ FOR SUPPORTING GAYS, EUTHANASIA
The conservative Christian Democratic Party (CDP) has condemned Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu’s support for assisted suicide and gay marriage, calling him “a son of Satan”. In an opinion piece for the UK’s Observer last weekend, Tutu wrote: “I do not want artificial feeding or to be on an artificial breathing machine – I don’t want […]
CROATIA GAY COUPLES CELEBRATE VICTORY
Gay couples in Croatia are celebrating after finally being granted legal recognition of their relationships. On Tuesday, Croatia’s parliament passed a Law on Life Partnership, giving same-sex unions most of the same rights that married couples enjoy. The law was overwhelmingly passed with 89 votes for and 16 against, reports ILGA Europe. The move comes […]
JAMES FRANCO AND ZACHARY QUINTO TO PLAY EX-LOVERS
Honorary gay James Franco and openly gay Star Trek and American Horror Story star Zachary Quinto will play former lovers in a new film. On Monday, Variety announced that Quinto had joined the cast of Michael, a film about an anti-gay pastor who used to be gay. No doubt set to be controversial, it tells […]
AUSSIES REVEAL EXTENT OF SPORTS HOMOPHOBIA
A new study has revealed the shocking scale of sports homophobia experienced by both sportsmen and fans in Australia. Preliminary results from the first national study on homophobia in Australian sport found that 85% of LGB (lesbian, gay and bisexual) people and 75% of heterosexual participants had witnessed or experienced homophobia in a sporting environment […]
MINISTER SETS SELF ON FIRE OVER INEQUALITY
A retired American Methodist minister has set himself on fire in a desperate and fatal attempt to highlight homophobia, racism and other inequalities in the world. On June 23, Reverend Charles Moore, 79, drove to his home town of Grand Saline in Texas. He parked his car outside a shopping centre, doused himself in petrol […]