GAY ART EXHIBIT ATTACKED & BANNED IN SENEGAL
A groundbreaking exhibition of LGBTI African art has been banned by the authorities in Senegal after an attack on the gallery. The exhibition, Precarious Imaging: Visibility and Media Surrounding African Queerness, opened on 11 May as part of the informal programme for Dak’Art 2014, the 11th Biennale of Contemporary African Art. The Art Newspaper reported […]
WATCH PRINCIPAL COMING OUT AS GAY TO SCHOOL
The principal of the largest public high school in Washington DC has come out as a gay man to his students and staff. Speaking at a lunchtime Pride Day event at Wilson High School on Wednesday, Principal Pete Cahall, revealed that he had “hid in the shadows but I am liberated today,” reports The Washington […]
SLOVAKIA BANS GAY MARRIAGE IN ‘BACKROOM DEAL’
In what’s been described as a “backroom deal,” MPs in the Slovakian parliament have voted to outlaw same-sex marriage in the European country. One Wednesday, MPs from SMER (Social-Democrats) and KDH (Christian-Democrats) voted to define marriage as a “unique bond between a man and a woman” in the Constitution. According to the European Parliament’s Intergroup […]
WATCH: RESTAURANT PATRONS REACT TO GAY PDA
You’ll be horrified at how restaurant patrons reacted when an American hidden camera TV show planted an affectionate gay couple in their midst. Hosted by John Quiñones, What Would You Do? is a television news magazine programme that depicts how people respond to a variety of staged scenarios. In an episode last week, the show […]
WE LOVE JOSH HARTNETT’S GAY SMOOCH
American heartthrob Josh Hartnett has wowed his gay fans after he unexpectedly kissed fellow actor Reeve Carney in the horror TV show Penny Dreadful. In the fifth episode of the eight part series, Hartnett’s daring man of action Ethan Chandler dramatically grabs Carney’s Dorian Gray for a passionate man on man kiss. The men then start disrobing as they […]
ACTOR FIRED FOR CONFRONTING HOMOPHOBE IN AUDIENCE
A theatre performance went horribly wrong when a member of the audience began shouting out anti-gay slurs at the actors. On Saturday, the abusive man twice yelled out “fag” during a performance of Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in Santa Clara, California. Actor John Lacy, who played the role of Big Daddy, […]
GAY RESOURCE FOR SCHOOL TEACHERS LAUNCHED IN KZN
A hands-on, easy-to-use school curriculum training module on LGBTI issues for teachers to use in the classroom has been launched in Durban. The module was developed as the culmination of a study initiated by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Head of the College of Humanities, Professor Cheryl Potgieter, and Co-Principal Investigators, Drs. Thabo Msibi and Finn […]
17 DAYS OF PINK CINEMA IN DURBAN
This year’s annual Durban Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (DGLFF) takes place at the KZNSA Gallery, in Glenwood, from Friday 20 June to Sunday 6 July 2014. Established in 2011, the festival has become a fixture on Durban’s pink calendar and this year it once again coincides with Durban Pride, which takes place on Saturday […]
GALLERY: LESOTHO GAYS MARCH FOR EQUALITY
Lesotho’s LGBT community marked the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT) on May 17 by holding a colourful march through Maseru. Around 200 people took part in the procession, which concluded with speeches and performances at the Maseru Club. Organised by LGBT rights organisation, the Matrix Support Group, the gathering follows on last year’s […]
FACEBOOK LAUNCHES GAY PRIDE EMOTICONS
To celebrate Pride month in the US and other countries, Facebook has released 28 colourful gay themed emoticons for use in its messages and chats. The emoticons, or stickers as Facebook calls them, include gay sailors, a drag queen, marrying same-sex couples, plenty of rainbow imagery, a leather daddy and proud parents of a gay […]