CLOSET SET FOR GRAND OPENING TONIGHT
One of the biggest events on this year’s queer social calendar is taking place tonight (Friday, 9 May) as Joburg’s new gay super club, Closet, opens in Fourways. The venue will be the city’s largest gay nightspot, offering a stylish lounge bar, nightclub and “fantasy playground” experience. Tonight’s opening will feature a live performance by […]
NEIL PATRICK HARRIS GOES NAKED FOR ROLLING STONE
Openly gay American actor Neil Patrick Harris has posed in his birthday suit for the new issue of Rolling Stone magazine. Harris, 40, appears naked on the cover, wearing nothing but a bow tie and with a top hat covering his crotch (leading us to wonder what’s actually holding it up). In an interview, Harris […]
NINTENDO’S IGNORANT RESPONSE TO GAY GAME CAMPAIGN
Japanese game maker Nintendo has woefully attempted to address calls for it to include gay characters in one of its upcoming games. A gay gamer, Timothy Wright, launched a petition urging Nintendo to allow the avatars (known as Miis) in the new English version of its life simulator game Tomodachi Life to flirt, go on […]
UK GOV SLAMMED OVER MUSEVENI’S LONDON BUSINESS VISIT
Uganda’s President Museveni has faced fierce protests during his visit to London over his signing of the Anti-Homosexual Act in February. On Wednesday night, the St James’ Court Hotel, where Museveni was speaking to Ugandan community and business leaders based in the UK, was besieged by LGBT Ugandans and their supporters in a noisy protest […]
GAY STUDENT’S SUICIDE INSPIRED MONICA LEWINSKI TO SPEAK OUT
Monica Lewinsky, the former White House aide who had oral sex with President Bill Clinton, has revealed that the suicide of a gay student led her to speak out. In a new Vanity Fair article about the 1998 scandal, which almost led to Clinton’s impeachment, Lewinsky for the first time gives her side of the […]
SO, HOW DOES ZAC EFRON LOOK IN DRAG?
Hollywood heartthrob Zan Efron has dressed up in drag. So, how does he fare as a “woman?” Efron, whose gorgeous face and muscled body have been causing boys and girls the world over to hold in their drool, posted pictures of himself as his new drag persona, Britney Anderson, on Instagram on Wednesday. We think […]
OSCAR PARTY MOVED FROM ANTI-GAY SULTAN’S HOTEL
A major Hollywood charity event has been moved from a Los Angeles hotel because of its ties to the Sultan of Brunei, who instituted a new anti-gay penal code in his country. The Motion Picture & Television Fund (MPTF), which holds the annual star-studded The Night Before the Oscars event, met with the Dorchester Collection’s […]
X-MEN DIRECTOR IN ANOTHER TEEN SEX LAWSUIT
Already facing earlier claims of sexual abusing a teenage boy, the openly gay director of the upcoming new X-Men film has been hit by fresh accusations. On Monday, a 25-year-old British man claimed that A-list director Bryan Singer, along with Broadway musical producer Gary Goddard, sexually abused him at a London hotel when he was 17-years-old. […]
PINK LOERIE TAKES OVER KNYSNA, GIVES BACK TO CHARITY
The 14th annual Pink Loerie Festival came to a colourful close on Saturday afternoon with the customary parade that brought out local and visiting gays and lesbians onto the streets of Knysna. The marchers, floats, spectators and many of the shop fronts donned pink for the occasion; a celebration of diversity and of the LGBTI […]
PINK LOERIE 2014 PARADE GALLERY
The annual Pink Loerie Festival came to a colourful close on Saturday with a parade that brought out local and visiting gays and lesbians onto the streets of Knysna. Liesl Percy Lancaster from The House of Lancaster Artworks was there to take these striking images.