EXCLUSIVE: CLOSET SNEAK PEAK GALLERY
Wanna get an exclusive sneak peak at Closet, Joburg’s new gay superclub that’s set to open this weekend (Friday 9 May)? We got the chance to check out the venue’s trial run as it geared up for the big day. And we’re really excited! It’s about time we had a world class gay venue in […]
CONTROVERSIAL GAY BISHOP TO DIVORCE HUSBAND
Gene Robinson, who rocked the Anglican Church when he became Christianity’s first openly gay Bishop, is divorcing his husband. He announced the split with Mark Andrew, his partner of 25 years, in a statement on Saturday. “As you can imagine, this is a difficult time for us – not a decision entered into lightly or […]
GAY SA ARTIST GUILTY OF EXHIBITIONISM
An openly gay South African artist who put on a semi-nude public performance piece in Paris last year has been found guilty of sexual exhibitionism. In September 2013, the controversial Steven Cohen caused a stir when he performed the piece in a corset and platform shoes at the Place du Trocadero in the French capital. […]
RICHARD BRANSON BOYCOTTS HOTEL CHAIN OVER GAY STONING LAW
Richard Branson has announced that he and his Virgin group of companies will boycott a hotel chain owned by the anti-gay Sultan of Brunei. Last week, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, the absolute ruler of Brunei, announced the implementation of a new Islamic sharia penal code that will allow for the stoning to death of gays and […]
GEORGE TAKEI, BOY GEORGE & KYLIE AT GLAAD MEDIA AWARDS
Openly gay Star Trek actor George Takei was honoured at the star-studded 25th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in New York on Saturday, while Kylie Minogue wowed the crowd with an a cappella performance. Takei, who played the iconic role of Sulu in the original Star Trek franchise, was awarded the Vito Russo Award, which is […]
ZAVION OUT OF SURVIVOR
Openly gay Zavion Kotze, 25, has become the 16th contestant to leave the Survivor South Africa island. On Sunday night’s episode of the reality contest, the hunky Zavion was outplayed by Sivu Xabanisa, 23, an astrophysics student from Cape Town, who used a hidden immunity idol to stay in the game. This now leaves four […]
THE MEN OF LOOKING
Looking, which has been described as a grittier version of Queer as Folk, is being screened by DSTV in South Africa this May and June. The pay satellite broadcaster has been criticised by the gay community over the years for never screening the popular Queer as Folk (which has to date still never been shown on […]
SCIENTISTS: GAY MEN RESPOND TO MALE PHEROMONES
Chinese scientists have found that gay men respond to male pheromones in the same way that heterosexual women do. The study adds to growing evidence that same-sex attraction is at least partly biological. The scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences sought to test recent evidence that people are influenced by sex pheromones in their sexual interactions […]
BRUNEI ENTERS DARK AGES
As from this month, gays and lesbians now face being stoned to death in the nation of Brunei, the first to enact Islamic sharia law in East Asia. On Wednesday, the Sultan of Brunei, Hassanal Bolkiah, announced the implementation of a new sharia penal code from the 1st of May, news that Amnesty International described […]
DO STRAIGHT JOCKS LOVE TO CUDDLE?
A study of straight male student athletes has discovered that most of them apparently love to cuddle and spoon their mates. After conducting in-depth interviews with a group of British university-age male athletes, the researchers found that a whopping 98 percent have shared a bed with another guy. And 93 percent revealed that they had spooned or […]