GAY SHOW FALTERS AS ELLEN’S LESBIAN COMEDY STEPS IN
While one American gay themed sitcom was cancelled this week, another, about a lesbian mom, produced by Ellen DeGeneres, is moving forward. The Hollywood Reporter revealed on Tuesday that the NBC network has ordered a pilot episode for the new television show, One Big Happy. The comedy, executive produced by the openly lesbian comedienne and […]
NIGERIA: GAY TRIALS COULD BE HELD IN SECRET
Two Islamic courts in Nigeria may hold their trials of 10 men charged with homosexuality in secret to avoid more mob violence. Last week, police were forced to use tear gas and fire shots into the air to disperse a mob throwing stones at seven men accused of homosexuality outside a Sharia court in the […]
RIGHT-WING BACKLASH AT GAY GRAMMY WEDDINGS
Sunday night’s mass wedding at the Grammys, which was broadcast live on television during rappers Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ performance of their song Same Love, has outraged conservatives in the United States. The music award ceremony saw 33 couples – both gay and straight – being married near the stage by talk show host Queen Latifah […]
TYCOON’S DAUGHTER: PLEASE ACCEPT ME
The lesbian daughter of a Hong Kong billionaire who’s publicly offered millions to any man who can turn her straight has written an open letter to her dad. Property tycoon Cecil Chao (77) first issued the headline-making HK$500million (around R7 billion) offer two years ago, leading to 20,000 would be suitors coming forward. His daughter […]
COKE APOLOGISES FOR ‘SHARE A COKE’ GAY GAFFE
Coca-Cola has apologised for its “Share a Coke” online campaign’s ban on the word “gay,” an issue it says was limited to South Africa. The campaign’s website allowed members of the public to type a name or word onto a virtual coke can and share it on social media. However, when one tried to enter […]
KYRGYZSTAN POLICE “ABUSED, RAPED ME”
Human Rights Watch has accused police in the former soviet state of Kyrgyzstan of arbitrarily detaining, beating and sexually abusing gay and bisexual men. Although consensual sex between men was decriminalised in Kyrgyzstan in 1998, police continue to target gay and bisexual men with violence and extortion, the organisation said in a report released on […]
DISNEY CHANNEL DEBUTS 1ST GAY CHARACTERS
America’s Disney Channel has for the first time included LGBT characters in one of its shows. On Sunday, an episode of the family sitcom Good Luck Charlie introduced a family headed by two lesbian mothers. In the episode, lead characters Amy and Bob Duncan (Leigh-Allyn Baker and Eric Allan Kramer) arrange a play date for […]
MOB ATTACKS GAY RIGHTS GROUP OFFICES
A group of around 200 people have attacked the offices of the Ivory Coast’s leading LGBT rights group. The mob broke windows and ransacked and robbed the headquarters of the Alternative Cote d’Ivoire organisation in Abidjan on Saturday. According to AP, trash was strewn around the premises and thugs placed signs on the walls that […]
MAMPHELA RAMPHELE IS DA’S PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
The upcoming national elections are shaping up to be a milestone event for South Africa. Mamphela Ramphele, the gay-affirming head of the Agang political party, has confirmed that she will stand as the DA’s Presidential Candidate for the 2014 elections. She, together with DA leader Helen Zille, made the announcement at a news conference in […]
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN NOW AN OPERA
Gay cowboy love is coming to the highbrow world of opera. A new stage adaptation of the short story and acclaimed film Brokeback Mountain is set to open in Spain The tale of doomed love between two American cowboys started life as a 1997 short story of the same name by Annie Proulx and went […]