SHOCK: NIGERIA TO JAIL ALL GAYS
Africa continues to slide further into a dark age for sexual minorities as the continent’s most populous nation enacts one of the world’s most oppressive anti-gay laws. On Monday, it was revealed that Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan had signed the Same Sex Marriage Prohibition and other Related Matters Bill, aptly dubbed the “Jail All the […]
AUSSIE STATES TO CLEAR GAY CONVICTIONS
Two Australian states are expected to expunge the criminal records of men who were convicted of homosexuality before it was legalised. The state of Victoria was the first to announce the news on Sunday when Premier Denis Napthine launched the 26th Midsumma Festival, an annual celebration of queer culture in Melbourne . “This is only fair, this […]
ISRAEL’S 1ST GAY HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL
The first Israeli memorial in honour of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people who were killed by the Nazis was unveiled on Friday in a Tel Aviv park. The triangular concrete plaque proclaims in English, Hebrew and German: “In memory of those persecuted by the Nazis regime for their sexual orientation and gender identity”. […]
LGBT ROLES SCORE GOLDEN GLOBES
Jared Leto and Michael Douglas each scooped a Golden Globe award in Beverly Hills on Sunday for playing LGBT characters. Leto (42), who’s received acclaim for his role as Rayon, an HIV positive transgender woman in the film Dallas Buyers Club, was honoured with the Best Supporting Actor in a motion picture award. “I’d like […]
FORMER GAY PRISONER ALLOWED TO DIE
Cameroonian Roger Jean Claude Mbede survived brutal imprisonment and torture for being gay but he couldn’t survive his family’s cruel condemnation. On Friday, the 34-year-old passed away after his family took him out of hospital, where he was being treated for a hernia, apparently because they believed he’d be better off dead than be gay. […]
GAY MARRIAGE FOR LUXEMBOURG
Is Luxembourg set to become the world’s most gay friendly country? The small European nation, which is already led by an openly gay prime minister, is planning to legalise same-sex marriage later this year. The President of Luxembourg’s Parliamentary Committee on Justice, Viviane Loschetter, has told RTL that a same-sex marriage bill is a priority […]
BLUE SINGER EXPERIMENTED WITH MEN
Boy band singer Lee Ryan has revealed that he sexually experimented with men in the past. Ryan is a member of the British band Blue, which has sold more 13 million records worldwide. The 30-year-old star, who is taking part in the UK’s Celebrity Big Brother, spoke about his sexuality during a conversation with fellow […]
HUNKY STAR NAKED IN ANTARCTICA
Alexander Skarsgard, the gorgeous star of True Blood, has posed in the buff while visiting the South Pole, and shared the pictures with the world. One photo shows the naked 37-year-old Swedish-born actor wearing sunglasses and reading while sitting on a toilet amidst the ice and snow. Posted on Instagram, the picture’s caption reads: “#southpole -30C […]
MUGABE ‘GAY INSULT’ CHARGES DROPPED
Charges against a former Zimbabwean MP, who allegedly claimed that President Robert Mugabe had gay sex, have been dropped. Lynette Karenyi, of the Movement for Democratic Change, was arrested in December 2011 after she allegedly “insulted” the notoriously homophobic president at a rally at the Nhedziwa football grounds in Chimanimani. Prosecutors claimed that she said that “Robert […]
YEMEN GAY MURDERS CONTINUE
There’s been a report from Yemen of another man being gunned down, in a drive-by shooting, because he was suspected of being gay. According to YemenOnline, a security official said that 25-year-old Waleed Saleh Awedan was shot dead near his home in the south of the country by a man on a motorbike, thought to be […]