WHY WAS SA NOT AT UN GAY MEETING?
An unprecedented meeting of government ministers on September 26 called for urgent action to end the scourge of violence and discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. But where was South Africa? The meeting of officials from close to a dozen countries – known as the LGBT Core Group at the UN in […]
RIVAL PASTAS ARE GAY FRIENDLY
Two pasta companies have come out in support of the gay community in response to rival brand Barilla’s recent homophobic public relations disaster. Guido Barilla, chairman of Italy’s top-selling Barilla pasta unleashed an international firestorm last week when he said that he would never produce a gay-friendly advert for the company and that he was […]
CRISTIANO’S NEW UNDERWEAR LABEL
Portuguese football stud Cristiano Ronaldo is planning to give David Beckham a run for his money. Ronaldo has released images and a video promoting his own underwear label, named CR7. According to the CR7 website, the collection was developed as a collaboration between Ronaldo and New York-based designer Richard Chai and will be produced by […]
ANGER AS BELGRADE PRIDE BANNED
The Serbian authorities have been slammed for banning a planned Belgrade Pride March for the third year in a row. The event was set to take place on Saturday 28 September. As in previous years, the authorities justified the ban by claiming that threats from right wing groups made the march a danger to public […]
2013 MCQP THEME REVEALED
The theme for this year’s Mother City Queer Project (MCQP) party was revealed in Cape Town on Friday night. Round up your entourage, dowse them in glitter and come and have a roll in the galactic hay on Saturday 14 December at the Cape Town Stadium – all under the banner of “Space Cowboys”! Event […]
SANDF REJECTED GAY TROOPS
A colonel in the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) has been accused of ending the military careers of recruits because they were gay or lesbian. Cape Town based LGBT rights group Triangle Project and the SA National Defence Union (SANDU) have revealed that they have been gathering evidence on alleged discriminatory homophobia by Lieutenant-Colonel […]
PASTA COMPANY IN HOT WATER
A leading Italian pasta company says that it would rather have gay people eat another brand of pasta than having to depict a gay family in its ads. The Independent reported that Barilla chairman Guido Barilla stated in an Italian radio interview: “I would never do an advert with a homosexual family… if the gays […]
IOC: RUSSIAN ANTI-GAY LAW OK
The International Olympic Committee (IOC), the governing body of the Olympic Games, has announced it is “fully satisfied” that Russia’s anti-gay propaganda law does not violate the anti-discrimination guarantees of the Olympic charter. IOC coordination committee chairman Jean-Claude Killy made the statement at a press conference on Thursday. He dismissed concerns about the law by […]
LESBIAN ROWER BREAKS RECORD
An openly lesbian British rower has become the first woman to row solo from Japan to Alaska, a distance of over 6,000 kilometres. Sarah Outen not only completed the arduous feat after 150 days at sea but also got engaged to her girlfriend during her amazing journey. “I have had some of the most intense […]
MCKELLEN AGAINST OLYMPIC BOYCOTT
Openly gay Lord of the Rings and X-Men actor and long-time LGBTI activist Sir Ian McKellen says that he’s against a boycott of Russia’s Winter Olympic Games. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, McKellen (74) described President Vladimir Putin’s gay propaganda law as “the worst thing to have come out of Russia for […]