Is it time that Captain America gets a boyfriend?
Following calls for Frozen’s Elsa to get a girlfriend, there’s now an online movement to see the hunky Captain America start dating a guy. The #GiveCaptainAmericaABoyfriend hashtag was trending on Tuesday, with many fans of the superhero urging Marvel to pair him up with his longtime pal Bucky Barnes, seen most recently in Captain America: Civil […]
Hollywood stars and SA icons honour Pieter-Dirk Uys
A new film about the life and work of openly gay performing artist and activist Pieter-Dirk Uys will be released in cinemas in July. In Nobody’s Died Laughing, a film crew tries to keep up with one of the hardest working artists in South Africa on a journey from Cape Town, Johannesburg, Grahamstown, Stellenbosch to […]
Awesome queer doccies at Encounters 2016 this June
The annual Encounters film festival is screening a selection of some of the world’s best queer documentaries. Now in its 18th year, Africa’s leading documentary festival takes place in Cape Town and Johannesburg from the 2nd to the 12th of June. In addition to 39 feature films and 18 shorts, it will also include workshops, […]
Did Prophet TB Joshua really see Brenda Fassie in hell?
It’s been reported that notorious Nigerian evangelist TB Joshua claims to have seen Brenda Fassie burning in hell. According to the site Imzansi, Joshua prayed to God asking him to show him hell and was granted the wish two weeks later. “I prayed for almost three hours. Suddenly I lost control of my body, my […]
Watch: Here’s your first look at the Rocky Horror Picture Show remake
Will it be awesome or an embarrassing flop? The first teaser for the upcoming remake of the cult classic Rocky Horror Picture Show is out! The original camp stage show and 1975 film continue to be cult crowd-pleasers around the world, with the role of the “transsexual” (and bisexual) fishnet-stockinged homicidal Frank-N-Furter, most famously played […]
Mariah Carey gives fabulous new explanation for the term LGBTQ
Music icon Mariah Carey has been awarded the Ally Award at the annual GLAAD Media Awards in New York. The singer, songwriter and actress was honoured on Saturday night for voicing her support for the LGBT community over the years, in particular backing marriage equality and campaigns against LGBT bullying. Fresh from her tour in […]
Jacaranda’s Rian van Heerden slammed in gays and God furore
Openly gay Jacaranda FM radio presenter Rian van Heerden has been vilified for saying that a homophobic God isn’t worth following. Van Heerden made the statement during the breakfast show on Wednesday after he brought up Johannesburg gay rugby team, the Jozi Cats, which has been in the media thanks to its controversial new ad […]
GaySA Radio drops Azealia Banks over homophobic tweets
Azealia Banks’ most recent racist and homophobic social media tirade against Zayn Malik has seen her thrown off Twitter and South Africa’s gay radio station. Earlier this week, the always controversial Banks, 24, claimed on the social media platform that Malik, 23, had stolen her ideas and looks for his new music video. Infuriated by […]
Watch: SA’s Keo Motsepe wows in Dancing with the Stars’ first same-sex dance
We’re oh so proud! South African dancer Keo Motsepe (along with sexually fluid model Nyle DiMarco) has featured in Dancing with the Stars‘ first ever same-sex dance. The groundbreaking Judges’ Team-Up Challenge routine was broadcast on Monday night’s episode of the popular American show. Four dancers – Motsepe, DiMarco, Full House star Jodie Sweetin and […]
Miss Gay Jozi returns for a night of glamour at City Hall
Johannesburg’s biggest and boldest drag pageant extravaganza, Miss Gay Jozi, returns for another sparkling outing on Saturday 28 May 2016 at the City Hall – and you’re invited to attend! The audience will be treated to a lineup of entertaining drag performances as well as the climactic crowning of one of the ten competing princesses […]