Logistics student from Soweto is Miss Gay Jozi 2016
A dazzling 21-year-old logistics student from Soweto has been crowned Johannesburg’s most glittering queen at the fourth annual Miss Gay Jozi 2016 pageant. Roxy Msizi from Chiawelo, Soweto, walked away with the coveted title at the historic City Hall on Saturday night. An early frontrunner and a crowd favorite, Roxy wowed the audience with her […]
Unacceptable! MultiChoice agrees to ban Caitlyn Jenner reality show over Nigerian complaints
No matter where you are in Africa (including South Africa), you’ll no longer be able to watch Caitlyn Jenner’s reality show I Am Cait. South African-owned pay-TV broadcaster MultiChoice has again shamefully put profit before ethics, erasing the programme from its pan-African schedule to appease homophobes and transphobes. According to Nigerian media, the move follows […]
Watch: Cape Town gay couple get engaged as they’re serenaded by Adele
In a stunning romantic coup, a gay Cape Town couple have gotten engaged at an Adele concert – with the star’s help! The record-breaking Grammy-winning British singer invited Ross Levin and Nicholas Markovitz on stage at her show in Barcelona on Tuesday Night. As she sang Make You Feel My Love, Ross got down on one […]
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 […]