12 tips for safer online hook-ups
Cruising and hooking up online, especially with someone you’ve never met before, could place you in a very vulnerable space. This is a time to be alert and vigilant; taking care of a few basics before you agree to meet a potential partner will ensure a more relaxed and pleasurable session, and help to reduce […]
Straight to bed!
I’m on the Gautrain. A ridiculously snacky homie in tracksuit pants (nicely filled by his legs and ass) hops on. I totally miss the goose climbing on with him – he’s that dishy. Against my better judgement, I rummage in my bag for my phone so as to capture a prize snap… except said goose is […]
Opinion: Repositioning the gay rights debate in Africa
Over the past few years, we have seen an explosion of arguments for and against gay rights in Africa. Those in favour of gay rights point out that they can help to protect sexual minorities by making discrimination illegal, in the process making societies more equitable. Those opposed to gay rights allege that homosexuality only […]
Pretoria Pride 2015 Gallery 2
An estimated 8,000 people braved the searing October sun in near-heatwave conditions to celebrate the third Pretoria LGBT Pride at the Centurion Rugby Club on Saturday. Starting at noon, LGBT people and their friends and family paraded through the streets of the CBD, waving rainbow flags and wearing colourful outfits and t-shirts with LGBT affirming […]
Pretoria Pride 2015 Gallery 1
An estimated 8,000 people braved the searing October sun in near-heatwave conditions to celebrate the third Pretoria LGBT Pride at the Centurion Rugby Club on Saturday. Starting at noon, LGBT people and their friends and family paraded through the streets of the CBD, waving rainbow flags and wearing colourful outfits and t-shirts with LGBT affirming […]
Mamba’s Sexiest Man Survey, brought to you by We The Brave
Here they are! Our thirteen home-grown hunks vying for the title of Mambaonline’s Sexiest Man 2015, brought to you by We The Brave. These male celebrities from the local entertainment world – some well-known, others on the rise – excel in areas such as singing, dancing, acting, TV presenting, modelling and there’s even a blogger. […]
Soweto Pride 2015 Gallery
Hundreds of proudly LGBT South Africans demanded an end to hate crimes at Soweto Pride 2015 this past weekend. The event returned to Meadowlands, the location of the brutal 2007 double murder of lesbians Sizakele Sigasa and Salome Masooa. The venue had special significance in light of this year’s theme, “Our Lives Matter – Safety, Justice […]
MSM community project leaves a legacy of love
When it started, volunteers named it “Boithato,” or “love” in Sesotho. Almost five years later, one of Mpumalanga’s few projects aimed at preventing HIV among men who have sex with men (MSM) has shuttered its doors but for many men, it may have left a legacy of love. Launched in 2011 by the Johannesburg-based Anova […]
Gallery: Alexandros Kaltsidis models Modus Vivendi underwear
Underwear label Modus Vivendi has launched its Weekly Line with a new campaign photographed by Joan Crisol in Madrid. Check out the campaign photos below and revel in the sheer manliness that is hunky international model Konstantin Kamynin.
What gay fathers can teach us about feminism and parenthood
Once upon a (fairly recent) time, fathers went out to work and paid the bills while mothers stayed home to raise children and kept the house spotless. But this nuclear family model – a heterosexual man and a heterosexual woman with children – has begun to change in the past few decades. Many men in […]