OPINION: GRAPPLING WITH GAUTENG’S PRIDE PROBLEM
It’s Johannesburg (read Sandton) Pride again on the 25th of October and it has reminded Dylan van Vuuren and Gabriel Hoosain Khan of a discussion they don’t believe our community has completely dealt with. And we do need closure on our Pride problems, they say. Van Vuuren and Khan ask you to join them in an attempt […]
ADVERTORIAL: DOUBLE TROUBLE CHIN!
As Churchill grew older, so did his multiple chins – along with the expansion of his waist. Although it’s rather funny to look at, it’s also obvious that there were no hi-tech rejuvenation or slimming clinics in those days. Can you imagine that macho guy in a beauty clinic, complete with cigar and a glass […]
PRETORIA PRIDE 2014 GALLERY 3
Here’s our third and final Pretoria Pride 2014 gallery. These images are courtesy of photographer Joffree Hyman. • Go to our first Pretoria Pride 2014 gallery. • Go to our second Pretoria Pride 2014 gallery.
A CONFESSION: LETTING MY GUARD DOWN
Shortly before my 28th birthday, I discovered that a friend of mine was HIV positive. He wasn’t a very close friend, but I knew him quite well and it came as a shock to me because he was well educated, intelligent and financially established in the world, and I believed that people like him did […]
2014 MISS BLACK PRIDE PARTY GALLERY
The annual 2014 Miss Black Pride drag and transgender pageant and after-party was recently held at club Simply Blue in Johannesburg. The winner was 30-year-old Elliot Mohibedi Monale, also known as Thibi, a mining and exploration geologist who hails from Rhenosterkraal, Rustenburg. Lauren Hassiem took these pictures of the event, now in its ninth year.
PRETORIA PRIDE 2014 GALLERY 2
Around 5,000 LGBT people and their friends marched through Centurion in Pretoria for the second annual Pretoria Pride on Saturday, demanding acceptance and celebrating diversity. While there were few signs of obvious activism, the colourful celebration undoubtedly made an impact in the traditionally conservative city. The event continued into the evening at the Centurion Rugby […]
PRETORIA PRIDE 2014 GALLERY 1
Around 5,000 LGBT people and their friends marched through Centurion in Pretoria for the second annual Pretoria Pride on Saturday, demanding acceptance and celebrating diversity. While there were few signs of obvious activism, the colourful celebration undoubtedly made an impact in the traditionally conservative city. The event continued into the evening at the Centurion Rugby […]
UJ’S THATSOQUEER FESTIVAL TO ‘GENDERQUERY’ THE ARTS
The University of Johannesburg (UJ) is hosting its fourth annual LGBTI arts festival, dubbed THATSOQUEER, this October. According to the Artistic Director of the festival, Alby Michaels who was also responsible for “Reading Gay” in 2011 as well as the 2012 and 2013 instalments of “THATSOGAY”, the initial plan was to evolve the name of […]
THE RISE OF THE BEARS
I’m usually a reluctant and late follower of fashion trends. I remember thinking the cardigan would never catch on again, and I held on to my silver sneakers for much longer than was acceptable. I can never predict, despite six years among the hipsters of Cape Town, what the next big ironically hideous must-have of […]
SOWETO PRIDE 2014 GALLERY
Hundreds turned out to march for LGBT equality in Soweto on Saturday in the face of ongoing hate crime attacks against the community. They also celebrated the historic tenth anniversary of the annual Soweto Pride March. According to Thuli Ncube from FEW, the march’s organisers, this was the biggest in the event’s history. “It was […]