A GAY AFRICAN LOVE STORY
On a continent where homosexuality is often seen as foreign and unnatural, Tshepo and Thoba are loudly proclaiming their love for each other. Meet this proudly gay couple who’re engaged to marry and determined to live and love openly in Africa.
NEW POPE COULD BE EQUALLY HOMOPHOBIC
The shock resignation of the homophobic Pope Benedict XVI has brought hope to LGBT Catholics around the world, but many of the top contenders for his position are equally conservative, writes Luiz De Barros.
LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHANGE
Fate has an unhealthy predilection for making us eat our words. Al Mackay always swore that he’d never get into a long distance relationship. Now, as fate would have it, he’s found himself in just such an arrangement.
MOTORING: URBAN CHIC – AUDI Q3
It’s no secret that the SUV segments are the fastest-growing in the local motor industry. And so, Brent Ellis tries out Audi’s new rather expensive Q3 SUV. It leaves him wondering what the point of it is really.
IN WHOM CAN I STILL TRUST?
The Cape Town Holocaust Centre is hosting a major new international exhibition in the Mother City that explores the largely undocumented Nazi persecution of homosexuals. It will also include films, a play, launches and public talks.
WHAT MAKES GAY RELATIONSHIPS DIFFERENT?
When I was asked to write an article on relationships I cringed, not because I’m relationship-phobic but because I have come to realise that Psychology textbooks seldom speak to the variation of same-sex relationships.
MAMBA SPINS
The girls are doin’ it for themselves! Kick of the new year with the latest releases from Christina Aguilera, Ke$ha, Alicia Keys and Rihanna. Plus, One Direction, and the Ministry Of Sound’s Cape Town Sessions.
INTERVIEW: NICHOLAS MCCARTHY
Born with one hand, the award-winning, openly-gay British musician Nicholas McCarthy is bringing his talents to South Africa. The world’s youngest left-handed concert pianist spoke to Mambaonline about his astounding career.
MY FIRST GAY WEDDING
Al Mackay missed out on his annual ritual of partying at MCQP to attend his first gay wedding. He questions if same-sex marriages will ever stop being political statements and if we’ve liberated ourselves into a new set of social norms.
ON THE COMMON SENSE BIGOTRY OF STEPHEN MULHOLLAND
Constitutional expert Pierre de Vos takes umbrage with Stephen Mulholland’s recent Sunday Times article, in which he wrote that same-sex families are neither “the norm nor ultimately desirable”.