ROWEN BAILEY: PORN THIS WAY
Twenty-four-year-old Joburger Rowen Bailey is well on his way to becoming South Africa’s very own international gay porn star. He sat down with Mambaonline to give us the scoop on his adult film escapades.
FAIRY TALES OF LOVE & FAITHFULNESS
Are we capable of being faithful? Is there a knight in shining armour for us? Thanks to all those fairy tales we’re told, Al Mackay had assumed that once you’d fallen in love you’d automatically lose interest in sex with other people…
UGANDA LGBI CLINIC UNDER FIRE
Gay rights activists have opened Uganda’s first clinic for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people in the capital, Kampala, but the government is threatening to shut it down.
MAMBA SPINS
The latest music, including releases from gay icons Scissor Sisters, pop-indie band fun., local songstress ChianoSky, crooner John Mayer, quirky singer / songwriter Regina Spektor and the genre-defying SA band Lonehill Estate.
WHATEVER…
Young gay men are becoming increasingly complacent about HIV and AIDS. Is it because treatment is available or could deeper issues related to our identity and self-worth be at play, asks psychologist Jacques Livingston.
OUT IN AFRICA’S HOT WINTER LINE-UP
The second instalment of the 19th Out In Africa Gay and Lesbian Film Festival runs from 27 July to 5 August in Cape Town and Joburg. It offers an impressive line-up of queer films to keep you warm this winter.
THE GAYEST COACH TOUR ON EARTH
Remember the movie Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert? Ever, wished such a coach tour really existed with full drag and costume every day across the country? Well it’s real, honey!
EXCLUSIVE: FIDDLING WHILE LGBTIS ARE MURDERED
It’s been over a year since the LGBTI crimes task team was announced. So why does it seem like so little has been accomplished – despite LGBTI people being murdered at a frightening rate? Mambaonline investigates.
BI NOW, GAY LATER
The gay community’s distrust of bisexuals has gone so far as to become a prejudice. We seem incapable of accepting the ambiguity, of accepting that some people are genuinely attracted to both men and women in equal parts, writes Al Mackay.
AFRICA’S FIRST GAY POLITICAL PARTY LAUNCHED
An LGBTI political party has been launched in South Africa, the first in Africa. Critics, however, question if it can work or even secure a seat in parliament. Mambaonline spoke to the party’s founder.