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South Africa LGBTIQ+ Rights Watch: January 2024

An overview of LGBTIQ+ rights violations, hate speech incidents and case updates in South Africa in January 2024, collated by OUT and Mamba.

Friends, family, and community members gathered in Delft, Cape Town, last week to honour 21-year-old LGBTIQA+ hate crime victim Diego Jacobs.

Relationships among gay and bi men are as diverse as the individuals involved. Here are some of the many types of connections guys can have.

The Assistant High Commissioner for Protection at the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) recently met with LGBTQI+ asylum seekers in South Africa.

Religious homophobes are backing a Christian law student who was suspended for disrupting a student orientation talk on LGBTQIA+ inclusion.

Wits students joined LGBTIQ+ activists at the court hearing on Monday of seven men accused of the attack of a student lured through Grindr.

A court run by the Houthi group in Yemen has reportedly sentenced 13 individuals to be executed in public on charges of homosexuality.

Caster Semenya says her case in the European Court of Human Rights is for all athletes discriminated against by unfair gender restrictions.

Activists say the brutal murder of 21-year-old Diego Jacobs in Cape Town underscores the need to enact the Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill.

Enrique Grobbelaar was once adamant about not wanting children. Today he’s a loving gay dad and part of a growing number of rainbow families.