HEADLINES
STRAIGHT TRUE BLOOD CHARACTER TO HAVE GAY AFFAIR:
It’s been revealed that a straight character in the popular vampire series will have a gay affair in the show's new season.
HONG KONG HIRES GAY CURE DOCTOR:
Gay activists are outraged after it was reported that Hong Kong hired a 'gay cure' doctor to train government counsellors.
NEW MR. GAY SOUTH AFRICA LOGO UNVEILED:
A new logo for the Mr. Gay South Africa pageant has been chosen through a nationwide competition, in which more than 50 entries were received.
WATCH GAGA’S ‘EDGE OF GLORY’ VIDEO:
Lady Gaga has premiered the video for Edge of Glory, the third single from her hit album Born This Way. Love it or hate it?
MR. GAY WORLD’S YOUTH DAY MESSAGE:
Commemorating National Youth Day on Thursday, Mr. Gay World Francois Nel urged LGBTI youth in South Africa to "find your talents and build your dreams".
NO PLACE FOR HOMOPHOBIA IN RAINBOW NATION:
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has condemned the scourge of corrective rape in South Africa.
DAN CHOI RIPS UP OBAMA PAMPHLET:
Former US military lieutenant Dan Choi has slammed President Obama's failure to support gay-marriage and angrily ripped up an Obama campaign flyer.
FORMER MR. GAY UK CLEARED OF RAPE CHARGES:
Police officer and Mr. Gay UK 2006 Mark Carter has been cleared of rape and sexual assault charges by a British court.
LGBT HATE CRIMES TASK TEAM MOVES FORWARD:
There's been progress in deciding on which activist groups will sit on the proposed LGBT hate crimes task team.
SAHRC CONSIDERS OPPOSING QWELANE APPEAL:
The South African Human Rights Commission is still considering whether it will oppose Jon Qwelane's efforts to rescind a judgment that found him guilt of hate speech.
X-MEN WRITER CONFIRMS LGBT SUBTEXT:
One of the writers of X-Men: First Class has confirmed that the film was purposefully written, at least in part, as an allegory of the struggles of the LGBT community.
BBC DEFENDS GAY BEDROOM SCENE:
The BBC has defended its broadcast of a gay bedroom scene in the soap series EastEnders after receiving around 125 complaints from viewers.
GAY PROP 8 JUDGE VINDICATED:
An attempt to reverse a gay judge's ruling that California's Prop 8 ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional has been rejected.
FRENCH PARLIAMENT REJECTS GAY MARRIAGE:
France's parliament has rejected a bill that sought to legalise same-sex marriage in that country.
GAY ADOPTION ON THE RISE IN US:
Despite legal hurdles in many states, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of gay and lesbian couples adopting children in the US.
ANOTHER LESBIAN BLOGGER ALSO A STRAIGHT MAN:
In the wake of the scandal surrounding the "Gay Girl in Damascus" blog, the 'female' editor of a well-known lesbian site had admitted that he is also a straight man.
LESBIAN SURVIVES HATE CRIME STABBING:
A lesbian woman in the Crossroads informal settlement, near Cape Town, has survived being stabbed by men who taunted her for being lesbian.
SYRIAN LESBIAN BLOGGER IS AMERICAN MAN:
A 40-year-old American man has confessed to being the mysterious lesbian blogger who it was feared had been abducted by Syrian security forces in Damascus.
GAGA PERFORMS, SPEAKS AT EUROPRIDE:
Lady Gaga performed two songs at Saturday's Europride in Rome and spoke out for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality in the world.
ZACKIE ACHMAT DIVORCES HUSBAND:
Internationally recognised AIDS activist Zackie Achmat, one of the country's best-known openly gay men, has split from his husband of three years.