Alabama narrowly rejects homophobic child abuse-accused Roy Moore
Roy Moore, the bigoted anti-LGBTQ politician and disgraced former judge, has lost his Trump-supported bid to be elected as senator for the state of Alabama. Democrat and former US Federal Prosecutor Doug Jones won the divisive and extremely tight poll, scoring 49.9% to 48.4% of the votes. The result is a major blow to President Trump who […]
Botswana | Another victory for transgender rights
For the second time this year, the Botswana High Court has ordered the state to legally recognise the gender identity of a transgender person. On Tuesday, in Gaborone, Justice Leatile Dambe told the national registrar to change Tshepo Ricki Kgositau’s gender from male to female in the national registry. Dambe also ordered the director of […]
New research adds to evidence that we are born gay
Groundbreaking research led by a team from Brock University in Canada has further confirmed that sexual orientation for men is likely determined in the womb and that we are ‘born gay’. The research is said to be the first-ever laboratory study of mothers of gay men and was prompted by more than two decades of statistical […]
Ghana’s president says legalisation of homosexuality “bound to happen”
Nana Akufo-Addo, the President of Ghana, has come under fire after he said that it’s a matter of time until homosexuality is accepted in his country. Akufo-Addo made the controversial statement in a wide-ranging interview with Al Jazeera. He admitted that there was currently little social or political appetite to accept LGBT equality in Ghana. […]
Here’s the new Queer Eye For The Straight Guy cast
Queer Eye For The Straight Guy, a show that made a huge impact on the mainstream representation of gay men on television, is set to return with a brand new cast. The American reality series debuted in 2003 and featured a team of five gay men who gave participants a general lifestyle makeover, including wardrobe, […]
Bermuda moves to reverse same-sex marriage after just 6 months
Bermuda’s LGBTQ community is in shock after lawmakers voted to reverse marriage equality on the Caribbean island. Same-sex marriage was legalised in May after the Bermuda Supreme Court ruled that barring same-sex couples from marrying was discriminatory and in contravention of the country’s Human Rights Act. While LGBTQ locals were jubilant at the time, their […]
Report: Temple butt-baring gay couple to be released
It appears that the gay American couple who posed for selfies with their pants down at a temple in Thailand will not be jailed after all. According to San Diego Gay and Lesbian News (SDGLN), Travis and Joseph Dasilva will be heading back to the US when they are released shortly. The site reports that […]
Fear and panic as police shut down Uganda’s only LGBTIQ film festival
Police in Uganda have illegally raided and shut down the second annual edition of the Queer Kampala International Film Festival (QueerKIFF) on the weekend. The three-day event, which first took place last year, is the only LGBTIQ film festival in the country, where it is illegal to be gay. It aims to celebrate the diversity of […]
A promise to God? Top wedding photographer refuses to cover gay wedding
Two Cape Town men have been left humiliated after a leading wedding photographer cancelled their booking when he discovered they are a gay couple. In May, event planner Frikkie van Zyl contacted Nelis Engelbrecht to photograph his March 2018 wedding in Ladismith to partner of ten years, Davide. Engelbrecht is an award-winning photographer and belongs […]
Outrageous! Film and Publication Board promotes LGBT pedophile fake news
In an astonishing development, South Africa’s Film and Publication Board (FPB) has shared a fake news story on social media claiming that the LGBT community supports pedophilia. On Thursday, the organisation, which is tasked with classifying films, games and certain publications in the country, shared a link to a deceitful article that claimed that a […]