Calling all musos! Competition for Pretoria Pride Song
GaySA Radio and Pretoria LGBTQ+ Pride have launched a search for a song for the upcoming Pretoria Pride 2017. All singers and musicians are called on to write and record a song around this year’s theme for Pride, “Carnival”. The song should reflect a positive message around LGBTQ+ issues, Pretoria Pride and the theme. The […]
Activists arrested trying to present Chechnya anti-gay purge petition in Moscow
In another outrageous attack on civil liberties, the Russian authorities have stopped activists from delivering a massive petition against Chechnya’s anti-LGBT purge. The activists, four Russians and one Italian, were arrested as they attempted to hand over the petition at the prosecutor general’s office in Moscow on Thursday morning. They reportedly also carried large empty boxes […]
Philippines wins Mr Gay World 2017, SA in 5th place
John Raspado, a 35-year-old online marketing entrepreneur from the Philippines, was crowned Mr Gay World in Spain on Wednesday night. Raspado was a clear favourite. He not only scooped the overall title but also took home the Best Swimwear, Mr Online Vote, Mr Interview, Best in Formal Wear, and Mr Social Media awards in the […]
Trial of 54 charged with holding ‘gay wedding’ starts in Nigeria
A court in Nigeria is trying a group of up to 54 people on charges of attending a party celebrating a same-sex marriage. The accused, most of whom are believed to be students, were arrested on 15 April in a raid on a motel in the city of Zaria, in the northern state of Kaduna. […]
Qantas CEO got pie in the face because he supports marriage equality
The CEO of Australia’s national airline was targeted with a pie in the face because he’s spoken out in support of same-sex marriage. On Tuesday, Alan Joyce, the head of Qantas, was in the midst of a business breakfast speech in Perth when a man walked onto the stage and shoved a pie into the […]
New York woman becomes 10th US transgender murder victim this year
The onslaught against transgender women, particularly those of colour, continues in the US with the killing of Brenda Bostick in New York City. Bostick, a 59-year-old black transgender woman, died last week Thursday from injuries sustained in an attack on April 25th in the Chelsea neighbourhood of Manhattan. According to media reports, the homeless woman […]
Theresa May speaks out against Chechnya’s anti-gay purge
The British Prime Minister has called the crackdown against the LGBT community in Chechnya “abhorrent” and has promised to take action. Theresa May addressed the subject in a letter, dated 10 May, in response to MPs who had requested the government’s intervention in the matter. “I am writing to thank you and your co-signatories for […]
Afrikaans celebrity lay preacher slammed for dangerous views on homosexuality
Gretha Wiid’s claim that homosexuality is a developmental aberration caused by an unloving father, which can be cured if caught in time, has gone viral. Wiid is a popular public speaker, lay preacher and relationship ‘expert’ in the Afrikaans community and has been described as a female version of controversial preacher Angus Buchan. She and […]
Bermuda: Victory for love as gay couple win right to marry
A gay couple in Bermuda have won the right to marry, effectively legalising same-sex marriage on the Caribbean island. On Friday, the Bermuda Supreme Court ruled that barring same-sex couples from marrying was discriminatory and in contravention of the country’s Human Rights Act. Bermudian Winston Godwin and his Canadian fiancé, Greg DeRoche, took the issue […]
University of Venda radio station in ‘gays can be converted’ hate speech case
The head of a rights-based NPO and the University of Venda community radio station have been taken to the Equality Court over claims of anti-LGBTI hate speech. The incident took place on the 19th of September last year, when the station’s current affairs programme Nkho Ya Lushaka hosted Dr Baldwin Mufunwaini, head of the organisation […]