UK Girl Guides and Brownies now open to transgender girls
Girlguiding, the group behind the Girl Guides, Brownies and Rainbows in the UK, has announced that transgender girls are now welcome to join the organisation. The move is a major change for Girlguiding which was launched in 1910 and previously only allowed members deemed to be girls at birth. The group has published a new […]
Lesedi FM’s Chomane Chomane apologises for homophobic remarks
Popular Lesedi FM presenter Chomane Chomane has apologised on air for his recent comments that offended members of the LGBTI community. Zenny Kgolokwane, from the LGBTI group Free State Rainbow Seeds, lodged a complaint with the radio station after she heard Chomane ask a gay man who would “play the woman role” if he was […]
Ugandan activist’s heartbreak as she’s blocked from adopting because she’s lesbian
An internationally acclaimed Ugandan LGBT activist has opened up about the devastation of being denied the opportunity to adopt a child because of her sexuality. On Monday, Jacqueline Kasha Nabagesera wrote on Facebook about the heartbreaking experience after she was interviewed by a government adoption panel, following years of planning and weeks of trying to set up an […]
Gay drama Moonlight gets 8 Oscar nominations
Moonlight, the gay coming of age drama, has received eight Oscar nominations, including best picture. The nominees were announced in Los Angeles on Tuesday, with the musical La La Land scoring a whopping 14 nominations. This sees it tied with All About Eve and Titanic for the most ever received by a film. Moonlight was nominated […]
NMB municipality apologises, asks LGBTI touch rugby club to return
The LGBTI touch rugby club in Nelson Mandela Bay that was barred from playing at a municipal park has been asked to return by the mayor’s office. Last week, Mambaonline reported that the NMB LGBTI Touch Rugby club’s practice session at the Donkin Reserve in Port Elizabeth ended in disappointment when an official ordered the […]
Trump continues to erase LGBTQ references from government websites
It appears that America’s LGBTQ community is headed for dark times as the Trump administration signals that it may be preparing to cut back on advances made by former President Obama. On Monday, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) said it had discovered the deletion of a number of LGBTQ references from the State Department website. This includes former […]
Huh? Grace Bible Church says condemning gay “lifestyle” not discrimination
Responding to anger over Sunday’s anti-gay sermon, the Grace Bible Church insists that its condemnation of same-sex relationships is not discriminatory. The Soweto church became embroiled in a social media frenzy on Sunday after Idols SA judge Somizi Mhlongo walked out of a sermon by Ghanaian evangelist Dag Heward-Mills who called homosexuality “unnatural”. The church’s Pastor […]
East Rand restaurant continues to turn away gay couples from date night
The Brakpan restaurant that wouldn’t allow gay couples to attend its “date nights” last year is back in the news after turning away two undercover journalists. EWN reporters Victor Magwedze and Clement Manyathela posed as a same-sex couple to see what would happen when they tried to walk in to the Lake Restaurant event. Arriving […]
Good for you Somizi! Homophobia church walkout leads to social media furore
The Grace Bible Church in Soweto became a trending topic on Twitter after an outraged Somizi Mhlongo walked out of a homophobic sermon on Sunday. The Idols judge posted a video on his social media platforms in which he expressed his anger at experiencing the religious bigotry on display at the popular church. “I’ve just […]
Nakhane Touré’s gay themed film premières at Sundance. Watch the trailer!
Nakhane Touré, the acclaimed openly gay singer-songwriter and author, can now add the role of actor to his impressive resume. He stars in the highly anticipated and likely controversial South African film The Wound, which has its global première at America’s Sundance Film Festival this weekend. The Wound tells the story of Xolani (played by […]