Soweto Fashion Week web designer stands by anti-gay comments
The head of the Johannesburg company that designed the Soweto Fashion Week website has taken to social media to slam gay people as immoral, unnatural and more likely to be child molesters. Edwin Mbugua, Head of web development at E&A Web Design Lab, was driven to his homophobic diatribe on Twitter after he saw a […]
Parliamentary committee rejects Russian anti gay law
A Russian parliamentary committee has declined to support a bill that proposes banning being gay in public. According to The Moscow Times, the draft law was rejected on Monday by the State Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building for technical reasons. The explanation given Dmitry Vyatkin, the deputy chairman of the committee, was […]
Spy agency is UK’s best LGBT employer
The secret is out! Intelligence agency MI5 has been named the most LGBT-friendly employer in an assessment of LGBT equality in the UK workplace. According to LGBT group Stonewall, which compiles the annual list, the agency took the top spot this year, up from seventh in 2015. Ironically, prior to 1990, MI5 would not even employ gay and […]
Former Botswana president calls for gay rights in Africa
Festus Mogae, the former president of Botswana, says that African leaders who refuse to acknowledge LGBT rights are “selfish” and have the “wrong mentality.” Mogae, who was head of the country from 1998 to 2008, spoke about the issue in an interview with Africa Renewal. He said that Africans must move with the times and […]
Isis extremists claim another gay victim
Isis militants have murdered another person after he was found “guilty” of homosexuality by a sharia court. The man was bound and blindfolded and then thrown off a roof top in Iraq’s al-Furat province. Images have been released online, showing the hapless victim being escorted up the building’s stairwell. He’s then seen standing on the edge of […]
Tunisia slammed for suspending gay group
Human Rights Watch has condemned the Tunisian authorities’ decision to suspend the activities of LGBT rights group, Shams. Shams registered with the government’s secretary general in May 2015, as an organisation working to support sexual and gender minorities. On January 4, the group was informed by a Tunis court that it had been suspended for […]
Botswana gay group tells court it has a right to exist
Botswana’s lesbian and gay group has appeared in the Gaborone High Court of Appeal to defend its constitutional right to exist as a legal entity. On Friday, lawyers for Lesbians, Gays and Bisexuals of Botswana (LEGABIBO) asked a panel of five judges to not overturn a November 2014 ruling ordering the government to resister the organisation. […]
“We will find Twitter LGBT hate teen,” say activists
Activists are determined to identify the person behind the KZN Twitter account that’s glorified raping lesbians and killing gay people. Earlier this week, @FezileKid outraged social media users when he tweeted: “When I meet gay this year imma shoot them, fuck I hate Iy’tabane,” and, “If I ever bump into Lesbians fucking I’d definately rape […]
Conservative Anglicans win same-sex marriage battle
The worldwide Anglican Communion has acceded to the demands and threats of anti-gay church leaders. On Thursday, the church released a statement announcing that it had decided to suspend the USA’s Episcopal Church for “unilaterally” accepting same-sex unions. The decision was taken at a meeting of global Anglican Church leaders, known as primates, in the […]
Straight actors get Oscar nominations for LGBT roles (again)
It’s a long-standing tradition: this year’s Oscar nominees list sees two straight, cisgender actors nominated for playing LGBT roles. Cate Blanchett, who in May last year denied having had sex with other women, was recognised with an Actress in a Leading Role nomination for her performance in lesbian romance, Carol. Eddie Redmayne, who’s described himself […]