LGBTI music student stabbed to death in Potch
A talented young LGBTI life has been cut short in a brutal murder in Potchefstroom. The decomposing body of 35-year-old music student Bobby Motlatla was discovered in his flat last week, Tuesday. He had been stabbed on his bed multiple times. Motlatla was a promising third year music student at North West University (NWU), specialising […]
Johannesburg People’s Pride 2015 gallery
The Joburg People’s Pride movement held its third annual march through Hillbrow and Braamfontein on Saturday 21 November; remembering the activists who started South Africa’s LGBTI rights movement. Participants began the afternoon by making placards at Constitution Hill before embarking on the march with the intention of “reclaiming” the streets and making a radical political […]
It’s time to refocus the HIV stigma
HIV-related stigma within the gay community has been around since the emergence of the pandemic. Early media reports referred to HIV as being a gay disease and fear of the virus was rampant, especially when a lack of treatment options caused many gay men to present with the devastating physical features of AIDS. Indeed, HIV […]
Watch: Hunky Brazilian stars kiss to support gay equality
Two of Brazil’s hottest actors have shown where they stand when it comes to homophobia – by passionately locking lips. Bruno Gagliasso and João Vicente de Castro, who are both straight, shared the smooch on stage at Brazil’s GQ Men of the Year awards on Thursday in Rio de Janeiro. Along with a picture of […]
Sanity prevails: SA reverses course on human rights at UN
South Africa has changed its mind after shamefully voting against last week’s UN resolution in support of human rights activists. The country came under fire from human rights groups after it joined 13 other mostly anti-gay and repressive countries in rejecting sending the resolution to the UN General Assembly. Now, it appears that South Africa […]
Anti-gay TV journalist sentenced to jail over bath house raid
An Egyptian television journalist who took it upon herself to make the news by targeting the gay community has received a jail sentence of six months. Mona Iraqi was found guilty of spreading false claims about a group of men after they were arrested by police in December last year. She broadcast images of the […]
Politicians squabble as LGBT Indians demand freedom
As hundreds held a Pride march and celebration in Delhi, a government minister and the leader of his party have squabbled about India’s ban on gay sex. Members of the LGBT community and their friends and family took to the capital city’s streets on Sunday to call for equality and freedom on the basis of […]
Exit marks its 300th issue
South Africa’s longest running monthly LGBT publication has just released its ground breaking 300th issue. Exit newspaper has been informing the country’s LGBT community since it was founded in 1982 by GASA (the Gay Association of South Africa), with Editor Dawid Moolman at the helm. After about three years it became privately owned and was […]
Uganda passes law to ban gay rights groups
Ahead of the Pope’s visit to Uganda, the country’s lawmakers have passed another repressive law; this time allowing the state to control and ban human rights groups. On Thursday, the Ugandan parliament approved the controversial Non-Governmental Organisations (NGO) bill. The law grants the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the National Board for Non-governmental Organisations broad […]
Ecclesia de Lange: “Opportunity to protect rights of LGBTI people lost”
Ecclesia de Lange, the lesbian minister whose discrimination case against the Methodist Church of South Africa (MCSA) was rejected by the Constitutional Court, has spoken out about her disappointment. De Lange was fired by the church in January 2010 after she announced to her Western Cape congregation that she would be marrying her same-sex partner […]