Really? Mugabe wins Chinese ‘Nobel Peace Prize’
In a slap in the face to Zimbabwe’s LGBT community, China has awarded President Robert Mugabe its equivalent of the Nobel Peace Prize. The 91-year-old proudly homophobic leader was announced as the recipient of the 2015 Confucius Peace Prize this week. The award was created in response to the Norwegian Nobel Committee selecting Chinese dissident […]
Olympic skier and extreme sports star comes out as gay
American freestyle skier and extreme sports hero Gus Kenworthy has told the world that he’s gay, and that he’s tired of lying about who he is. Kenworthy, 24, won the silver medal in the Men’s Freestyle Skiing event at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. On Thursday, the British-born athlete came out in an […]
Powerful Kenyan LGBT film screens in Jozi and CT
An anthology film about Kenya’s LGBT community that landed its producer in jail will be screened in Cape Town and Johannesburg in the coming days. Stories of Our Lives, which recounts five LGBT people’s real-life experiences in Kenya, has won numerous awards, including the Teddy Special Jury Award and second Place Panorama Audience Award at […]
Johannesburg People’s Pride backs student protests
The Johannesburg People’s Pride Movement has expressed its support for South African students around the country who have been protesting against a planned increase in tuition fees. The #FeesMustFall student campaign is the most significant student uprising in the country since the end of apartheid and has seen thousands protesting at universities, at the ANC […]
World Pride set for New York’s 50th Stonewall anniversary
New York City has been selected to host WorldPride 2019 alongside celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall uprising. This will be the first time that WorldPride, a global LGBT Pride event, will take place in the United States, said NYC Pride, producers of the city’s LGBT Pride events. Previous host cities have […]
Zim MP sues for $200,000 for being called gay
A Zimbabwean MP is suing rivals in his party for a whopping $200,000 for saying that he’s gay in a video posted on social media. Lawyers representing Justice Mayor Wadyajena, a ZANU PF MP for the Gokwe Nembudziya constituency, have sent a letter of demand to the men insisting on an apology and the cash […]
Ugandan civil servant charged with sodomy
The Ugandan media is reporting that a 42-year-old former government official is facing life in prison after being charged with gay sex. The man, who Mambaonline has chosen not to name, appeared before the Soroti Grade II Magistrate Court in the east of the country last week. He has been charged with committing a crime […]
South Africa’s defiant gay hate pastor: “Lock me up!”
Despite having signed a court order not to make anti-gay comments, Cape Town’s Pastor Oscar Bougardt shows no sign of letting up on his appalling homophobia. Over the last few months the cleric has contributed a host of shockingly hateful comments on Mambaonline articles. These include writing: “I won’t be surprised if Pope Francis is […]
Is this the world’s hottest prime minister?
International politics just became that much more interesting… Meet Canada’s gorgeous new Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, who doesn’t just sport model good looks but is also a vocal supporter of LGBT equality. On Monday, Trudeau became the prime minister-designate of Canada after his Liberal Party beat out the Conservatives in an unexpected victory in the polls to take the […]
Global doctors group says trans rights trump religion, cultural beliefs
The World Medical Association (WMA) has adopted new guidelines for doctors to improve their approach towards transgender people and their unique health needs. Delegates from almost 60 national medical associations agreed at the organisation’s General Assembly in Moscow that every effort should be made to make individualised, multi-professional, interdisciplinary and affordable transgender healthcare available to all […]