Watch: UN’s powerful new video highlights LGBTI faces
The United Nations has unveiled a moving new video highlighting the diverse faces, backgrounds and professions of LGBTI people. The video made its public début in New York City’s bustling Times Square on Thursday, where it was shown on huge outdoor screens. It was also posted online through YouTube. Dubbed Faces, can you see past the label? […]
Mmusi Maimane forced to defend views on gay rights
The DA’s new leader, Mmusi Maimane, has been forced to defend his position on LGBT rights. Maimane’s views on LGBT equality and same-sex marriage have been questioned after it was recently revealed that he is a pastor at an anti-gay church. His Liberty Church views gays and lesbians as sick sinners and marriage as only […]
Gambian president says he’ll slit gays’ throats
Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has once again threatened gay people with death. Vice News obtained a translation of a speech Jammeh delivered in the Wolof language in the town of Farafeni last week. He not only advocated violence against LGBT people but also restated the widely held view in many parts of Africa that homosexuality […]
Dainti Delischia: A South African drag legend passes on
Legendary South African drag performer, Charles Whiley, better known as Dainti Delischia, has died suddenly at the age of 78 in Cape Town. The much-loved Dainti always stood out with her caricature drag style: huge eyelashes, blue eyeshadow, painted on rosebud lips and, of course, her impressive wig (said to have been made of three wigs sown together.) […]
Vienna installs gay traffic lights for pink Eurovision tourists
Vienna is welcoming LGBT visitors with its new gay and lesbian traffic lights ahead of the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest. Traffic lights around the Austrian capital have had the traditional illuminated single figure replaced with male or female same-sex couples holding hands or embracing for the red light. When the robot changes to the green […]
Isis fighters lure gay men to their death
There are reports that undercover Isis members are setting up ‘dates’ with gay men in order to capture and execute them According to Daily Star, religious police have set up a squad of Isis militants who pose as gay men and lure other men to fake dates. The tricked men are arrested and then face […]
Fear as Kenyan tabloid outs “top gays”
In an appalling display of unethical and dangerous journalism, a Kenyan tabloid has published a list of the country’s so-called “top” homosexuals. The May 10 edition of Weekly Citizen, which describes itself as “Kenya’s most authoritative political newspaper”, featured a front page article titled Top gays, lesbians list in Kenya out. The sensationalistic piece includes […]
State agency fights gay dad ‘maternity’ leave ruling
A state owned agency seems intent on wasting money after requesting leave to appeal a recent judgement granting a Pietermaritzburg gay dad ‘maternity leave’. According to the Sunday Times, the State Information Technology Agency (SITA) has decided to challenge the groundbreaking March ruling that saw the Durban Labour Court agreeing that the agency had discriminated against […]
USA worst English speaking country for gay sportsmen
A study on homophobia in sport has found that the USA is the worst English speaking country in the world when it comes to acceptance of gay sportsmen. The Out on the Fields survey focused on the USA, UK, Ireland, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. South African was not included in the survey. The results […]
Did you know you almost got sued for being gay?
Whew, that was close! An American woman’s attempt to sue every gay and lesbian person in the world has thankfully been thwarted. Earlier this week, it was reported that Sylvia Driskell from Nebraska lodged the lawsuit in Omaha, claiming to be an ambassador of God and Jesus Christ. In the seven-page handwritten petition, headed “Sylvia […]