US shooter says he killed gay man because he came on to brother
The white supremacist who shot and killed a gay North Carolina college worker this week has stated that he hates gays. Kenneth Morgan Stancil III, 20, has admitted to shooting and killing 44-year-old Ron Lane, who was his former supervisor at the college’s printing shop. In a phone interview from prison with WRAL-TV on Wednesday, Stancil […]
Cape Town court: religion no excuse to discriminate
In a groundbreaking settlement the Equality Court in Cape Town has agreed that owners of a guesthouse cannot use their religious beliefs to turn away gay customers. Neil Coulson and his husband Jonathan Sedgwick were denied accommodation in November 2013 by the House of Bread in the town of Wolseley, near Ceres, because their sexual […]
Zambia: Two men acquitted of homosexuality charges
A Zambian court has acquitted two men who were arrested early last year on charges of having gay sex – but their ordeal may not yet be over. The men, a 36-year-old teacher and a 22-year-old casual worker in the town of Chisamba, had been accused of having “carnal knowledge of each other against the […]
Awkward! France not backing down on gay Vatican ambassador
France appears to be standing firm in its posting of an openly gay man as its ambassador to the Vatican, despite the pope’s disapproval. France appointed Laurent Stefanini, a highly respected senior diplomat and a practising catholic, as its representative to the church back in January. Although the Vatican usually approves such appointments in six week, Stefanini […]
LGBT groups condemn xenophobic violence
LGBT groups have condemned the ongoing attacks on foreign nationals and the looting of their shops in Gauteng and Kwazulu-Natal. Triangle Project (Cape Town) and the Gay and Lesbian Network (Pietermaritzburg) joined other civil society groups such as the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), Ndifuna Ukwazi and Sonke Gender Justice in expressing their outrage on Tuesday at […]
Hunk could become 1st Mens Health trans cover model
A transgender man is in the lead to win a competition to become a cover model for an issue of Men’s Health magazine. Aydian Ethan Dowling, a 27-year-old artist, activist, entrepreneur and fitness trainer from Oregon, currently has over 22,000 votes in the Ultimate Guy Search contest, more than double his nearest competitor. If he […]
Concern over Ceres gay hate murder trial
An LGBT rights group is concerned about the state’s handling of the prosecution of the suspect in the horrific torture and murder of a young gay Ceres man last year. Christo Oncker has been accused of allegedly beating a bound David Olyne, 23, with a rock, jumping on his face and then repeatedly setting him […]
Egypt bans foreign student for being gay
An Egyptian court has backed a government decision to bar a Libyan from studying in the country because of his sexuality. The Interior Ministry had banned the un-named gay man in 2008 from returning to Egypt to resume his studies at the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport. An official told AP that […]
Anglican Church slammed for appointing anti-gay leader
The global Anglican Communion has been slammed for selecting an anti-gay Nigerian bishop as its new secretary general. The church announced earlier this month that Josiah Atkins Idowu-Fearon, Bishop of Kaduna in Nigeria, has been appointed as the next Secretary General of the Anglican Communion. He was selected from a field of other applicants from […]
New antibody therapy shows promise in fighting HIV
Researchers have shown that a new experimental therapy can dramatically reduce the amount of HIV present in a patient’s blood. The results stem from HIV patient trials of a new generation of so-called broadly neutralizing antibodies, conducted by Rockefeller University researchers in New York. The work, reported this week in Nature, brings fresh optimism to […]