Mr Gay South Africa 2015 for Emperors Palace
The Mr Gay South Africa finale is set to return to Gauteng this year after last year’s Cape Town outing. Organisers have announced that the show will take place at the convention centre Centre Court of the Emperors Palace casino resort in Kempton Park on Saturday 28 March. The event, in which the 2015 titleholder will […]
Men allegedly raped PE lesbian to “show her she’s a woman”
Two men are on trial in the Port Elizabeth High Court for allegedly raping a lesbian woman in the Eastern Cape township of Kwazakhele. On Wednesday, a witness, Thabizolo Nodada, described how four men – Sonwabo Ngcete (20), Khuselo Manta (22), Siyamthanda Ndiza (21) and Siyabonga Mahlangu (21) – allegedly attacked the unnamed woman in […]
Benedict Cumberbatch & Stephen Fry join gay pardon campaign
British stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Stephen Fry have joined a growing campaign to see the thousands of men convicted of homosexuality in the UK pardoned. Homosexuality was only legalised in Britain in 1967, when the law for “gross indecency” (section 11 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885) was overturned. By that point, more than 49,000 […]
Activists not sold on new Mormon gay support
America’s leading LGBT rights group has acknowledged the historic new Mormon support for LGBT anti-discrimination laws, but it’s not convinced. Leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly referred to as the Mormon Church, held a televised news conference on Tuesday, urging the US to ensure that gays and lesbians are protected from […]
Tearful gay wedding suspects paraded by Nigeria morality police
Sharia morality police have arrested 12 people at a party that the authorities described as a “gay wedding” in Northern Nigeria on Monday. According to the Nigerian media, one of the arrested men was 20-year-old Faruq Maiduguri, who was “on the verge of tying the knot with his partner” in the state of Kano. At a press briefing by […]
Gay men threatened by mob after testing for STIs
Ugandan police reportedly detained nine gay men who tested for STI’s after they were threatened by an anti-gay mob. Erasing 76 Crimes reports that the incident took place on 15 January, when the Rainbow Health Foundation (RHF), which assists men who have sex with men, arranged an STI screening and treatment visit to a rural […]
State loses Cairo gay bathhouse case appeal
Egyptian prosecutors have lost their appeal against the dismissal of homosexuality charges against 26 men arrested in an alleged Cairo gay bathhouse last year. The men were first acquitted of charges of debauchery and committing “indecent public acts” on 12 January, a move that was seen as an unexpected victory for the country’s beleaguered LGBT […]
California bans judges from anti-gay Boy Scouts
Adding to pressure to change its anti-gay policies, California Supreme Court judges have been barred from participating in the Boy Scouts of America (BSA). The court’s judicial ethics rules previously already prohibited judges from holding membership in any organisation that “practices invidious discrimination on the basis of race, sex, gender, religion, national origin, ethnicity, or […]
Google apologises for gay slur translations
Google has apologised after it came to light that its translation tool offered up a number of offensive slurs when translating the word gay. According to Google Translate the word gay or homosexual in Spanish, French or Portuguese equates to English synonyms like “faggott,” “poof,” “fairy” and “dyke”. The activist site All Out launched a […]
Europe remembers gay victims of holocaust
The LGBT victims of the Nazi regime are being remembered alongside the millions of murdered Jews as many parts of Europe, including the UK, mark Holocaust Memorial Day today. While most people are aware that an estimated 6 million Jewish people were systemically decimated by the Nazis, few know that thousands of LGBT people – […]