Golden globe winners dedicate awards to trans community
Sunday’s Golden Globe Awards saw a number of LGBT related wins in the television categories. The series Transparent, about a transgender woman who comes out to her family, scored two major awards. It won the Best Comedy Series and the Best Actor in a Television Series, Comedy (Jeffrey Tambor) honours. Accepting the best series award, […]
Zuma condemns LGBTI hate attacks in ANC anniversary speech
Commemorating the 103rd anniversary of the ANC, President Jacob Zuma has condemned hate crimes against gay, lesbian and transgender South Africans. Zuma made the comments during his speech at Saturday’s ANC mass celebration in Cape Town, in which he delivered a statement from the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the ANC. Addressing the issue of […]
Watch what happens when two men hold hands in public
You might think that people in a “liberal” country like England wouldn’t blink an eye if they saw two men holding hands in public. Well, think again. After receiving a call from a 23-year-old gay listener who complained of abuse after holding hands with his boyfriend in Luton, presenters Justin Dealey and Iain Lee from […]
Global gay rights leaders ask Obama for consistency
More than 20 LGBT rights leaders from countries grappling with the persecution of their communities have written to President Obama. In the letter, they praised Obama for his efforts to promote LGBT rights around the world, but also asked that his government’s policies be applied consistently to all nations. The activists acknowledged the US response […]
Watch: Gay murder imam justifies Charlie Hebdo massacre
A London imam who supports the execution of gay people has justified the massacre at the offices of the French satire publication Charlie Hebdo. In an article published by USA Today, Anjem Choudary – described as a radical Muslim cleric and lecturer in Sharia law – wrote that “Muslims do not believe in the concept […]
Gay SA singer seeks support for New York award trip
Majola, the openly gay South African singer, is hoping to raise funds to attend an LGBT music awards ceremony in New York. The performer has broken new ground by singing self-penned songs about same-sex love, longing and discrimination in his home language of Xhosa. He was recently announced as a finalist in the category of […]
Madness as Russia bans transgender people from driving
In a mind-boggling move, Russia has now banned transgender people from driving. It’s been revealed that Russia’s Ministry of Health last month released an updated list of categories of people who cannot be issued a driver’s license. Not only are people who have physical impairments, such as blindness or amputated limbs, banned from driving, but […]
Pride director “understands” gay marketing censorship
The director of an acclaimed British gay film says he “understands” why the US chose to remove all gay references from the film’s marketing material. Pride tells the true story of a group of gay and lesbian activists in the eighties who embarked on a fundraising campaign to support striking miners in Wales. While the […]
Miami archbishop will fire employees who support gay marriage
The schizophrenic nature of the Catholic Church’s stance on homosexuality has come to the fore in Florida, where same-sex marriage was legalised this week. In a letter to Church employees, the Archbishop of Miami, Thomas Wenski, addressed “recent decisions by courts in Florida that have imposed the redefinition of marriage.” In bid to provide them […]
Anger over TLC’s ‘ex-gay’ Mormon reality show
Almost 90,000 people have signed a petition calling for the TLC network to cancel the show My Husband’s Not Gay. The one hour reality special, set to screen in the US on Sunday, follows four Mormon men, married to women, who, according to the network, “don’t identify themselves as homosexual despite having an attraction to […]