Africa crowns its first black leather titleholder
For the first time in Africa, a gay leather title has been awarded to a black woman.
On Saturday, Selogadi Mampane was named Ms. SA Leather 2015, with Herman Groenewald taking the Mr. SA Leather title, at a ceremony in Sea Point, Cape Town.
Cape Town gay club owner’s killer gets life
The man who killed well-known Cape Town gay nightclub owner Bruno Bronn has finally learned his fate. On Monday, Judge John Hlophe gave Frederick Willem John Coetzer a life sentence for the murder in the Western Cape High Court. He was earlier found guilty of murder and robbery with aggravating circumstances on Friday. Coetzer was also […]
Send coal to pastor who wants to execute gays for Christmas
A unique campaign has been launched against an American pastor who preached that the world could be “Aids free by Christmas” if all gay people are executed. In an appalling sermon ahead of World Aids Day, Pastor Steven Anderson of Tempe’s Faithful Word Baptist Church told his congregation that Aids was “the judgement of God”. […]
SA lesbian artist up for top international prize
South Africa’s Zanele Muholi is once again being honoured for her ongoing series of intimate and striking portraits of lesbian women. Muholi has been shortlisted for the European Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, which awards contemporary photographers who have made a significant contribution to the medium of photography in the past year with a £30,000 prize. […]
Anger as UK bans some forms of porn
A number of sex acts have been banned from being included in pornography produced in the UK. The Independent reports that under the Audiovisual Media Services Regulations 2014, both online and offline porn will be regulated by the British Board of Film Censors (BBFC). As from the 1st of December, the regulations ban the following […]
Mzanzi Pride goes ahead despite loss of co-founder
Despite its co-founder reportedly “disappearing”, the inaugural Mzanzi Pride event has gone ahead this week. The last few days have seen a workshop on transgendered communities, a movie screening and comedy and poetry being presented at Constitution Hill in Joburg. The highlight, according to organisers, is set to be the Mzansi Pride march, festival and […]
EU’s top court bans humilating gay asylum tests
European Union states have been ordered to stop degrading tests to verify the sexual orientation of lesbian and gay asylum seekers. On Tuesday, the European Court of Justice ruled on a case involving three men, including a Ugandan, who were refused refugee status by the Dutch authorities because the men had not been able to “prove” […]
Look! Africa’s biggest gay rainbow flag flies in PE
Port Elizabeth has unveiled the largest-ever flown gay rainbow flag in Africa to mark this past weekend’s fourth Nelson Mandela Bay Pride celebrations. On Friday, Pride organisers, along with members of the city’s metro council and tourism authority, attended an official ceremony to raise the flag at Donkin Reserve, situated on a hill that overlooks […]
Uganda: Donated computers secretly “recruiting” students into homosexuality
The speaker of Uganda’s Parliament has warned her country’s citizens that gay people are recruiting the youth through donated school computers and adoption. The homophobic Rebecca Kadaga, who allowed the illegal passing of the now-annulled Anti-Homosexuality act in Parliament last year, made the astonishing crackpot claims at the golden jubilee celebrations of a Church in […]
TAC boycotts government World Aids Days event
The embattled Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has boycotted the government’s national World Aids Day commemoration in Welkom today, accusing it of wasteful spending. “As the TAC, we are totally opposed to our government spending millions of rand on high-profile events every World Aids Day, often in provinces where the challenges are immense,” TAC General Secretary Anele Yawa […]