POLICE USING WHATSAPP TO ENTRAP GAY MEN
A Lebanese LGBT rights group has warned the country’s gay community that police are using the WhatsApp messenger app to target gay men. The organisation, Helem, posted an urgent announcement on its Facebook page on Tuesday, revealing that it had “learned that the Hobeich police station has been arresting individuals in Beirut and going through their […]
CHRISTIAN GROUP’S FASTING AGAINST GAY MARRIAGE
An American Christian group’s 40 days of fasting against gay marriage is meant to kick off this week (although its members can still eat food). In April, The Family Foundation urged its supporters to “join us for 40 Days of Prayer, Fasting and Repentance for Marriage from August 27 until October 5, 2014.” The fast […]
MR GAY SA AIMS TO TAKE MR GAY WORLD TITLE
Mr South Africa, Werner de Waal, says he’s “insanely excited” about representing the country at the Mr Gay World contest in Rome this week. De Waal left for the Italian capital on Sunday, where he will compete against 32 delegates from around the world for the top prize. “I’ve never been out of the country, […]
FIRED LESBIAN MINISTER CONTINUES HER FIGHT FOR EQUALITY
The former Cape Town minister who was fired from the Methodist Church for marrying her female partner continued her more than four-year-long battle for equality in court on Tuesday. Advocate Anna-Marie de Vos told the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) in Bloemfontein that Ecclesia de Lange was constitutionally entitled to marry her partner in light […]
US ‘FAMILY’ GROUP EXPOSED FOR EXPORTING GAY HATE
A new report has highlighted the hateful activities of the World Congress of Families (WCF), described as a group of American extremists exporting anti-LGBT bigotry around the world, influencing anti-gay laws in Africa and Russia. On Monday, The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), America’s largest LGBT rights organisation, released a new report that claims to expose […]
GHANA: MOB TRIES TO LYNCH LGBTI STUDENT, ATTACKS FAMILY HOME
A 21-year-old student has reportedly been arrested in Ghana on accusations that he is gay and was “recruiting other youth into the practice.” According to Peacefmonline.com, police detained Yakubu Abdul Kadri in Bugya, a farming community in Northern Ghana. Police said that he was arrested after angry locals tried to lynch him for “engaging in […]
ECUADOR TO REGISTER GAY UNIONS, BUT NOT MARRIAGES
Ecuador’s President, Rafael Correa, has announced that the country will start to recognise same-sex unions from next month. Although civil unions for all couples – regardless of gender or sexual orientation – have technically been legal since the country’s Constitution was approved in 2008, the Ecuadoran Civil Registry has refused to register same-sex unions. This […]
AFTER 9 MONTH AWAITING TRIAL TWO LESBIANS RELEASED
Two women in Cameroon have been released after being jailed for nine months while awaiting trial on homosexuality charges. The blog Erasing 76 Crimes, reports that the women, identified only as Liliane and Nicole, were found guilty earlier this month. On Thursday last week they were sentenced to two years in prison. This was, however, […]
LOOPHOLE ALLOWS GAY MARRIAGES TO BE RECOGNISED IN NAMIBIA
A same-sex couple have reportedly managed to get their marriage recognised in Namibia thanks to a loophole in the nation’s law. Heide Rossouw of Heide Rossouw Legal Office in Walvis Bay discovered that although Namibia does not recognise gay marriages from other countries it does recognise foreign civil unions as equivalent to marriage. She recently […]
GIFT’S ALLEGED KILLER’S MOM: HE DID IT
The mother of the man arrested for the rape and murder of lesbian Disebo “Gift” Makau says her son admitted to her that he committed the crime. Pule Botlhokwane, 24, has been charged with the recent horror attack in which Makau was raped and strangled to death with a wire and had a running hosepipe […]