SOWETO PRIDE TO MARK 10TH ANNIVERSARY AMIDST TRAGEDY
The annual Soweto LGBTI Pride March will mark its first decade on Saturday 27 September in the wake of another hate crime tragedy. Taking place in one of the country’s largest townships – spaces in which LGBTI people continue to face discrimination and worse – the march remains a significant political statement. Dikeledi Sibanda from […]
QUESTIONS ASKED ABOUT UGANDA GAY STONING REPORT
Questions have been asked about the veracity of a report that seven LGBT people were stoned to death in the past month in rural Uganda. The group Friends New Underground Railroad (FNUR), a US-based Quaker initiative “helping LGBT people in Uganda,” claimed in a media statement on Monday to have received reports from Ugandan activists about […]
RUSSIAN GAY HATE LEADER SENT TO PRISON
The man behind the extremist Russian group responsible for humiliating and torturing gay people, including a Swazi youth, has received a prison sentence. According to Interfax, Maxim Martsinkevich was found guilty of “incitement of hatred or hostility and humiliation of human dignity”, and sentenced to five years in a penal colony. Marcinkiewicz previously spent three […]
SICK! SA LESBIAN HATE CRIME HOSEPIPE KILLING
Another South African woman has been raped and horribly murdered in an apparent lesbian hate crime attack, this time in Ventersdorp, in the North West province. According to media reports, the half naked body of Gift (Disebo) Makau was discovered in the Tshing location with a running hose pipe shoved down her throat and into […]
REPORT: SEVEN LGBT UGANDANS STONED TO DEATH
UPDATE: Questions have been asked regarding the veracity of this report. Click for an update here. There are unconfirmed reports that seven LGBT Ugandans have been stoned to death in rural parts of the country over the last few weeks. The claims were included in a press statement from Friends New Underground Railroad (FNUR), a […]
ZAVION’S GAY GAMES GOLD MEDAL BONANZA
Survivor’s Zavion Kotze has made South Africa proud, bringing home an impressive stash of medals from the Cleveland Gay Games. The week-long event came to a close on Saturday night with a ceremony featuring a performance by Boy George. Thousands of athletes from 50 countries took part in the Games – touted as a success for […]
2014 JOHANNESBURG PRIDE STAYS IN SANDTON
Organisers of the 2014 Johannesburg Pride Parade and Festival have announced that the event will once again take place in Sandton, this time on 25 October. Last year, the often controversial event was moved from the city’s Newtown district to the Sandton Sports Club, drawing thousands of revellers, but fewer than in previous years. For […]
GAY MAN MURDERED EXECUTION-STYLE BY EX-BOYFRIEND
A man is alleged to have brutally shot and run over his ex-boyfriend, despite his desperate pleas to live. The Star Tribune reports that a witness, Josh Polos, saw Kelly Phillips and Lyle Hoffman’s car pulling into a parking lot next to Minnesota petrol station on Monday morning. Polos, who was filling his car with […]
HAVING SEX WITH NEW MAN EVERY DAY FOR A YEAR – FOR ART?
A performance artist in Berlin is planning to sleep with a different man every day for a year as an art project. The 26-year-old Russian-born Mischa Badasyan’s project is called Save the Date. Through it, he aims to explore loneliness and the difficulty of connecting with others in today’s impersonal world and hook-up gay culture. […]
ANGER AS 27 MEN ARRESTED IN LEBANON GAY RAID
Human rights and sexual health groups have demanded the immediate release of 27 men arrested in a bath house in Lebanon on suspicion of having gay sex. The judicial police’s Moral Protection Bureau raided the Turkish-style bath house in the Beirut neighbourhood of Hamra-Concord on Saturday night. The raid followed the arrest of an individual […]