CONTROVERSY AS UCT OPENS GENDER NEUTRAL TOILETS
The University of Cape Town (UCT) has opened controversial gender neutral toilets on campus to serve transgender students or students who don’t want to define their sex or gender. The facilities are located on the bottom level of the Leslie Social Sciences Building. They consist of three cubicles, each with a gender-neutral symbol, and a sign stating that […]
UGANDA’S ANTI-GAY LAW APPEAL HALTED, MAY BE AMENDED
Uganda’s President Museveni has reportedly ordered the country’s attorney general to suspend an appeal filed against the annulment of the Anti-Homosexuality Act. It’s also claimed that he wants to amend the law so that it is more “acceptable” to the West, following international outrage and limited aid cuts and sanctions. In a press statement issued […]
REPORT: 2 HANGED FOR GAY SEX IN IRAN
A human rights group reports that two men have been hanged in Iran, apparently for the crime of having gay sex. According to Iran Human Rights (IHR), the two men were among a group of four prisoners that were hanged in public in Shiraz, Southern Iran on August 6. It said that the official website […]
PARENTS TRY TO SET TEEN ALIGHT FOR BEING GAY
The parents of an 18-year-old in Azerbaijan beat and tried to set him alight after they discovered he is gay. The group LGBT Azerbaijan Alliance reported that the parents of the young man, named only as M.N, attempted to burn him after dousing him with petrol. “A lot of signs of violence on his body […]
COULD SEYCHELLES LEGALISE HOMOSEXUALITY SOON?
The Seychelles could start fulfilling its earlier promise to legalise homosexuality. The blog Denisnzioka.co.ke reports that the country’s Judicial College hosted a public discussion on “discrimination of gay people, marriage quality and morality” on Monday. In 2011, the Seychelles government told the United Nations Human Rights Council that it planned to decriminalise homosexuality and to […]
NEW KENYA ANTI-GAY BILL CALLS FOR STONING TO DEATH OF GAYS
A horrific new bill has been introduced in Kenya’s Parliament that seeks to top Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill by punishing homosexuality with life imprisonment and the death penalty. According to Daily Nation, the Republican Liberty Party has presented the draft bill to the National Assembly. Same-sex consensual sex among adults is already illegal in Kenya, with […]
NEW PARTNERSHIPS TO BOOST PINK LOERIE MR GAY WORLD BID
The Pink Loerie Mardi Gras & Arts Festival has announced a number of new partnerships that will ensure that next year’s event in Knysna will be bigger and better than ever, say the event’s organisers. It was confirmed today that Globeflight couriers has again secured the naming rights for the 2015 festival and that Mr […]
SA MAN’S GAY MARRIAGE PROPOSAL VIDEO GOES VIRAL
A Johannesburg man’s unique gay marriage proposal video, featuring an A-list Hollywood star, has gone viral. In the YouTube video, film and TV producer Brett Lotriet uses sign boards to ask boyfriend Khalid Shawwa, who’s a huge fan of Star Trek actor Patrick Stewart, to marry him. “We all know how you feel about Star Trek’s […]
STILL NO DATE FOR SA’S LGBT REGIONAL SUMMIT
The South Africa government says it’s still committed to hosting the long-delayed LGBT regional summit but it won’t set a date. “South Africa is planning to hold the African regional seminar focusing on finding practical solutions for violence and discrimination against persons based on sexual orientation and gender identity,” Department of International Relations and Co-operation spokesperson Nelson […]
CHURCH CANCELS MAN’S FUNERAL BECAUSE HE’S GAY
An American Baptist church in Florida is facing a backlash after it cancelled a man’s funeral at the last minute when it discovered he was gay. Pastor T.W. Jenkins of the New Hope Missionary Baptist Church phoned Julion Evans’ mother Julie Atwood while she was at her son’s wake to tell her the news the […]