IS NEPAL ABOUT TO REINSTATE GAY BAN?
There are reports that new legislation is set to be introduced that will reinstate the ban on gay sex in Nepal, reversing the country’s recent LGBT rights advances. According to Gay Star News, Sunil Pant, the country’s first openly gay politician and a former MP, has revealed that those found guilty of homosexuality under the proposed laws would […]
HEAD OF AMERICA’S PFLAG TO HELP LAUNCH SA GAY PARENTS GROUP
Inspired by PFLAG in the US, a new organisation has been launched to help parents, families and friends of LGBTI youth in South Africa. PFSAQ (Parents, Families and Friends of the South African Queer) was conceived by long-time LGBTI activist Virginia Magwaza in November last year. In a show of support for the new Johannesburg-based organisation, the […]
FORMER EX-GAY LEADERS CALL FOR BAN ON “GAY CURES”
Nine American former leaders of “ex-gay” ministries have denounced-the dangerous practice of attempting to “cure” gay people through so called “conversion therapy”. In a joint letter issued on Thursday, the one-time promoters of the discredited practice expressed their support for the National Center for Lesbian Rights’ #BornPerfect campaign to end conversion therapy in five years. […]
REPORT: UGANDA GOV TO APPEAL ANTI-GAY LAW RULING
The author of the Anti-Homosexuality Act says that the Ugandan government will fight to overturn today’s Constitutional Court repeal of the horrific law (details here). According to the Daily Monitor newspaper, MP David Bahati, who masterminded the legislation, told journalists that the Attorney General will petition the Supreme Court to review Friday’s landmark ruling, seen as […]
JUBILATION! UGANDA’S ANTI-HOMOSEXUALITY ACT IS DEAD
In a landmark judgement, Uganda’s Constitutional Court ruled today that the reviled Anti-Homosexuality Act is null and void. On Friday, the court’s five justices agreed with petitioners that the anti-gay law, said to be one of the harshest in the world, had been passed illegally by Parliament because there were not enough lawmakers present at […]
MR GAY WORLD 2014 CONTESTANTS REVEALED
Delegates from 32 countries will be competing in the sixth annual Mr Gay World competition in the eternal city of Rome. From 24 to 31 August, they’ll take part in a variety of challenges, until one of them is crowned Mr Gay World 2014. The organisers say that Mr Gay World is more than a beauty […]
CHINA: GAY CONVERSION THERAPY ON TRIAL
A Chinese man is suing a gay conversion therapy clinic and a Chinese search engine for advertising the facility’s services. According to AFP, the gay man – known only as Xiao Zhen – claims that the Xinyu Piaoxiang clinic in the city of Chongqing left him traumatised with its use of electro-shock therapy while trying to […]
UGANDA ANTI-HOMOSEXUALITY ACT COULD BE STRUCK DOWN TOMORROW
Uganda’s Constitutional Court has begun hearing a petition to nullify the country’s oppressive Anti-Homosexuality Act. The petitioners opposing the law include high profile LGBT and human rights campaigners and groups, an MP, and a university professor. If their first argument about the legality of how the law was passed is accepted by the court, the […]
GAY CURE YOUTH CAMP MURDER ACCUSED CLAIMS INNOCENCE
The man behind a brutal South African masculinising and gay cure youth camp has insisted that he did not cause the horrific death of a 15-year-old boy. Echo Wild Game Rangers camp owner Alex de Koker and employee Michael Erasmus are facing charges of murder, child abuse, neglect and assault with intent to cause serious […]
STIGMA STOPS ZIM GAYS FROM SEEKING HEALTH CARE
Following warnings from the recent World Aids Conference that anti-gays laws are hampering the global fight against HIV, a Zimbabwe gay rights activist has spoken out about how homophobia affects his community. According to New Zimbabwe, the unnamed senior official of Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ) said that gay people face ongoing stigma and […]