ZAMBIA: GAY RIGHTS ‘NOT CHRISTIAN’
Zambia’s Foreign Affairs Deputy Minister has proclaimed that his country will not recognise gay rights as to do so would be contrary to its constitutional Christian values. The Times of Zambia reports that Minister Gabriel Namulambe told visiting American Deputy Assistant Secretary for Southern African Affairs Shannon Smith that “gaysm” is in conflict with Zambian […]
ALL US GAY MARRIAGE BANS NOW CHALLENGED
The march to marriage equality appears unstoppable in the US, with all remaining state gay marriage bans now being challenged in court. On Friday, seven same-sex couples in North Dakota filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging that state’s constitutional amendment banning marriage equality. North Dakota was the last remaining state with a gay marriage ban with […]
GAY SOUTH AFRICAN BOOK WINS INTERNATIONAL AWARD
A South African collection of gay and lesbian African fiction has won a coveted literary award in New York City. On Monday, Queer Africa: New and Collected Fiction was honoured with the LGBT Anthology Fiction prize at the annual Lambda Literary Awards, making it the first African-produced book to win a ‘Lammy’. Now in their […]
GAY ART EXHIBIT ATTACKED & BANNED IN SENEGAL
A groundbreaking exhibition of LGBTI African art has been banned by the authorities in Senegal after an attack on the gallery. The exhibition, Precarious Imaging: Visibility and Media Surrounding African Queerness, opened on 11 May as part of the informal programme for Dak’Art 2014, the 11th Biennale of Contemporary African Art. The Art Newspaper reported […]
WATCH PRINCIPAL COMING OUT AS GAY TO SCHOOL
The principal of the largest public high school in Washington DC has come out as a gay man to his students and staff. Speaking at a lunchtime Pride Day event at Wilson High School on Wednesday, Principal Pete Cahall, revealed that he had “hid in the shadows but I am liberated today,” reports The Washington […]
BOTSWANA GAY BLOOD DONATION BAN CHALLENGED
Following the repeal of a similar ban in South Africa, an NGO is planning to take the Botswana government to court over its refusal to allow gays to donate blood. Cindy Kelemi from the Botswana Network on Ethics, Law and HIV/AIDS (Bonela), told Gabz Fm News last month that the restriction on gay blood donation […]
SLOVAKIA BANS GAY MARRIAGE IN ‘BACKROOM DEAL’
In what’s been described as a “backroom deal,” MPs in the Slovakian parliament have voted to outlaw same-sex marriage in the European country. One Wednesday, MPs from SMER (Social-Democrats) and KDH (Christian-Democrats) voted to define marriage as a “unique bond between a man and a woman” in the Constitution. According to the European Parliament’s Intergroup […]
MOGOENG: I WILL UPHOLD GAY RIGHTS
Controversial Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng has insisted that he will ensure that gay people’s constitutional rights are upheld. Mogoeng faced a firestorm after he recently called for religion to be brought into the law at a conference at the University of Stellenbosch. “I believe that we can only become a better people if religion could […]
WATCH: RESTAURANT PATRONS REACT TO GAY PDA
You’ll be horrified at how restaurant patrons reacted when an American hidden camera TV show planted an affectionate gay couple in their midst. Hosted by John Quiñones, What Would You Do? is a television news magazine programme that depicts how people respond to a variety of staged scenarios. In an episode last week, the show […]
ACTOR FIRED FOR CONFRONTING HOMOPHOBE IN AUDIENCE
A theatre performance went horribly wrong when a member of the audience began shouting out anti-gay slurs at the actors. On Saturday, the abusive man twice yelled out “fag” during a performance of Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in Santa Clara, California. Actor John Lacy, who played the role of Big Daddy, […]