GAY RESOURCE FOR SCHOOL TEACHERS LAUNCHED IN KZN
A hands-on, easy-to-use school curriculum training module on LGBTI issues for teachers to use in the classroom has been launched in Durban. The module was developed as the culmination of a study initiated by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Head of the College of Humanities, Professor Cheryl Potgieter, and Co-Principal Investigators, Drs. Thabo Msibi and Finn […]
UGANDA TARGETS GROUP FOR “PROMOTING HOMOSEXUALITY”
The Ugandan government appears to be targeting organisations that are part of a coalition seeking to overturn the reviled Anti-Homosexuality Act. Well-known LGBTI activist Dr. Frank Mugisha tweeted on Tuesday that NTV News had reported that the activities of the Refugee Law Project (RLP) have been “halted due their pro gay support.” RLP hosts the […]
FACEBOOK LAUNCHES GAY PRIDE EMOTICONS
To celebrate Pride month in the US and other countries, Facebook has released 28 colourful gay themed emoticons for use in its messages and chats. The emoticons, or stickers as Facebook calls them, include gay sailors, a drag queen, marrying same-sex couples, plenty of rainbow imagery, a leather daddy and proud parents of a gay […]
BRITISH ROYALS IGNORE ANTI-GAY HOTEL BOYCOTT
The Duchess of Cambridge and Princes William and Harry have ignored an international boycott of hotels owned by the anti-gay Sultan of Brunei. The Dorchester Collection hotel chain is being boycotted by human rights groups and a number of public figures, including business magnate Richard Branson and American Vogue’s Anna Wintour, after the sultan imposed a new […]
ZAMBIA ‘GAY COUPLE’ VERDICT DELAYED AFTER YEAR IN JAIL
After spending more than a year in jail, the nightmarish homosexuality trial of two Zambian men has been delayed again. Barber Philip Mubiana and bricklayer James Mwape, both in their early twenties, are charged with having ‘carnal knowledge against the order of nature.’ The verdict in their trial was meant to have been delivered on […]
POLICE ARREST MOSCOW PRIDE ACTIVISTS
Efforts to hold gay Pride events in Moscow have once again been stymied by the authorities, reports the Moscow Times. On Saturday, around 30 activists took part in two Pride rallies. One was held in front of the Moscow mayor’s office and another in Gorky Park. A car with two people waving rainbow flag from its sun […]
ANTI-GAY GROUP: SEND BACK HARVEY MILK STAMP!
The fundamentalist Christian American Family Association (AFA) is up in arms over the issuing of a stamp commemorating the late gay rights icon Harvey Milk. The stamp was launched at the White House by the United States Postal Service on 22 May, which would have been Milk’s 84th birthday. Last week, the outraged AFA offensively […]
ANTI-GAY UGANDAN MINISTER SET FOR TOP UN POST
There’s growing anger that Uganda’s Foreign Minister, Sam K. Kutesa, will this month become the head of the UN General Assembly. Critics have pointed out that Kutesa, who has also been accused of corruption, represents his country’s repressive administration, led by President Museveni, which earlier this year enacted the appalling Anti-Homosexuality Act. He has defended […]
OBAMA PROCLAIMS JUNE LGBT PRIDE MONTH
President Barack Obama has once again proclaimed the month of June Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month, noting that it has been 45 years since the Stonewall Riots ignited the LGBT rights movement. In an official Presidential Proclamation on Friday, he celebrated recent advances in American LGBT equality, such as the wave of same-sex […]
NIGERIAN SENATOR WARNS OF ‘OPPRESSION’ BY GAYS
A senior Nigerian senator has absurdly claimed that gay people are aiming to “oppress” and “blackmail” the rest of society. According to the Daily Trust, Senate Majority Leader, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, has urged Nigerians to “not succumb to blackmail of minority advocates and supporters of same-sex marriage to allow such union[s] in the country.” In […]