SCHOOL PUPILS DEMAND EQUALITY FOR LESBIAN GIRLS
Tembisa high school pupils in the east of Johannesburg have joined a protest against their school for allegedly discriminating against their lesbian schoolmates. Last week, media reports emerged that seven openly lesbian teenage school girls claimed to have been warned by Phomolong Secondary School Deputy Principal Mashego that their “satanic” lesbianism would not be tolerated. […]
WORLD BANK SUSPENDS $90 MILLION LOAN TO UGANDA
The World Bank has confirmed that it has put a planned loan to Uganda on hold due to the country’s recently enacted anti-gay law. The $90 million loan was intended to bolster the country’s health care system, reported Reuters, but the bank says that it now needs to assess if the discriminatory law will affect […]
FACEBOOK BOYCOTT OF UGANDA A HOAX
A message announcing Facebook’s possible withdrawal from Uganda in reaction to the country’s recently enacted Anti-Homosexuality Act has turned out to be fake. Yesterday, a number of African websites published a statement attributed to Sheryl Kara Sandberg, Facebook’s Chief Operations Officer. It reads: “When we launched Facebook, we thought it as a platform to advance people’s […]
DOES MUSEVENI HAVE A GAY LOVER?
According to a report, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s signing of his country’s anti-gay law is a cover for his passionate secret affair with a young Cape Town man. The male model claimed, said the report, that he had “a bling life, as the Ugandan president would often bankroll him and frequently fly down to Cape Town […]
ANOTHER COURT VICTORY FOR ZIM GAYS
Zimbabwe’s leading LGBT rights group gets to continue to operate following another court victory. A Harare magistrate has thrown out charges against Martha Tholanah, the chairperson of Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ), of operating the organisation illegally. She was charged, after a raid on the organisation’s offices in August 2012, with contravening the Private Voluntary Organisation (PVO) Act, […]
YEE-HAW! TEXAS GAY MARRIAGE BAN STRUCK DOWN
The judiciary across America is increasingly agreeing that state same-sex marriage bans cannot be justified. On Wednesday, US District Judge Orlando Garcia ruled that outlawing marriage for lesbian and gay couples in the deeply conservative Southern state of Texas is unconstitutional. He called the state’s voter imposed ban on same-sex marriage “state-imposed inequality” and said […]
RELIEF: ARIZONA GOVERNOR VETOES ANTI-GAY RELIGIOUS BILL
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer has vetoed a bill that would have allowed businesses to discriminate against gays and lesbians on the basis of “religious freedom.” The appalling piece of legislation was recently passed by the Republican dominated state legislature and was then sent to the governor for her approval or veto. If made law, it […]
US HATE PASTOR’S LIES BEHIND UGANDAN GAY BILL
The Guardian has highlighted the appalling influence of American evangelists on anti-gay laws in Uganda. The newspaper’s website has posted an excerpt from Roger Ross Williams’ documentary God Loves Uganda, which depicts one of the worst offenders, Scott Lively in action. It features undercover video taken by Boston-based Anglican priest, Kapya Kaoma, which shows Lively […]
MOSCOW GAY SPORTS EVENT HIT BY CANCELLATIONS
A Russian gay sports festival, meant to have started in Moscow today, has been beset by a sudden rash of last minute venue cancellations that has put the event at risk. Organised by the Russian LGBT Sport Federation, the first Open Games aims to promote “healthy lifestyles, physical activity and sports among the LGBT community […]
SA GOV WON’T COMMENT ON UGANDA LAW, BACKS QWELANE
The South African government has confirmed that it won’t condemn Uganda’s anti-gay law and sees no problem with having homophobe Jon Qwelane as its representative in Kampala. Speaking to journalists yesterday, Home Affairs Minister Naledi Pandor said: “Countries pass many bills and we don’t really comment on them, so I don’t know why you need […]