GHANA: “PUNISH GAY STUDENTS”
Ghana’s education ministry has promised to crack down on students caught engaging in gay or lesbian “practices”. According to XYZ News, the ministry said that action was being taken to “stamp out homosexuality that has crept into several senior high schools”. The threat follows a report concerning a young girl who was apparently forced to […]
STOP GAY CURE CONFERENCE
A campaign has been launched to stop the Marriott Hotels chain from hosting a ‘gay cure’ conference in America in a week’s time. The National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) conference is set to take place at the Phoenix Marriott Airport Hotel in Arizona on the 8th and 9th of November. Founded in […]
GAY BRIT ARRESTED IN UGANDA
There are efforts to support a British man who was arrested after he was ‘outed’ by a notoriously homophobic Ugandan tabloid. Retired banker Bernard Randall, who lives in Uganda, believes that robbers who broke into his home found a gay pornographic video on his laptop and passed it on the Red Pepper newspaper. The tabloid […]
GAY PRIDE EVENTS FOR SOCHI?
The Pride House organisation is determined to see a host of LGBT affirming venues and events at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, despite Russia’s gay propaganda law. Pride House International (PHI) said on Tuesday that it intends to “overcome the legal obstacles from Russian authorities to the creation of a Pride House at […]
PARALYSED GAY GYMNAST IMPROVES
An openly gay American gymnast who was paralysed following a tragic training accident is said to be steadily improving. Kalon Ludvigson is the USA’s most decorated Trampoline and Tumbling athlete ever; having won 20 World Cup and World Championships Medals, two World Records and eight Consecutive USA National Titles. In August, during a training session, he had […]
STRAIGHT MAN GAY BASHED
A straight American man was beaten up after defending his gay friends in Omaha, Nebraska over the weekend. Ryan Langenegger and his two gay friends, Josh Foo and Jacob Gellinger, were eating at a restaurant on Saturday night when three men began to verbally abuse his pals. Langenegger told WOWT 6 News that one of […]
BISHOPS SAY NO TO GAY MARRIAGE
Over three hundred traditionalist Anglican bishops have committed themselves to the principle that marriage can only be between a woman and a man. Almost half the world’s 700 or so Anglican bishops met in Nairobi, Kenya last week for the second Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON). GAFCON first took place in 2008 in response to what conservative Anglicans called […]
KENYAN GAYS SUE THE STATE
An LGBT group in Kenya is taking the state to court because it won’t allow the organisation to register as an NGO. Gay Star News reports that Kenya’s National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (NGLHRC) claims that the government is discriminating against it and infringing on its constitutional right to free association. The Non-Governmental […]
SA PSYCHOLOGISTS VS JON QWELANE
The Psychological Society of South Africa (PsySSA) is set to provide evidence against Jon Qwelane in the long running hate speech case against the homophobic former journalist. Qwelane is hoping to overturn his 2011 hate speech conviction for his notoriously homophobic 2008 article “Call me names, but gay is NOT okay…” He is specifically challenging […]
TORTURE OF LGBT PRISONERS
In a shocking development, an HIV and LGBT human rights organisation has discovered a group of 10 previously unknown people jailed for homosexuality in a Cameroon prison. In a statement, CAMFAIDS said that it identified the prisoners, who had been arbitrarily detained on the basis of their perceived or actual sexual orientation or gender identity, during recent visits to the central prison in […]