ALL THE JOBURG PRIDE INFO
More details about this Saturday’s Johannesburg Pride in Sandton, which will include a march, have been released by the organisers. The event, which was set to take place on September 28, was controversially postponed at the last minute after the Johannesburg Pride Planning Committee said that the original Newtown inner city location was unsafe. Johannesburg […]
DUDUZILE MURDER SUSPECT IN COURT
A 22-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the horror slaying of 26-year-old lesbian Duduzile Zozo. Zozo’s body was found in Thokoza, outside of Johannesburg, on Sunday 30 June. She had been raped with a toilet brush and is believed to have been strangled to death. Her degrading and brutal murder made headlines and […]
RUSSIA: GAY PARENT BILL DROPPED
A bill that was set to take children away from their gay or lesbian parents in Russia has been dropped, at least for now. According to Interfax, the bill proposed by the deputy of the Russian State Duma, Alexey Zhuravlev, failed to secure sufficient support and was withdrawn for redrafting. Zhuravlyov’s assistant, Sofya Cherepanova, told […]
GIVE JAILED ZAMBIAN MEN BAIL!
Human rights groups – the Southern African Litigation Centre (SALC) and the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) – say that the Zambian High Court must give bail to two awaiting trial men jailed for almost five months on charges of homosexuality. James Mwape and Philip Mubiana, both 22-years-old and from Kapiri, have been accused […]
NJ COURT: YES TO GAY MARRIAGES
An attempt by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to stop same-sex marriages from going ahead in his state has been thwarted. On Friday, the New Jersey Supreme Court unanimously declined Christie’s request for a stay of a lower court’s ruling that civil marriage licenses be granted to same-sex couples beginning today, October 21st. The governor […]
CHILE NEO-NAZI GAY KILLERS GUILTY
A Chilean court has found four men guilty of the horrific torture and murder of a young gay man that generated international headlines. Twenty-four-year-old Daniel Zamudio was viciously assaulted over a period of hours in a park in Santiago in March. His attackers, believed to be part of a neo-Nazi group, not only beat him […]
MAYORS MUST MARRY GAY COUPLES
France’s mayors have been told by that country’s highest court that they cannot opt out of marrying same-sex couples. In June, Jean-Michel Colo, the mayor of the town of Arcangues, refused to marry a gay couple after rejecting France’s marriage equality law as “illegitimate”. Other mayors in France also refused to accept the law and […]
UWC STUDENTS ASSERT GAY RIGHTS
On Monday, student organisations at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) launched an awareness week called “From the same soil.” Volunteers, students and members of organisations from within and outside the university painted the campus with a multitude of colours as they marched around the university to kick off the LGBTI Awareness Campaign. Groups […]
CAMERON: OUR STRUGGLE’S NOT OVER
Constitutional Court Justice Edwin Cameron says that the struggle of gay and lesbian people in South Africa is far from over. The continent’s only openly gay and HIV positive judge opened the 20th edition of the Out in Africa (OIA) Gay and Lesbian Film Festival in Johannesburg on Wednesday night. In his speech, Cameron told […]
ETHICS MINISTER: GAY MARRIAGE IS BESTIALITY
Simon Lokodo, Uganda’s laughably titled Minister of Ethics and Integrity, has affirmed his commitment to eradicating homosexuality in Uganda. In an extensive interview with Uganda’s The Independent, Lokodo reveals an appalling lack of insight into democratic values and human rights, expressing a wide range of stereotyped and offensive views. He explains that his mandate includes […]