DICTIONARIES INCLUDE GAYS IN MARRIAGE DEFINITION
The world’s leading English dictionaries are acknowledging that marriage is not only between a man and a woman in their definition of the word. These revisions reflect the changing reality for gay and lesbian people in the English speaking world where same-sex marriage is receiving growning social and legal acceptance. The Guardian reports that Macmillandictionary.com […]
SAME-SEX MARRIAGE ANTHEM WINS MTV AWARD
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis won an award for their Same Love video at the MTV Music Video Awards in Brooklyn, New York on Sunday, which also featured performances by Lady Gaga and Katy Perry. The rappers first took home the Best Rap Video award for their clip for Can’t Hold Us before winning another for […]
SOUTH AFRICAN GAYS KISS IN SUPPORT OF RUSSIAN GAYS
Gay and lesbian South Africans staged kiss-in protests in Cape Town and Pretoria against Russia’s anti-gay legislation on Friday. In Pretoria, a small group of around 20 people turned out at the Russian embassy in Menlo Park. The gathering included representatives of Johannesburg Pride, Pink Loerie Mardi Gras and Mr.Gay World. Holding up signs that […]
CALL TO TREAT CHELSEA MANNING WITH RESPECT
The media and the American military have been asked to treat jailed transgender soldier Chelsea E. Manning with respect and provide appropriate medical support. Manning, who was on Thursday convicted of leaking classified documents and sentenced to 35 years in prison, announced that she would no longer identify as Bradley Manning, but as Chelsea. “As […]
WENTWORTH MILLER COMES OUT AS GAY
Prison Break actor and screenwriter Wentworth Miller has come out as gay while declining an invitation to the St. Petersburg International Film Festival in Russia. Miller’s sexuality has long been a topic of speculation and on Wednesday he confirmed that he is gay. In a letter to the film festival’s director, posted on the GLAAD […]
HOLLYWOOD NOT DOING ENOUGH WHEN IT COMES TO GAYS
American LGBT media group GLAAD has slammed Hollywood’s big studios for including so few LGBT characters in the films they released last year. This according to the organisation’s first Studio Responsibility Index (SRI), a report that “maps the quantity, quality and diversity of images of LGBT people in films released by the six major motion […]
MUGABE ATTACKS ‘FILTHY GAYS’ AT INAUGURATION
Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s proudly homophobic president, has lashed out at gay people during his inauguration speech on Thursday in Harare. Mugabe, who seems obsessed by the issue, said that young people should reject homosexuality just as his government has done. “We hope you damn as much as we damn the doctrine that man can marry […]
CAPE TOWN TO JOIN RUSSIAN KISS-IN PROTEST
Pucker up Cape Town! It’s been announced that a kiss-in protest against Russia’s anti-gay law planned for Pretoria on Friday will now also be held in the Mother City. Members of South Africa’s LGBTIAQ community have been urged to gather outside the Russian embassy in Pretoria and the consulate in Cape Town at lunchtime and […]
LESBIAN SURVIVES RAPE KNIFE ATTACK
A lesbian woman has recounted her survival of an attack by a knife wielding man who tried to rape her in the township of Vosloorus, in Ekurhuleni, east of Johannesburg. Matlatse “Sweeto” Makgai told the blog Inkanyiso.org about the incident which took place the week after Women’s Day, earlier this month. According to the 26-year-old […]
CALVIN KLEIN’S STRAIGHT EX BOYFRIEND IN GAY PARTY ROW
Former x-rated model and Calvin Klein boyfriend Nick Gruber has been accused of homophobic behaviour at a gay party on the popular New York gay hotspot of Fire Island. The 23-year-old Gruber, who’s been stating in interviews that he’s straight, has been in an on-off relationship with the fashion designer for a number of years. […]