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Youth Come Out for Durban Pride but Government Partners Stay Under the Radar

The 2024 Durban Pride March was held under the theme “”Singabantu Nathi” (Human Too), promoting the rights of the LGBTQ+ community.

In a milestone for SA’s LGBTIQ+ community, activist Steve Letsike is appointed Deputy Minister of Women, Youth, and Persons with Disabilities.

Sex positivity is about tackling internalised stigma to claim our space, our bodies, and our right to enjoy sex without judgment or shame.

With more than a dozen cases in South Africa, an LGBTIQ+ group says that stigma and marginalisation have no role in tackling the disease.

The LGBTIQ+ community in Malawi will continue to be criminalised after the country’s High Court upheld the ban on same-sex intimacy.

An overview of LGBTIQ+ rights violations, hate speech incidents and case updates in South Africa in May 2024, collated by OUT and MambaOnline.

There’s speculation that Virgin Active’s decision to leave X is due to the toxic backlash against its trans-inclusive changeroom policy.

President Biden has issued a pardon for LGBTQ+ soldiers discharged over a 60-year period due to their sexual orientation or gender identity.

Three men, alleged to be part of the “Grindr Gang” syndicate that terrorised several gay and bisexual men in Cape Town, have been arrested.

The LGBTIQ+ community in Nelson Mandela Bay is reeling from the brutal murder of Neliseka “Nelly” Xeke, a beloved lesbian woman.