Global Diversity Pride Network aims to make LGBTQ+ community more inclusive
A new initiative called the Global Diversity Pride Network has been launched to include and empower LGBTQ+ people of colour and others who have been marginalised and excluded.
Study finds LGBTQ inclusion in media doesn’t only speak to its rainbow audience
A new study has shown that LGBTQ affirming media doesn’t just connect to the target audience, but also make a genuine difference in the opinion of people who are not LGBTQI+.
EFF apologises to LGBTQI+ South Africans for members voting against Civil Union Amendment Bill
In an extraordinary turn of events, the EFF has apologised after three of its members in the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) voted against the Civil Union Amendment Bill.
A plea for LGBTQ+ lives to mark World Refugee Day
“We live in a no man’s land, stalked by hunger and fear.” LGBTQ asylum seeker Anold Mulaisho speaks out to mark World Refugee Day.
Indonesia | No murder charges for men who burned trans woman alive
In what appears to be an appalling miscarriage of justice, six men who set a transgender woman on fire in Indonesia will not be tried for murder.
GALA: Documenting queer history and biography for future generations
Our past gives us insight into who we are and where we are going. Angie Gallagher looks at GALA, South Africa’s queer archive which aims to preserve our LGBTQ+ history for future generations.
Lockdown | Free queer-friendly counselling support
The national lockdown not only affects us physically but also has the potential to have a huge mental and psychological impact, especially for vulnerable individuals like members of the LGBTQ community.
Outrage as Hungary moves to ban trans gender identity changes
The government of Hungary is targeting transgender people with a bill that aims to block citizens from being able to change their gender marker after birth.
PTA trans women locked out of insurance payout
A transgender woman has experienced one of the many challenges involved in updating the gender marker in her identity documents.
The 200-year-old farmer’s diary that’s rewritten LGBTQ history
You may have assumed that many of the arguments supporting same-sex love and sexuality are relatively modern ones, but a newly discovered farmer’s diary from 1810 has shown that’s definitely not the case.