Tag: South Africa
South Africa: How the ANC was won for LGBT rights
This essay is dedicated to the many heroic South African LGBT and anti-apartheid activists that I worked with during the period of white minority rule – heroes who helped secure the commitment of the African National Congress of South Africa to LGBT human rights, including the enactment of the world’s first constitution to protect LGBT people against discrimination.
Video Series Highlights Exclusion of LGBTIQ Africans from Social, Political, Economic Spheres
OutRight Action International, the global human rights organisation, is releasing a video series starting Tuesday, Nov. 17th, that explores how LGBTIQ Africans are excluded from mainstream social, political and economic participation in most countries—in violation of their basic human rights.
Public Voting Begins for Mr Gay World
Live public voting has opened in the lead-up to the Mr Gay World Competition that commences in South Africa in ten days.
Former Fire Fighter Becomes Mr Gay New Zealand
Former Royal New Zealand Air Force Fire Fighter Becomes Mr Gay New Zealand
Gay-friendly mosque opens quietly in South Africa
Against a global background of rising Islamist militancy a new mosque where gay people are welcome, Christians too, and women are treated equally to men opened peacefully in Cape Town on Friday despite threats of violence.
Homeless and HIV+ Gay Filmmaker Chases Dream
A talented, ambitious, and gay African filmmaker living in NYC, N. Mabasa-Mathope is not letting being homeless and HIV+ stand in the way of making his dream movie project a reality.