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Monday, September 01
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-- World OutGames 2009 will be held from July 25 to August 2, 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Organizers are offering a limited time deal on fees for both participants and visitors. Those who register before October 1, 2008 will get a 20% discount . Participants can register for the games in any of the 38 sports, for the conference, or for a cultural package (including the Queer Tango Festival and Out Choir Festival ). Visitors can also register for tourist packages or book a hotel according to the OutGames website . -- In what's believed to be South Africa's first divorce of a lesbian couple...
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Friday, August 29
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Source: The Citizen , Independent Online , SABC News JOHANNESBURG - In a watershed judgment, a Pretoria High Court judge on Wednesday ordered the NG Church Moreleta Park to pay damages and unconditionally apologize to the music teacher they fired because they found out he is gay . Judge Dion Basson ruled that the church had unfairly discriminated against music teacher Johan Strydom on the grounds of his sexual orientation when they fired him from his post in their music academy in 2005, The Citizen reports. He ordered the church to pay about R87,000 [about $11,200 USD] to Strydom for his loss of...
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Tuesday, August 12
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Source: Citizen , Independent Online , SABC News A tearful gay music lecturer who was given the boot by the Dutch Reformed (NG) Church in Moreleta Park told the Pretoria high court on Monday that he was fired because of his sexual orientation, Independent Online reports. Qnews update: Court: SA church that fired gay music teacher must pay and apologize (29-Aug-08) Johan Strydom, 31, instituted a R100,000 [about $13,000 USD] damages claim for loss of income and the impairment of his dignity with the congregation after they abruptly terminated his services as a music lecturer at the church’s arts...
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Wednesday, June 11
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Source: Reuters , AFP NEW YORK -- A leading human rights group has appealed to Gambian President Yahya Jammeh to disavow his reported comments encouraging violence against gays. In an open letter to Jammeh, New York-based Human Rights Watch also said it was concerned about the arrest or questioning of at least four people in The Gambia's capital Banjul following his statements. "We urge you to publicly disavow threats and vilification directed against gays and lesbian people in Gambia," said the letter signed by Scott Long, director of HRW's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender...
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Thursday, June 05
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Source: ThinkSpain.com , Associated Press , DPA via EarthTimes BANJUL, Gambia -- The two Spanish tourists arrested in Gambia last weekend and charged with making "homosexual propositions" were released from custody last night. Their release followed a telephone conversation between Spanish Foreign Affairs minister Miguel Ángel Moratinos and a local diplomat yesterday evening, the website ThinkSpain.com reports, based on news items in Spanish media. Immediately after their release, Spanish diplomats arranged for the two Catalan tourists, who have been identified as PJ (56) and JM (54)...
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Wednesday, June 04
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Source: News24.com , Reuters , Advocate Kampala -- Ugandan Police arrested a group of gay activists demanding the right to HIV/AIDS treatment at an international AIDS conference in Kampala on Wednesday. "Two young women and a man stormed the conference venue uninvited and we had to arrest them," senior police commander Byakagaba Abas told Reuters at the meeting in Kampala. South Africa's News24.com reports that hundreds of activists disrupted the morning plenary session of the conference, calling for rights, recognition, and access to services and funds extended to groups involved...
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Tuesday, June 03
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Source: Voice of America , News24.com , PinkNews.com Human rights groups say Monday's arrest of two Spanish men in The Gambia for allegedly making homosexual advances is part of a continuing human rights problem in West Africa. "We are equally concerned with local Gambians who, as you know, will be facing this kind of repression after the media spotlight is no longer on the Gambia," said Cary Alan Johnson, the Senior Africa Specialist for New-York based International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission. The Spanish tourists were detained in the coastal resort of Kotu on charges...
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Monday, June 02
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Source: The Point (Banjul, Gambia) , Afrik.com , Associated Press via IHT Police in Gambia arrested two Spanish men last Friday for allegedly making what press reports call "homosexual proposals" to taxi drivers. Pere Joan, 56, and Juan Monpserratrusau, 54, were held at Kotu police station, Gambia's The Point newspaper reported. The arrests comes against the backdrop of the pronouncements of President Yahya Jammeh last month in which he condemned homosexuality as a menace in the country, and issued an ultimatum for any gay people in the country to leave within 24 hours. related in...
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Friday, May 23
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Source: News.com.au , BBC News ECCENTRIC Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has threatened to behead gays unless they leave the country, according to reports. "The Gambia is a country of believers ... sinful and immoral practices (such) as homosexuality will not be tolerated in this country," the president told a crowd at a political rally on May 15, local journalists said today. He told the rally that gay people had 24 hours to leave the country. He promised "stricter laws than Iran" on homosexuality and said he would "cut off the head" of any gay person found in The...
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Wednesday, May 07
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Source: ABC News (US) ABC News photo by Tony Karuma It's far from a comprehensive portrait, but ABC News (US) offers a few snapshots of gay life in a country where being gay is illegal -- Kenya. As part of a series on nightlife around the world, ABC's Dana Hughes reports from the the country's vibrant and cosmopolitan capital of Nairobi. Hughes reports that the city has a wide array of clubs for both locals and tourists -- everything from upscale all-night dance clubs to dives where locals gather to talk politics. What it doesn't have is a gay club. The closest things come are a...
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Thursday, April 10
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Source: Reuters , Same Same CAIRO -- An Egyptian court on Wednesday convicted and jailed five men arrested on morals charges in what rights groups have described as an escalating crackdown on Egyptians living with HIV. Court sources said the men, four of whom are HIV-positive, were sentenced to three years in jail for the "habitual practice of debauchery", a charge rights groups say is used in Egypt to criminalize consensual homosexual sex acts. "These convictions are clearly based on ignorance and fear of AIDS rather than on any crime committed," said Hossam Bahgat, head of...
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Tuesday, April 08
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Source: Bloomberg Cairo, Egypt -- A series of arrests of gay men are part of an effort by governments throughout the Middle East and North Africa to out-moralize Islamic parties that have denounced the perceived depravity of Arab societies under autocratic rule, Bloomberg reports in an in-depth story on the dangerous phenomenon. For three months, Egyptian police have embarked on periodic sweeps of downtown streets to clear them of presumed homosexuals, Bloomberg's Daniel Williams reports. Homosexuality isn't illegal in Egypt, though it is a convenient target, says Hani Shukrallah, executive...
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Sunday, April 06
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Source: Independent Online , Times (South Africa) , Frost Illustrated , News24 Cape Town, South Africa -- The retired Archbishop of Cape Town and Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu paid glowing tribute Wednesday to anti-apartheid and gay rights activist Ivan Toms. He said Toms had been physically small, "But what a dynamo for goodness, for justice, compassion," he said. "He stood up for justice too against the awful wind of homophobia, as a gay person comfortable with his sexuality... "I am thankful to God that he touched me, and I am a better man than I would have been without...
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Wednesday, March 26
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Source: Associated Press via Seattle PI , Independent Online , Mail & Guardian Cape Town health director Ivan Toms after he was awarded the Order of the Baobab in Bronze. photo via Cape Times Cape Town, South Africa -- Ivan Toms, a South African anti-apartheid and gay rights activist who played a key role in the campaign to end conscription of young white men to bolster the racist apartheid security forces has died. He was 55. He was found dead in his Mowbray home on Tuesday, police said. He died of meningitis, Cape Town city manager Achmat Ebrahim said on Wednesday. A "devastated"...
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Tuesday, March 25
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Source: AFP , Reuters RABAT -- A Moroccan court convicted Rachid Ninni, the boss of a daily newspaper, of libel Tuesday and ordered him to pay damages of six million dirhams (524,000 euros / 816,000 dollars) to four prosecutors. The court in the capital Rabat also told Ninni, managing editor of the Arabic-language Al Massae, to pay 120,000 dirhams as a fine to the state, and ruled that its verdict must be published in four newspapers, including his own. The editor said the paper would appeal the verdict and expressed concern that the authorities were using the courts to try and shut down a troublesome...
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Sunday, March 23
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Source: UK Gay News , GayNZ.com LAGOS -- A gay leader of the Changing Attitude Nigeria (CAN) group in Nigeria says he feared for his life after a mob attack outside a funeral ceremony in Port Harcourt on Thursday. "I have never known fear like I knew when they were brutalizing me. I thought they were going to kill me there and then," says the victim, who did not want to be named. On its website, CAN says the group is "Working for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender affirmation within the Anglican Communion." The group's goal, according to the site is "the day when...
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Friday, March 14
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Source: Reuters via Yahoo News KSAR EL KEBIR, Morocco (Reuters) - When rumors of a "gay wedding" spread through the northern Moroccan town of Ksar el Kebir, the only evidence produced was a video on YouTube of a man dancing suggestively in women's clothes. Three months later, four people are in prison accused of homosexual acts, Islamists are decrying a decline in public morals and liberals are warning that the north African kingdom risks sleep-walking into extremism. Background: Elements of the Morocco press inflamed the rioting A reputation as a tolerant, nascent democracy has earned...
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Friday, March 07
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Source: Reuters TUNIS, March 7 (Reuters Life!) - Homosexual men living with HIV/AIDS In the Arab world face a twin taboo, but Karim doesn't look like someone burdened by stigma. Smiling and self-assured, the healthy looking Tunisian says his peace of mind comes from accepting what he cannot change, living in the moment and taking care to present a normal face to the world. The 34-year-old draws the menace from his infection by seeing it as his offspring. "Personally, I accept the illness. I consider the virus my little baby. Together, we make up the same person," he said. Karim, one...
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Thursday, February 28
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Source: Yemen Times In Morocco, articles published by the Arabic-language Al Massae daily have led to a strong division of the press. According to Said Essoulami, director of the Casablanca-based Centre for Media Freedom in the Middle East and North Africa, this controversy shows the difficulties of Moroccan media to cover sexual, cultural, political and ideological diversities. It all started in November 2007, when Al Massae reported on a supposed gay marriage ceremony that according to the paper had taken place in the small Ksar el Kebir town in the north of Morocco. Images shot at this private...
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Tuesday, February 19
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Source: Guardian and AP via International Herald Tribune The Anglican church in Uganda yesterday threatened to leave the worldwide communion unless the US Episcopal church condemned homosexuality. The ultimatum came from the Rev Aaron Mwesigye, provincial secretary and spokesman for the Ugandan church, who warned that the attitude of some American clergy could trigger the disintegration of the world's third biggest Christian denomination. He said, "If they don't change and continue to support homosexual practices and same-sex marriage, our relationship with them will be completely...
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Monday, February 18
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Source: Reuters KHARTOUM (Reuters) - When Ali started blogging that he was Sudanese and gay, he did not realize he was joining a band of African and Middle Eastern gays and lesbians who, in the face of hostility and repression, have come out online. Ali, who lists his home town as Khartoum but lives in Qatar, had plugged into a small, self-supporting network of people who have launched Web sites about their sexuality, while keeping their full identity secret. Caution is crucial - homosexual acts are illegal in most countries in Africa and the Middle East, with penalties ranging from long-term imprisonment...
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Tuesday, February 05
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Source: Afrol News , AFP via Africasia.com , Kenya Today Dakar -- Gay rights organizations, the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) and Pan-Africa ILGA, condemned the arrest and detention of several gay suspects in the Senegalese capital Dakar at the weekend, demanding the "immediate and unconditional release" of the men. In a letter to the Senegalese Minister of Justice, the organizations expressed outrage and concern over the issue. Senegalese security clamped down on the men after a popular local magazine, Icones, splashed photographs of what was described...
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Saturday, January 19
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Source: Independent (Cape Argus) Even by South African standards, the Sizzlers massacre on January 20, 2003 was shocking. Nine men were slaughtered in one night. They were bound, their throats slit and then shot in the head before being left in pools of blood in the white Sea Point house with matching picket fence. Only one man, with a bullet wound to the head, and three small dogs, survived the massacre. Sizzlers killers Adam Woest and Trevor Theys are both serving life sentences for the murders. Following the grisly attack the spotlight turned on to the "rent boy" industry and calls...
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Wednesday, January 16
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Source: Associated Press via Google and Canada East YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — Three men convicted of homosexuality -- a crime in Cameroon -- were sentenced to six months' hard labor, their lawyer said Wednesday. Lazare Baeeg, Emmanuel Balep and Tony Dikongue were arrested last August and have already spent nearly six months in detention in the port city of Douala. In Cameroon and several other African nations, homosexuality is a crime. Convictions usually carry a maximum penalty of three years in prison and a fine of up to $450. Following the Douala high court's decision, their defense lawyer...
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Tuesday, January 15
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Source: Reuters via The Star and Xinhua RABAT -- A Moroccan appeal court on Tuesday upheld the convictions of six men jailed for homosexual acts after video images of a man dressed as a woman dancing at a party sparked street protests and a police investigation, lawyers said. The six were arrested in late November after rumours spread that a party they had held in the northern town of Ksar el Kebir was really an illegal gay wedding. Video images, leading to street protests and a police investigation, showed one of the six men dressed as a woman dancing at a party they held in the northern town...
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Tuesday, January 15
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Source: Cape Argus The Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa rejected gay marriages after a lengthy debate at its general assembly last week. The national synod has met all last week to discuss various issues. In what became a five-hour discussion about homosexuality, the DRC synod agreed that marriages would only be recognized if they were between a man and a woman. Through most of its history, the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa was closely tied to the Afrikaner community and its apartheid system. After the national church was expelled from the World Alliance of Reformed Churches in the...
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Sunday, December 30
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Source: Jerusalem Post The battle over homosexuality that has threatened to split the Anglican Communion could be decided at a June meeting in Jerusalem. On December 26, a conservative coalition led by the archbishop of Nigeria, Peter Akinola, announced a June 15-22 conference in the Holy Land to chart the church's future course. Divided into liberal and conservative factions, the 80-million member Anglican Communion is on the verge of breaking up over the consecration in 2003 of a gay priest as bishop of New Hampshire. However, Anglicans are as divided over Israel as they over homosexuality...
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Wednesday, December 19
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Source: Los Angeles Times , AFP , Telegraph , IOL.co.za POLOKWANE, SOUTH AFRICA -- Populist Jacob Zuma overcame allegations of corruption and rape to win the leadership of South Africa's governing party Tuesday, putting the candidate of the country's poor and angry townships on course to become the next president. The vote represents a dramatic shift for South Africa, where Nelson Mandela and his successor, the elegant and intellectual President Thabo Mbeki, presided over an era of remarkable political and economic stability after the end of apartheid in 1994. A populist former guerrilla...
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Wednesday, December 19
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Source: UK Gay News MANCHESTER, December 17, 2007 – Archbishop Desmond Tutu has apologised to gay people all around the world for the way they have been treated by the Church. The Archbishop recently criticised the church for being ‘obsessed’ with homosexuality but speaking on the only gay programme on the BBC he goes further and says he’s ‘sorry’. The Archbishop and Nobel Peace Prize winner says “sorry” to the worldwide LGBT community in an exclusive recorded interview with Ashley Byrne, presenter of Gay Hour , transmitted Monday on BBC Radio Manchester. “I want to apologise to you and to all...
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Friday, November 30
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Source: allAfrica.com by Melanie Judge It is hard not to feel pessimistic when it comes to 16 Days of Activism. The killers of Sizakele Sigasa and Salome Masooa, two lesbian activists murdered in Soweto in July, have still to be brought to book. The murder of Thokozane Qwabe in Ladysmith remains unresolved. And, as I write this, another two lesbian women have been targeted for attack at a township gay bar, followed, and then shot: one of them fatally. These recent violent attacks and murders have left many of us deeply saddened and enraged. Many more are non-plussed. Yet, these attacks on lesbian...
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