2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (405+ words) Soweto Pride returns this September for its 22nd anniversary, bringing LGBTQIA+ communities, allies and supporters together for two days of visibility, resistance, remembrance and queer joy. Hosted by the Forum for the Empowerment of Women (FEW), this year’s main Soweto Pride…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (535+ words) Ekurhuleni’s LGBTQIA+ community is preparing to come together for this year’s Pride celebration in the Gauteng metro on Saturday 12 September. Organisers are promising a day that combines visibility and celebration with remembrance, solidarity and access to essential services. According to…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1807+ words) MambaOnline’s Managing Editor, Nompilo Gwala, had the opportunity to sit down with former Constitutional Court Justice Edwin Cameron at his home in Johannesburg for an in-depth catch-up about what he has been up to since retiring from the South African…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (318+ words) Two people have been shot dead outside an LGBTQ+ bar in the US city of Tucson, Arizona, in what police believe may have been a hate crime targeting the LGBTQ+ community. According to local media, Ousman Ceesay, 44, confronted two men…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (462+ words) The human rights situation for LGBTQ+ people in Indonesia is deteriorating rapidly, warn activists, in part fuelled by a 2025 national defence policy that lists the “spread of LGBTQ+ culture” among the country’s threats. Indonesia does not have a national criminal…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (486+ words) In a significant statement, Ghana’s Anglican Archbishop of West Africa, Dr Cyril Kobina Ben-Smith, has asserted that the church does not support the criminalisation of LGBTQ+ people. Ben-Smith, who is the Archbishop and Primate of the Church of the Province…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (442+ words) Soweto Pride returns this September for its 22nd anniversary, bringing together LGBTQIA+ communities, allies and supporters under the theme “iSango lenkululeko – Our Heritage”. As South Africa marks 50 years since the Soweto Uprising and reflects on 30 years of constitutional democracy, this year’s…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (401+ words) Senegal’s crackdown on LGBTQ+ people continues, with 71 people referred to a criminal court following a mass arrest operation amid the country’s escalating criminalisation of same-sex intimacy. At least 99 people were arrested on suspicion of same-sex intimacy in a widespread crackdown…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago   (695+ words) Civil society organisations working on the front lines of countries criminalising LGBTIQ+ people have called on French President Emmanuel Macron to halt plans for a new Human Rights Council resolution on the decriminalisation of consensual same-sex relations. While this may…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (254+ words) The national Pride Flag Tour campaign, which promotes stigma-free healthcare for LGBTIQ+ people in South Africa, kicked off in Limpopo this week. Led by The Aurum Institute’s POP INN programme in partnership with the Institute of Health Programs and Systems…...