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SAFE SPACE: The poster created by Gender and Sexuality Alliance East London to show love and support to members of the LGBTQ+ community in office and public spaces during Pride Month. Picture: FAITH MTWANA

GSA supports Pride Month with posters

Pride Month is here, and the Gender and Sexuality Alliance East London is ensuring local LGBTQ+ individuals don’t miss out. They’ve created a special poster for shops, schools, healthcare facilities, businesses, and public spaces to…

Desmond TutuPicture: FILE

Archbishop Desmond Tutu honoured for lifetime service to LGBTI+ community

Archbishop Desmond Tutu has received a Lifetime Achievement Award for services to the LGBTI+ community from Outreach Africa, the organisers of Cape Town Pride 2020. The award was accepted on his behalf on Saturday by Western Cape premier…

SHE back with 7th Trans Diva pageant

Local NPO Social, Health & Empowerment (SHE) will be hosting their seventh annual Miss Trans Diva beauty pageant at the Billy Francis Hall in Buffalo Flats on Friday September 27. According to SHE programme director Wandile Dyoba, the…

Marriage officers will not be able to object to same-sex civil unions in SA

Parliament’s portfolio committee on home affairs has adopted a bill that aims to repeal legislation allowing a marriage officer to object‚ on the grounds of conscience‚ religion or belief‚ to solemnising a civil union between people of…

Transgender discrimination is worse if you are poor

When Linda Zakiyya Chamane finally made it to the police station late at night‚ her white jacket dirty and torn‚ bruises covering her body‚ she was greeted with laughter by the police. She left the station without reporting that she had…

LET’S UNITE: Last year’s Queer Spring Festival attendees enjoy a moment together at Drifters Theme Park Picture: SUPPLIED

EL to host Queer Spring Festival

The third annual Queer Spring Festival takes place on Saturday at Drifters Theme Park in East London. “The number of participants attending the festival has grown from the initial 300 to what it is now,” festival organiser Yanga Nyobo…