DIVERSE CULTURES CELEBRATE CAPE TOWN PRIDE SOUTH AFRICA – 09 March 2010: Thousands of SA’s gay people, the media, families and friends of, flocked Cape Town’s Greenpoint, to witness the 2010 Annual Pride Parade which, according to the organizers, aimed to unite all cultures in the mother city. Themed "Uniting Cultures of Cape Town", the event attracted an estimated eight thousand people from throughout South Africa, Africa and
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MINISTER OF ARTS AND CLUELESS SOUTH AFRICA – 09 March 2010: Zanele Muholi, the Umlazi-born photographer whose exhibition ‘Being’ was branded “immoral” by Arts and Culture Minister Lulu Xingwana, has struck back, calling the minister’s homophobic comments “hate speech”. SHARON COOPER interviewed her via Skype in Australia, where she is on a scholarship, on art, lesbian identity and prejudice. [more]
GROWING DEMAND FOR ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION 08 March 2010 – SOUTH AFRICA: The joys of motherhood linger in many same sex relationships, and for many couples, pregnancy remains just a dream, but with the availability of alternative methods of falling pregnant, such as artificial insemination, the dream of a lesbian mothering her own child can become reality.
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NEW SHOW TO TACKLE HOMOSEXUALITY IN BLACK COMMUNITIES SOUTH AFRICA – 08 March 2010: A stage play aiming to tackle intolerance of gay people in black communities and churches starts at Windy Brow Theatre on 11 – 21 March 2010. Tittled Like Cain and Abel, the production of the play was encouraged by the lack of acceptance of bisexual and gay people in black communities. [more]
ZAMBIA’S NEW CONSTITUTION FORBIDS SAME SEX MARRIAGES ZAMBIA – 08 March 2010: While Zambia undergoes a Constitution Review Process, the gay community in that country has been dealt a severe blow by the National Constitutional Conference (NCC)’s decision to adopt a clause that prohibits marriage between people of the same sex.
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XINGWANA: HOMOPHOBIC CLAIMS 'BASELESS, INSULTING' SOUTH AFRICA – 05 March 2010: Female artists snubbed by Arts and Culture Minister Lulu Xingwana at an exhibition last year have called her response homophobic and unconstitutional, despite the minister's protests to the contrary, the Mail & Guardian heard on Thursday. [more]
MINISTER SLAMS 'PORN' EXHIBITION EXCLUSIVE - 03 March 2010: The opening of an exhibition by young, black women artists at Constitution Hill turned sour when Arts and Culture Minister Lulu Xingwana stormed out of the exhibition, calling the work "immoral". Xingwana, whose department gave R300,000 to the Innovative Women exhibition, which was launched in Johannesburg to coincide with Women's Day last August, left before she was due to speak at the opening. [more]
UGANDA: PETITION OPPOSING ANTI-HOMOSEXUALITY LAW DELIVERED TO PARLIAMENT UGANDA - 03 March 2010: An online petition containing more than 450,000 signatures has been presented to the Uganda Parliament, urging members to withdraw a proposed bill that, if passed, would broaden the criminalization of homosexuality in the East African country and introduce the death penalty in certain cases. [more]
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MARTIN SSEMPA AND STEPHEN LANGA VS SMUG:the proxy ideological war is waged in Uganda
The battle lines are drawn. On one side is Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) plus its local Ugandan cohorts, and on the other are groups like Colorado-based Wait Training and California-based Abiding Truth Ministries. In many ways, it is a battle of David against Goliath given the stature of the players. But in the Biblical fable, Goliath ended up on the losing end so this is a battle still worth watching. More...
A stage play, Like Cain & Abel, aiming to tackle intolerance of lesbians gays in black communities is opening on Wednsday 11 March at Window-Brow Theatre in Johannesburg running until 21 March 2010.More...
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joburg pride lures big sponsors SOUTHA AFRICA – June 20, 2008: Themed Love not Hate, Joburg Pride announced today that it has secured two substantial sponsorships for this year’s gay pride festival. [more]
Cathy Crimmins, author of How the Homosexuals Saved Civilization
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