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A close friend of the slain owner of Cape Town’s Bronx nightclub has told reporters that friends and family will hold a special memorial service on Friday this week. Read the rest of this entry »

Police in Cape Town are invesitgating the death of Bruno Bronn, the owner of popular Cape Town gay nightclub Bronx who was on Tuesday found dead in his house with his hands bound. Read the rest of this entry »

The Mother City’s much anticipated annual pink affair, the Cape Town Pride2012 festival has been scheduled to run from March 2 to 11 this year. Read the rest of this entry »

OUT Wellbeing has launched a ground breaking campaign which aims to educate men who have sex with men (MSM) about the dangers of casual sexual dates with strangers. Read the rest of this entry »

Namibian gay rights group Out-Right Namibia (ORN) on Thursday last week condemned a physical assault on a homosexual man, after he won a title in the first ever Mr Gay Namibia contest. Read the rest of this entry »

A new Kenyan community page has been started on the popular social forum Facebook, dubbed Q-Events Kenya (recently changed from Q –Events Nairobi) to provide a noticeboard for LGBTI events. Read the rest of this entry »

Lance Weyer, an elected councillor on the Buffalo City metropolitan municipality in South Africa’s Eastern Cape Province has been crowned Mr Gay SA 2011. Read the rest of this entry »

The Kenyan gay community has been rattled by the news of Monday morning’s grenade attack on a Nairobi city bar, Mwaura’s, frequented by MSM and male sex workers. Read the rest of this entry »

 The third and final leg of the 2011 South African gay and lesbian film festival, Out in Africa opened in Johannesburg with a screening of the award winning 2010 experimental US film, Howl.  Read the rest of this entry »

Gay Umbrella is hosting the fifth annual Mr and Miss Gay competition, as well as a Pride Parade, in Klerksdorp on 10 December. Read the rest of this entry »