Behind the Mask | The Voice of Africa's LGBTI Community

Three African transgender and intersex rights advocacy organizations have formed an alliance to enhance the trans and intersex movement on the continent. Read the rest of this entry »

South Africa’s Gay & Lesbian Network has received a special distinction award from the French National Consultative Commission on Human Rights. Read the rest of this entry »

Western nations have been asked not to “talk down” to governments in the rest of the world on the issue of gay rights. Read the rest of this entry »

The South African Press Association (Sapa) reported this morning that four men have today been jailed for 18 years for stabbing and stoning 19-year-old lesbian Zoliswa Nkonyana to death in 2006. 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 »

The long running case of a murdered Cape Town lesbian Zoliswa Nkonyana seems set to draw to a close this week with the sentencing of the four men convicted of killing her. Read the rest of this entry »

The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon over the weekend urged African leaders to respect gay rights. Read the rest of this entry »

A visiting American evangelist, Pastor Joseph Tolton, has criticised Uganda’s Anti Homosexuality Bill saying the conservative US evangelicals who backed the legislation “have lost the moral and cultural war.” Read the rest of this entry »

The US deputy Secretary of State Ambassador William Burns, is leading a high profile delegation to Uganda Friday to discuss human rights with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni. Read the rest of this entry »