Homophobia
What we need to do to tackle queerphobic hate crimes beyond our Constitution
Refilwe Moloto spoke to Justice Edwin Cameron on how we can better protect members of the LGBTQI+ community from hate crimes and discrimination.
Under a controversial law passed in April, the UK plans to send asylum-seekers deemed to have arrived illegally on British soil to Rwanda, an East African country 6,000 kilometres from London, starting in mid-June.
A recent report by the activist group Accept-LGBTI Cyprus surveyed around 100 people and revealed the scope of widely discredited practices that claim to be able to change sexual orientation or gender identity still being carried out on the Mediterranean island.
Festival director, Matthew van As, said that they hoped to make this year's event far more inclusive of the greater LGBTQI+ community.
The Bill has gone back and forth between Parliament and the Department of Justice since it was introduced in 2018.
With some of the world's most progressive LGBTQ+ laws, South Africa attracts queer migrants from the continent escaping prosecution and homophobia. Yet gay rights are often only protected on paper. Many queer migrants say South Africa is more close-minded than they expected.
The 'Podcast and Chill' series is also at the centre of a public furore, following rape allegations against their latest guest rapper and TV presenter Molemo ‘Jub Jub’ Maarohanye.
Institutions of learning should act decisively against those in their midst who act in a homophobic manner. A teachers’ union has taken up the cause on behalf of a bi-gender educator.
Choruses of "Chelsea rent boy" -- aimed at Billy Gilmour who is on loan at Norwich from the Champions League holders -- could be heard emanating from the away fans section.
Qwelane penned an article in the Sunday Sun newspaper in 2008 titled: 'Call Me Names – But Gay Is Not Ok'.
Government and civil society groups have met to discuss the hate crimes.
European football's governing body said in a statement it was investigating 'potential discriminatory incidents' in the Puskas Arena during Hungary's 3-0 defeat to Portugal on Tuesday and the 1-1 draw with France on Saturday.
In the latest incident, a woman was killed in Khayelitsha last weekend.
Matuba Mahlatjie says he cannot believe it's only now in 2021 that he is reflecting on the past trauma of having nowhere to belong.
The most recent incident in Cape Town is the murder of 22-year-old Lonwabo Jack who was found stabbed to death just over a week ago.
Lonwabo Jack was murdered on his birthday last weekend in Nyanga. A 17-year-old boy's been taken into custody in the Eerste River area.
Police on Wednesday apprehended a 17-year-old boy in connection with the murder of 22-year-old Lonwabo Jack.
Lonwabo Jack (22) was assaulted and stabbed to death in Nyanga on his birthday on Sunday.