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Thami Dish and Miss South Africa Ndavi Nokeri were among those who helped raise the rainbow flag in Johannesburg

There’s outrage after 34-year-old lesbian-identifying Tankiso Tawanyane was raped and murdered in Kimberley in a monstrous suspected hate crime.

The magical city of Lisbon will host EuroPride in 2025 (Photo: Deensel / Wikimedia)

The Pretoria-based OUT LGBT-Well Being is raising funds to ensure that Steve Hofmeyr faces the Equality Court and accounts for his dangerous anti-LGBTIQ+ rhetoric.

Delegates from around the world have started arriving in Cape Town as they prepare to compete for the coveted Mr Gay World 2022 title.

Life’s too short to spend it in the closet! It’s a phrase that’s often bandied about when talking about coming out as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or queer (LGBTQ+).

Pretoria Pride once again took over the Centurion Rugby Club for the 2022 edition of one of South Africa’s biggest queer gatherings.

Pretoria Pride once again took over the Centurion Rugby Club for the 2022 edition of one of South Africa’s biggest queer gatherings.

Out and proud goalkeeper Phuti Lekoloane is a champion of LGBTIQ+ inclusion in football (Photo: Daniel Hlongwane)

The 18th annual Soweto Pride brought together elements of protest and celebration to offer a day that embodied anger and sadness as well as profound joy and a vibrant sense of community.

Award-winning documentarian and activist Angelo Louw was the target of a homophobic group of men

Anold Mulaisho is a gay refugee from Zambia

The daughter of the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Mpho Tutu van Furth and her wife, Marceline

An LGBTIQ+ rights group in Malawi is taking the government to the Constitutional Court over its refusal to register the organisation.

MambaOnline recently caught up with Zimbabwean actor, Frank Malaba

Zambia says its values must be “defended” from LGBTI people “at any cost”

Botswana’s LGBTIQ+ community will be celebrated and visiblised at Gaborone Pride 2022, set to take place on Saturday the 1st of October.

The recently released queer horror film They/Them places queer fear and homophobia front and centre in a thrill-fest that’s also laced with laughs, and features an emotional storyline that’ll hit home for many members of the LGBTQI+ community.

MambaOnline.com is South Africa’s longest-running LGBTIQ+ news and lifestyle online platform. We wish to contract a queer content writer / creator / journalist based in Johannesburg for a fixed-term three-month project (Oct-Dec 2022).

South Africa’s queer community is remembering vibrant actor, producer and former Yo-TV presenter Lumko ‘Johnson’ Leqela who has died at the age of 32.

The inclusion of a same-sex family in an episode of the popular children’s animated series Peppa Pig is simply too much to bear for some people.

Gay rodeos challenge longstanding notions of what it means to be a cowboy in America (Photo: Adam in Utah, 2019. By Luke Gilford)

South African queer celebrity parents are helping to normalise rainbow families

The Nyege Nyege Festival in Uganda attracts thousands of revellers from around the world (Photo: Nyege Nyege)

Fifteen-year-old LGBTIQ school learner Tiro Moalusi took his own life after being humiliated in class, allegedly by a teacher

Sareh was one of two LGBTIQ women sentenced to death in Iran

OUT LGBT Well-being in collaboration with MambaOnline publish a monthly overview of violations of the rights of LGBTIQ+ people in South Africa. We also look at the status of cases making their way through the criminal justice system. Here is our summary for August 2022.

As South Africa slides into spring, LGBTQ+ ally Tamara Dey and queer singer/songwriter Latheem have released two new dancefloor stompers.

15-year-old gay Soweto teen Tiro Moalusi took his own life allegedly after being humiliated in class

Saint Kitts and Nevis (Photo: Nesnad at English Wikipedia)