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We’re Queer my Dear (WQMD) – the acclaimed, informative, and empowering LGBTIQA+ online web series – returns for its third season.

LGBTIQ+ Norwegians gathered for a “spontaneous” Oslo Pride march following Saturday’s deadly shooting (Photos: Anna Riksaasen)

Two people were killed in the horror attack on patrons of the London Pub on the eve of Oslo Pride (Photo: www.travelgay.com)

Muhsin Hendricks is said to be the world’s first openly gay imam. (Photo: Richard Finn Gregory)

Several groups in Ghana are challenging the government’s unlawful arrest and detention of 21 LGBTI activists and community members last year.

A series of free and very topical queer workshops are being held in Durban as part of the city’s Durban Pride commemorations.

Durban Pride 2019 (Pic: Joy Khumalo)

Fina, swimming’s international governing body, has announced a controversial new policy that will ban transgender swimmers from competing under the gender that they identify with.

A new report published by FIFA has found that professional footballers are faced with a shocking amount of homophobic and racist abuse on social media.

DA MP Manny de Freitas believes that South Africa would benefit from an increase in LGBTQI+ tourism

Victor Madrigal-Borloz the UN Independent Expert on SOGI

A screaming Refiloe Malope was shoved into the boot of a car (Photo: SAPS)

One of Netflix’s best performing shows, Heartstopper was released to global audiences on the streaming platform in April.

Emanuel Mouers was stabbed to death in a suspected hate crime

We’re Queer my Dear (WQMD), the acclaimed, informative, and empowering LGBTIQA+ online web series returns for its third season.

The bubbly gay teen was bullied at school and in his community (Photos: supplied)

The Rainbow Social is back on Sat 18 June (Pics: Siphokazi Marivate)

We’re Queer my Dear (WQMD), the acclaimed, informative, and empowering LGBTIQA+ online web series returns for its third season.

Ruth Chigowe leaves behind a one-year-old daughter

While the international monkeypox outbreak has yet to reach South Africa, there are concerns that the disease is being used to stigmatise gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (MSM).

For the first time, the rainbow flag has been flown on Robben Island where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 18 years.

Apparent divisions within the LGBTQI+ community came to the fore at a reception for the southern African Kopano gathering in Cape Town as some protested the City’s involvement with the event.

Parents and guardians are often unsure of how to broach the subject of sexuality, gender and queer identities with children, not least because this might in some way open the door to talk to them about sex. That’s a topic so notoriously uncomfortable that we still refer to this discussion as talking about “the birds and the bees”, despite being two decades into the 21st century.

The Pretoria-based OUT LGBT Well-being says it is alarmed at ongoing reports that gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (MSM) are falling prey to kidnappers and extortionists on dating and networking apps.

FEW (Forum for the Empowerment of Women) is holding a Queer Book Fair on Saturday 14 May at Constitution Hill in Johannesburg.

Participants in the 2019 Kyiv Pride march in Ukraine (Pic: Kyiv Pride / Victor Vysochin / @arrideo.photography)

It’s not every day that we see a South African, queer, dystopian-sci-fi novel hitting bookstore shelves. The fact that it’s also a gripping, poignant and timely book is further cause for celebration.

After 12 years of operation, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, known by its patrons as Babylon – The Joburg Bar, remains one of the city’s most enduring and popular destinations for queer and LGBTQIA-friendly nightlife.

In his first visit to SA in more than two years, queer superstar Nakhane will be performing at Constitution Hill in Johannesburg on the 21st of May 2022 for the I AM LIVE concert.

Twenty-seven-year-old Shanon Kannigan will be formally inducted as the new Mr Gay World South Africa at the upcoming Pink Loerie Mardi Gras and Arts Festival in association with ETC Zone Centurion and Men International.