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Jonas Gahr Støre, the Prime Minister of Norway (Photo: NTB Kommunikasjon/Office of the Prime Minister)

Vogue Nights returned with its first ball of the year, confirming that it remains Johannesburg’s most spectacular queer event.

LGBTIQ+ microaggressions can take their toll

Jude Law (Dumbledore) and Mads Mikkelsen (Grindelwald) play former lovers in Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

I recently found myself part of a group process developing a resource around addressing xenophobia and Afrophobia and looking at the rights of refugees and asylum seekers. This work has exposed me to young people on the continent and their ideas around addressing these issues.

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) is taking action against singer Steve Hofmeyr over his dangerous queerphobic hate speech.

MonD aka The Queer Superhero (All photos by @Remy Shoots)

Photos, paintings and sculptures by artist Zanele Muholi have been a hit in Paris

Activists have welcomed the sentencing of two Gauteng men to life in prison for the hate crime rape of a 19-year-old lesbian woman in 2020.

LGBTQ+ groups are furious over reports that the UK government is planning to only ban conversion therapy for cisgender gay, lesbian and bi people and exclude those who are transgender.

The Western Cape beach town of Plettenberg Bay is hosting the inaugural Lovefest, with four days of queer entertainment.

Three days of public hearings about the controversial Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill kicked off on Tuesday.

When Ako* heard that an LGBTIQ community centre was going to open in the Ghanaian capital, Accra, the first thing she did was get herself a date. And then matching outfits.

Pinky Shongwe had her life cut short in a suspected hate crime because of who she loved

Anthony Waldhausen, the outgoing director of Uthingo Network, and its new head, Brian Sibeko-Ngidi

Moshe Ndiki and Phelo Bala. (Twitter)

Jussie Smollett (Pic: Shutterstock.com)

Brittney Griner (Photo by Lorie Shaull)

A lesbian couple have succeeded in their legal bid to amend the Children’s Act so that they are both recognised as legal parents of their surrogate babies.

Phillip Lühl and his husband Guillermo Delgado outside the Namibia Supreme Court (Pic: Power Pad Girls / Twitter)

Contested Bodies explores themes of power, race, gender identity and masculinity

Queer men in Johannesburg are being warned about an increase in kidnapping and extortion incidents after the victims arranged to meet men through dating apps like Grindr.

Hundreds of revellers came out to celebrate Cape Town’s LGBTIQ+ community on Saturday (Photo: MambaOnline/Ramsey Lewis)

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has sparked fears about the safety of LGBTIQ people in the country, with the US warning of a human rights catastrophe.

Star Trek Discovery features several LGBTQ characters

Amid reports of discrimination against transgender and non-binary school pupils, activists are calling for national non-discriminatory uniform guidelines.

Transgender woman Maha al-Mutairi was jailed in October 2021 for “imitating the opposite sex” in Kuwait

More Americans than ever are identifying as LGBT, with a significant 7.1% of the population now saying that they are part of this community.

Lil Nas X embodies camp in his music video for Montero (Call Me By Your Name)