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2 min read In recognition of Pride Month, a world-renowned Christian school in South Africa has flown the rainbow flag from the top of the school’s bell tower. St John’s College in Johannesburg is a world-class Christian, African school founded in 1898 and for the second year running the school has raised the rainbow flag.

Students at St John’s College Christian boys’ school raising the rainbow flag

Aubrey Boshoga is the 11th LGBTIQ+ person murdered in the last few months

Dozens of members of the LGBTIQ+ community gathered at Johannesburg’s Constitution Hill on Wednesday night for a moving candlelight vigil to honour the victims of hate.

Louw Breytenbach is Mr Gay World South Africa 2021

Naman Ramachandran “Luther” star Idris Elba will host the Africa Day Concert, an event which is a partnership between him, MTV Base and YouTube.The virtual concert, which will be held on Africa Day (May 25), is set to be a pan-African event, with artists performing on multiple stages from Lagos to Johannesburg in an event that will be streamed to a global audience on YouTube and broadcast across MTV channels.Performers include South Africa’s Elaine, one of the continent’s most-streamed artists,

Dimakatso Mathetha was a proudly LGBTIQ+ woman

ACDP supporters in Cape Town (left) and LGBTIQ+ activists in Johannesburg (Facebook)

The longstanding FADER Mix series presents new, exclusive DJ mixes from our favorite artists and producers. As one half of JazziDisciples, Johannesburg-based producer and DJ Mr.

Q is a new queer networking event in Johannesburg

The late Dr Sindi van Zyl

Christopher Vourlias When Joel Phiri and his partners at Known Associates Entertainment began financing “uBettina Wethu,” the South African remake of the megahit Colombian telenovela that inspired the ABC series “Ugly Betty,” the Johannesburg-based producer says, “We talked to anybody that would listen.”That those talks would involve both local and global streaming services was a given.

A post shared by Ashley Judd (@ashley_judd)The doctor at the Johannesburg hospital, she said, "was super at stabilizing my leg with the external fixator until the massive soft tissue damage and swelling went down so that I could have the Big Operation. What he did was significant and I am forever in his debt."On Feb.

Bharat Mahajan, a 28-year-old mental health services manager working on the frontlines of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, was on Sunday crowned Mr Gay New Zealand 2021.The winner of Mr Gay New Zealand will have the chance to represent the country at the Mr Gay World competiton that is scheduled to take place in Johannesburg later this year.Mahajan from the town of Thames was judged the winner at the Ending HIV Big Gay Out event, just hours before Auckland went into a level three lockdown

EXCLUSIVE: AMC Networks streamers Sundance Now and UMC have inked a deal for the North American, Caribbean, Canadian, and UK rights to South African horror series Dead Places.

Rangers boardroom When Dave King suddenly resurfaced as the Pied Piper on Tuesday it’s fair to say the directors he left behind were far from amused by the former chairman’s latest bull in a china shop cameo.

Christopher Vourlias From its 2018 launch in Johannesburg as an industry event rooted in the local community, the Africa Rising Intl.

Christopher Vourlias As a young, Black woman growing up in Soweto, the sprawling township built by South Africa’s apartheid government on the outskirts of Johannesburg, Lala Tuku had dreams of making movies. But after making inroads into the local industry in the mid-2000s, she found her path to the director’s chair blocked.

Congratulations to Dr Mmamontsheng Dulcy Rakumakoe, an inspiring member of the LGBTQ community, who’s won the prestigious 2020 Santam Woman of the Future award.

The start of Pride Month in Gauteng was marked with the raising of the LGBTIQ+ Rainbow Flag at Johannesburg’s Constitution Hill on a cloudy and chilly Friday morning.

If you fancy yourself representing the LGBTQ community internationally, now’s the time to enter the Mr Gay World South Africa 2020 contest.

Trevor Noah discusses life under quarantine and why he’ll never “complain” about the pandemic.

With Dolby On, artists don’t need professional equipment to record richer, studio-quality performances. Last month, we challenged FADER readers to use the mobile app to perform an original song from home.

The lives and livelihoods of transgender and gender-diverse individuals have been devastated because Home Affairs has deemed vital gender-affirming services not “essential” during the lockdown.

Beefcakes, one of South Africa’s premier LGBTQ and bachelorette party venues has been unable to open its doors due to the strict lockdown rules imposed by the government.

In May, Def Jam launched Def Jam Africa, a new division based in Johannesburg, South Africa, and Lagos, Nigeria focused on the continent's hip-hop, Afrobeats and trap talent. Just two months later, the division is expanding into three new markets in French-speaking Africa: Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal and Cameroon. The expansion brings additional A&R, marketing and digital resources to parent Universal

Christopher Vourlias Moonyeenn Lee, the acclaimed South African agent and casting director who cast films such as the foreign-language Oscar winner “Tsotsi” and Oscar-nominated “Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom,” died in Johannesburg on Saturday due to coronavirus-related complications. She was 76.Lee’s company, Moonyeenn Lee & Associates, announced the news in a statement on its Facebook page on Sunday.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorVeteran South African casting director and agent Moonyeenn Lee has died aged 76 in Johannesburg, following complications from the coronavirus.Lee worked for almost five decades in the industry, building a formidable and illustrious career working on movies including The Bang Bang Club, Disgrace, Oscar-winner Tsotsi, Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom, Machine Gun Preacher, Hotel Rwanda, Blood Diamond, Eye In The Sky, Mandela And De Klerk, Life, Above All and Black

A new initiative, called the Global Diversity Pride Network, has been launched with the aim of ensuring that people of colour and others who have been marginalised and excluded are empowered and included in the global LGBTQ+ community.