GLAAD, the world’s largest LGBTQ media advocacy organization, announced that it will honor multi-platinum, Grammy Award-winning pop icon Britney Spears at the 29th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles at Beverly Hilton on Thursday, April 12, 2018. The GLAAD Media Awards honor media for fair, accurate, and inclusive representations of LGBTQ people and issues. The GLAAD…
Nigerian activist Bisi Alimi was a guest on the Loose Talk Podcast with the Steve Dede and AOT2. In this episode they explore his journey and gay rights in Nigeria. Listen to the very informative episode below.
Uzodinma Iweala is set to release a new book in March. Titled ‘Speak No Evil,’ the book will what it means to be queer and be a Nigerian through the eyes of Niru; a gay top student and track star raised in Washington D.C. but born to Nigerian parents. According to a summary…
Voting has started in the 2018 edition of the British LGBT Awards and Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, Edward Enninful and Demi Lovato are some of the nominees for the 2018 edition. The event that will hold on the 11th of May aims to celebrate the UK’s most loved LGBT personalities, innovators and companies and has been dubbed the…
All Out has started a petition in conjunction with the Hate Crimes Working Group – South Africa to help push forward South Africa’s hate crimes bill. Information in the petition states that perpetrators of hate crimes against LGBT people in South Africa often go unpunished; adding that the Department of Justice has promised to enact…
One thing you find when you look at most people’s profiles on gay dating apps be it Tinder or Grindr, are their supposed preferences (‘no fats’, ‘no femmes’, ‘whites only’ etc.), followed by ‘sorry its just a preference’ or ‘no offence just my preference.’ Many people tend to think that merely classifying something as…
The #ImYourAlly Campaign, a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) advocacy project is set to bring LGBT issues in South Africa on the national agenda and dialogue this year with an impressive and expansive year-long programme. The campaign, which is an advocacy project by Kei Media, a LGBT-focused company, seeks to create ALLIES around the…
Being queer and Christian is something many Christians struggle with and a lot of times it is hard for them to balance it. In this TEDx Talk, David Norse shares his journey to self realisation and how he reconciled being a gay man and also being Christian. He is the first openly gay man to…
I am a Nigerian and to a reasonable extent, one who is in the know of what’s obtainable in this country I’ve come to know as home. In light of this, I should not be shocked at some of the stories I hear but on that day when a good friend of mine on this…
Laverne Cox will receive the Special Excel Pride Trailblazer Award for her artistry and advocacy as an Equal Rights Activist in the Transgender Community at the My True Colors Festival. The Excel Pride Awards pay homage to community, business and civic leaders who are champions of social justice, the arts and LGBTQIA+ rights plus entertainment industry…
I. Imagine this; You are on a fairly occupied danfo bus where bodies haven’t begun to stymie the freedom of using your phone. It could be a taxi though or even a BRT, really any arrangement that will allow you to lean back or rest your head on the age browned window sill -which ever…
Critically acclaimed film The Wound (Inxeba) stays winning. The award winning film received 8 nominations at the South African Film and Television Awards including Best Directing, Best Feature Film and Best Actor – Feature Film for Nakhane. However, the opening of the film in South Africa has been followed with protests and cancellation at some…
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