Grammy Award-winning artist Lil Nas X has been honoured with the inaugural Suicide Prevention Advocate of the Year Award by The Trevor Project. The organisation is the world’s largest suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer & questioning (LGBTQ) young people. In a statement, The Trevor Project stated that Lil…
Film lovers in Lagos will get a chance to watch 7 films exploring queerness in Black African and diasporic contexts in creative and experimental ways. Titled Queer Celluloid, the event is organised by Monangambee, a nomadic Pan-African microcinema in Lagos that seeks to engage Black continental and diasporic filmmakers, as well as Third Cinema, and…
For World Pride 2021, The Other Foundation partnered with Workplace Pride to hold a town hall session to discuss the importance of making organisations across the continent LGBT+ friendly. The conversation strived to bring an African voice and perspective to the global conversation about how the workplace can be leveraged for greater impact in LGBT+…
For the first time in the history of Pan Africa ILGA, a Refugee Pre-Conference was held as part of the 2021 edition of one of the biggest LGBT+ focussed conferences on the African continent. The pre-conference titled ‘Looking for a place to call home’ explored issues that African LGBTIQ+ refugees face in refugee camps and…
The National AIDS Memorial Surviving Voices storytelling initiative has finally released their mini-documentary, “Substance Users, the Recovery Community & AIDS” following exclusive screenings at two LGBTQ+ film festivals – Frameline45 and SF Queer Film Fest 2021. The project was recognized for its powerful work in helping tell the story of AIDS through the voices of…
A broad coalition of African lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, questioning and intersex (LGBTQI+) activists, continental grassroots organizations and allies are preparing for the second Pan African Virtual Pride. Inaugurated last year during the pandemic lockdown, Pride Afrique returns this year once again as a virtual platform to celebrate and uplift LGBTQI+ persons and groups across…
It’s a sad thing that every queer person has to go through internalized homophobia before realizing that they are indeed what they are – Queer. I did, she did too. Questions beg for answers and this question had a body and eyes that begged to be answered to. “Will you be my best friend?” Her…
Lebanon’s queer communities have few safe spaces left and have been among the hardest hit by the combined impacts of the 2020 Beirut blast, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the ongoing economic crisis, new Oxfam research warned today. The combination of crises has destroyed entire neighbourhoods where queer people had found refuge over the last decade….
MTV and All Out, a global movement for love and equality, has announced the winners of the organization’s first-ever international LGBT+ photography competition that sought submissions in three categories that tracked the lives and experiences of LGBT+ people through the pandemic: Resisting, Supporting and Healing. The winners and runners-up are as follows: Resisting: Winner: Cansu…
The Constitution of Kenya provides everyone with the right to the highest attainable standards of health care including Reproductive health. However Lesbians, Gays, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ+) Persons and Community still face pockets of stigma and discrimination in the public health sector. Unfortunately, Sexual and gender minorities have been denied healthcare services because of…
Some LGBT persons like to pride themselves by saying “I have so and so persons who know about my sexuality and they are absolutely okay with it.” Fine. Absolutely fine. For most, it becomes exquisitely comfortable to find that some aspect of their lives has become accepted by someone else. I mean, there is a…
Lights, Camera, Identity… Never Alone is a new comic created with LGBTQIA+ teens in mind and with the hope of supporting them and people from all walks of life as they discover and embrace their own unique identities. It features four popular RuPaul’s Drag Race personalities as a mentoring heroes; Pandora Boxx, Silky Nutmeg Ganache,…
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