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Fever dream: Maneo Mohale has written Everything is a Deathly Flower as a way to tell her story. One of the themes she grapples with is using terminology inherited from the Global North. (Andile Buka)

Creating poetry out of violence

Maneo Mohale speaks about the silence around queer sexual abuse and how she creates beauty

Queer-essential: Carl Collison gave LGBTI people a voice. (Delwyn Verasamy M&G)

Africa needs to hear queer stories

For the past three years, Carl Collison has reported on LGBTI issues and stories for the Mail & Guardian, covering queer peoples’ lives

Vet them: Luke Lamprecht, a child protection and development specialist, blames state structures for not setting up adequate procedures and policies to shield children from abuse. (Oupa Nkosi)

Check coaches at the school gates

Without proper vetting, paedophiles can get into places where they have ‘unfettered’ access to vulnerable children

(David Harrison/M&G)

Slice of life: These women still shape me

Those women I know and those in the taxi whom I don’t — and how they shaped me

A group of ballerinas rehearse for a memorial for three young people in the Cape Flats. (David Harrison/ M&G)

Drag queen’s push against gangs

In Lavender Hill, one of South Africa’s most violence-ridden areas, an unlikely activist is finding ways to keep children out of trouble

Holy pursuit: Every year, Christians and Muslims undertake an often weeks-long pilgrimage to the village of Namugongo (Carl Collison)

Walking Uganda’s martyrs’ route

This year, two million pilgrims descended on a Ugandan village to celebrate a display of courage

Transgender author Landa Mabenge featured as this week’s #EFFManCrushMonday. (Image via Facebook)

The ‘big three’ vie for queer voters in their election manifestos

‘Whether LGBTIQ people vote for the DA or the Kiss Party or whoever, we need to see LGBTIQ people involved in political spaces’

NG Kerk in Stellenbosch. (David Harrison/M&G)

Court to clarify NG Kerk queer ruling

The court overturned the policy that queer clergy have to be celibate and that barred the church’s clergy from officiating at same-sex marriages

‘Hope is a lie’: Brazilian singer Mel has embraced African-derived religions because ‘they are all about love’.

Fighting the ‘whiteness’ of hope

A Brazilian trans woman has faith in Umbanda and Candomblé, two African-derived religions

Forward in faith: Mogamat Benjamin is a devout Muslim who believes others should accept him for who he is: a proud gay man. (David Harrison/M&G)

The Muslims who will not choose between their god and being gay

Cape Town’s gay men won’t abandon Islam, despite the censure they sometimes face

A 2016 study by the organisation found that 44% of LGBTI people surveyed said they had experienced discrimination in the previous two years, and 88% hadn’t reported these incidents.  (Reuters)

Legal clinic is empowering queer communities

The centre is an offshoot of the organisation’s three-year, anti-hate crime initiative

Alternatives: Founders Maurício Sacramento (left) and Wesley Miranda shaped the Batekoo movement from a single birthday party, when they planned to host ‘a black party, with black DJs’ in Salvador. (Felipe Gabriel)

Be your queer black self in Brazil

A monthly party sees crowds of up to 50 000 letting their hair down in São Paulo and other cities

Condragulations: About 40 people from around the Western Cape nervously flapped in the dressing room over eyelashes, wigs and sequinned outfits but once on the stage they calmly strutted their stuff. Photo: David Harrison

Queens of the night answer their calling

Drag is about much more than just the fanfare and costumes —it is also about self-realisation and affirmation

Not him: Brazilians demonstrate against right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro. Photo: Pablo Albarenga/ Getty Images

São Paulo’s only ‘faggot house’ survives Bolsonaro

The election of Brazil’s right-wing president has let loose his followers’ queerphobia

Sir: Testosterone injections have changed Germain de Larch’s life. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Hormone drug shortage forces desperate solutions

Depo-Testosterone has been out of stock since December last year, possibly increasing the risk of serious physical and mental health problems

Certain sections of the penal code impose a maximum sentence of seven years imprisonment for consensual same-sex relations. (John McCann/M&G)

High Court rules church’s anti-queer policy unlawful

The Pretoria high court this morning overturned a decision by the Dutch Reformed Church forcing queer clergy to be celibate

(John McCann)

Rapists back at school with victims

Families say the Western Cape education department doesn’t care about their children’s wellbeing

(Baz Ratner, Reuters)

‘Justice denied’ as Kenya high court postpones ruling on same-sex relations

The challenge to the constitutionality of section 162 of the Penal Code was brought before the court by Kenyan human rights activists

Making their voices heard: Mpho Buntse works for the ANC-aligned Embrace Diversity Political Movement. (Delwyn Verasamy)

Bid to queer SA’s political arena

There’s a move to equip LGBTIQ people with skills to become leaders and decision-makers

Columns: Author Herman Lategan writes about the colourful characters of the Sea Point of the 1970s, where he grew up and still lives.

The real Afrikaans experience

‘People are generally so fucken switched off’ – how Lategan puts readers into his characters’ shoes