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Woolworths’s turnover in South Africa was around R85 billion last year. It is the preferred store for the middle class for clothes and food. (Halden Krog/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Woolies’s gay pride range: solidarity or profit?

Supporting the LGBTIQA+ community involves more than merely putting rainbows on clothes

Place of Pride: The modern-day Johannesburg Pride march held at Melrose Arch and surrounds has more of a commercial party atmosphere than that of the more political inaugural march in 1990 (Oupa Nkosi)

Catch Jo’burg Pride before it falls

The founders of the annual march are disillusioned with its commercial flavour

Frank Lileza (Renata Larroyd)

Slice of Life: Red lipstick was the key

‘On my way to that Pride — my first ever — I bought this gorgeous red lipstick’

Tarnished rainbow: Mauritius’s queer communities are feeling rattled after Pride march organisers received 126 death threats in the run-up to this year’s event in Port Louis

Mauritius: Paradise for who?

Attacks on queer activists from religious fundamentalists call the island’s tolerance into question as Pride is cancelled

Last week the commission, chaired by Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo, heard evidence of how the utility allegedly supported the Guptas’ mining interests. (Paul Botes/M&G)

Taking a walk in Princess’s shoes as she preens for the Pretoria Parade

Peer educators from Wits provide a vital service for sex workers and men who have sex with men

Purposeful pride: People participating in Swedish Pride in Stockholm.

Africa’s queer asylum seekers in search of land of milk and honey

Sweden and South Africa are popular destinations for LGBTQ refugees, but both countries are far from perfect

Film-maker Bev Ditsie at Industry in Maboneng

Pride people, ‘wake the fuck up’

Gender and political activist Bev Ditsie talks about how unspoken sexual violence and silenced narratives obscure queer history in South Africa.

Participants hold rainbow flags during the Gay Pride parade in Entebbe

LGBTI people in Uganda under threat, but undeterred

Despite the government’s efforts to criminalise them, and the spike in lynchings and violence, people’s spirit hasn’t been broken.

As dry conditions and high temperatures persist, there are growing concerns about the spring and summer crops that will be harvested later this year. (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)

Cape Town Pride must celebrate true diversity

The annual parade in the Mother City misses the point: it should be inclusive of all persuasions, classes and races, writes Nyx McLean.

Shamed: San Francisco Pride marchers protest against Facebook’s policy on using ‘anonymous’ names.

Furious Faeries flay Facebook

The social network’s policy on anonymity is angering people who have taken new names.

The Cape Town Pride is too white

Whiteness on the march: An open letter to Cape Town Pride

Cape Town Pride can’t claim to be returning to the rainbow if it is only taking a few community members along. Charging for events is prohibitive.

Cyprus holds first gay pride parade

Thousands marched for gay rights in the capital of Nicosia despite a counter-demonstration by conservative Christians and clerics.

Patron saint: Randlord Sir Lionel Phillips and Lady Florence had their portraits painted by Giovanni Boldini. A smaller version of Portrait of Lady Phillips is in the South African National Gallery

Olympians march in Pride parade as Sochi outrage mounts

Canadian Olympians will march in a pride parade in solidarity with the gay community that could land them in jail or kicked out of the Sochi Olympics.

VIDEO Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula’s controversial CAR comments

Weekend 101: Kisses and sweeties in the CAR

VIDEO Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula’s controversial CAR comments, North Korea threatens nuclear action and Jo’burg Pride is no more.

‘Queer is my power’

‘Queer is my power’, say Hong Kong gay pride marchers

More than 2 000 people have marched in Hong Kong’s gay pride parade, as campaigners called for the enactment of laws to ban discrimination against hom

Tremendous tackiness

Tremendous tackiness

Apart from challenging conventional sexual categories, Pride’s most outrageous performers question the beautiful.

Controversy does little to temper gay pride

Controversy does little to temper gay pride

Thousands marched in Prague at the climax of the first gay pride festival in the Czech capital, defying a fine drizzle and counter demonstrations.

Dutch military leads the way in gay pride

Dutch military leads the way in gay pride

Embracing a policy of "Do Tell," the Dutch military joined Amsterdam’s annual Gay Pride parade for the first time.

Thousands march against gay discrimination

Thousands took part in Africa’s biggest Gay Pride event in Johannesburg on Saturday, aimed at drawing attention to the persecution of homosexuals.

Gay Pride body rejects Sunday Sun apology

The Sunday Sun‘s ”half-hearted” apology for publishing a column disparaging of gay people was ”inadequate”, a gay organisation says.