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While Pride Month is commemorated at different times across South Africa, the month of June carries particular significance as the original Pride Month in the Northern Hemisphere. File Photo

Between memory and forgiveness: A cross-continental love story

Blurb online A relationship that started in Ghana, and ended in South Africa, was shaped by privilege, fear and lessons learned about listening and resilience

n this handout picture released by the John Templeton Foundation shows the 2013 Templeton Prize Laureate, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu during the Templeton Prize ceremony at St. George’s Cathedral on April 11, 2013 in Cape Town. South Africa’s Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has been awarded the 2013 Templeton Prize by the US-based Templeton Foundation for his work in advancing spiritual principles such as love and forgiveness. (AFP PHOTO /TEMPLETON PRIZE / Ilan Godfrey)

Tutu’s dream of a church where all belong made real

Exclusion remains real for many LGBTIQ+ Christians – but there are committed activists trying to change that

Illustration: Inge Snip

East Africa’s ‘lucrative’ conversion therapy industry

A six-month investigation reveals ‘degrading and discriminatory’ treatment at health centres in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda

Reinaldo Arenas in France in June 1988. The writer believed homosexuality began to flourish in Cuba as a protest against Fidel Castro’s regime. (Louis Monier/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images)

‘Before Night Falls’: Reinaldo Arenas breaks down (in) Fidel Castro’s Cuba

Reinaldo Arenas’s memoir reveals the contradiction of a revolutionary society ruled by an autocrat

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EDITORIAL: Nigerian law is the criminal, not gay people

Social mores and prejudices forged in Lagos are echoed in the intimate spaces of people all over the continent

MPs must kill the anti-gay Bill in Uganda (Photo Archive)

MPs must kill the anti-gay Bill in Uganda

Proposed legislation imposes the death penalty for gay sex or ‘recruitment’. But love is not a crime

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Learning to live my truth as a gay person

I was 22 years old before I was open about my sexuality. I hope others won’t have to wait so long

A mixed bag for human rights in Southern Africa in 2019

Kenyan court due to rule on decriminalising same-sex relations

However, the LGBT community fears yet another postponement

Lost Boys alleges that apartheid-era ministers Magnus Malan and John Wiley, among others, were paedophiles who trafficked children — mostly boys of colour. (Leon Botha/Beeld)

Self-loathing and self-repression lead to the suppression of the “other”

New guidelines for psychological work with queer people will advance everyone’s mental health

Alistair King, Chief Creative Officer of the King James Group, addresses his staff at an #EqualityChallenge training led by the AAC earlier this year. (Photo: Czerina Patel)

Advertisers as allies in the struggle for LGBTIQ equality, representation, inclusion

SA advertisers are receiving training in how to positively portray the full spectrum of sexualities and genders in their adverts

Explaining: ANC chairperson Gwede Mantashe (centre) made the party’s first submission to the Zondo commission. (Masi Losi/Gallo Images/Sowetan)

Is education the answer to shifting attitudes towards homosexuality in Botswana?

Developing countries have not made the protection of LGBQTI rights a priority, but the more educated people are, the more tolerant they are

Loud and clear: A billboard in Lilongwe

Malawi to halt prosecutions against LGBTI community

Malawi says it will no longer enforce anti-homosexuality laws but dangerous homophobia persists on the country’s streets – and in its clinics.

Nakhane Touré stars in  ‘Inxeba – The Wound’.

​Actor Nakhane Touré fends off hate speech over controversial new film

‘The Wound’ tackles the unspoken issue of sexuality and tradition in a film about Xhosa initiates.

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

Mozambique scraps colonial-era homosexuality ban

A new penal code came into force on Monday, decriminalising homosexuality which was banned under ancient Portugese colonial laws.

The science behind a more meaningful understanding of sexual orientation

This article is part of a series The Conversation Africa is running on issues related to LGBTI in Africa.

The Academy of Sciences report gives a very solid scientific refutation of the kinds of arguments used to whip up homophobia and hatred in some African countries

‘Un-African’ sex myths exploded

A groundbreaking local scientific study has found that homosexuality is completely normal.

Gay poll: Irish could go either way

Surveys favour a yes vote in the referendum but activists fear the public may yet spring a shock defeat.

Done with hiding in the bathroom: Demelza Bush has come to terms with the fact that she is neither a man or a woman.

Genderqueer: Existing outside the binary

When Demelza Bush was a little girl, she knew she wasn’t. And they weren’t a boy either.

Samthing Soweto album cover Eb’suku.

When cinema casts gay desire as deviant behaviour

A former wrestler’s furious response to his portrayal in the Oscar-nominated film underscores society’s resistance to sexual difference.

Nigeria’s Same Sex Marriage

Egypt gays live in fear under Sisi regime

"There is a constant fear and anxiety. I never had this kind of feeling in my life. Now you are afraid in your own home," says a gay man in Egypt.