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Vogue Nights Jozi, the city’s most influential queer party, took local ball culture to a whole new level on the last weekend of Pride Month.

Government, civil society and EU representatives will be discussing how to ensure equality for transgender and intersex South Africans at a historic event in Johannesburg this week.

The UK is moving closer to a ban on LGBTQ conversion therapy after the government launched a “consultation” on how best to make it illegal.

As South Africa marked Pride Month, Limakatso Puling was shot dead in Durban

The first Pride March in Africa took place in Johannesburg in 1990. (Pic: David Penney/Donne Rundle Collection/GALA Queer Archive)

It seems like the “alphabet mafia” is always expanding our community’s vocabulary to be more inclusive, and one of the latest additions to the glossary is abrosexuality – a term that you may not have heard of as yet.

Before and after: The LGBTIQ billboard was vandalised just days after it was erected in Zimbabwe 

Nedbank, one of South Africa’s leading banks, shows its support for Pride Month by lighting up its Joburg office in rainbow colours and committing funds to LGBTQI+ causes.

The Drizzles puppet show promotes LGBTQ inclusion

To celebrate Johannesburg Pride Month, Apple Music has enlisted three South African artists to take over their flagship Pride Playlists: Strike A Pose, RESIST!, and Love Her, Lover.

As South Africa marks Pride Month, local streaming service Showmax has highlighted 12 LGBTQIA+ shows and movies now on its platform that are worth watching – with Pride.

The High Court in Eswatini is accused of “disinterest in the human rights of LGBTI citizens” after delaying a vital equality ruling for a year.

Skeef: Wat jy van LGBTIQ-wees wil weet is a new addition to the South African literary landscape, and the book has been making waves in the Afrikaans-speaking queer community since its release on 1 September.

Zimasile Zubair Shabangu was murdered in a suspected hate crime in Johannesburg

Does the Bible condemn homosexuality? Not according to a new publication that helps Christians understand the Bible in a more LGBTIQ-affirming way.

Justice and Correctional Services Minister Ronald Lamola spoke at the LGBTIQ+ Inclusion and Empowerment Workshop on Wednesday (Photo: Thami Dish Foundation)

Guillermo Delgado (left) and Phillip Lühl (right) with their lawyer Uno Katjipuka-Sibolile (centre) Photo: Namibia Equal Rights Movement

In celebration of Pride Month 2021, the Thami Dish Foundation, alongside various key stakeholders, has launched the 2021 LGBTIQ+ Inclusion & Empowerment Workshops set to take place at Constitution Hill in Johannesburg this week.

The film Benedetta is sparking controversy among conservative Catholics

With reports that so-called condom stealthing is on the rise, California has become the first state in the US to make the practice a civil crime.

Dating can be an exciting experience but what are the must-discuss topics for a first date?

Ankara Pride 2012 participants in Turkey

Andile Zondi was left with head and facial injuries after he and a friend were attacked by a mob in a suspected hate crime in Durban

Shane Petzer, best known as one of the founders of sex worker advocacy group Sweat, has passed away in Barrydale in the Western Cape.

In the spirit of Pride, the Market Theatre is bringing live drag performances back to Jozi. Newtown will come ablaze with the House of Pink Volume 1 drag show for three nights only!

Khanyi Mbau, Rich Mnisi, Roché Kester, and couple Tumelo Mmusi and Sylvester Chauke are among the 2021 Feather Awards nominees

Yaya Mavundla, photographed by Thembela “Terra” Dick.

Social media star Bretman Rock has been revealed as the first out gay man to wear the full iconic bunny suit and ears on the cover of Playboy.

The Botswana High Court is set to hear a bid by the government to restore the country’s former ban on same-sex sexuality, but activists remain hopeful.

The Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) has invited members of the public and civil society organisations to give feedback on areas of intervention to achieve LGBTI+ equality in South Africa.

The Pride Rainbow Flag was raised at Constitution Hill in Johannesburg to mark the official start of Pride Month in South Africa.

Scotland has become the first country in the world to nationally embed LGBT inclusive education across the school curriculum.

South African social justice activist and documentarian Angelo Louw

OUT’s clinic has been located at three different sites in Pretoria over the years

Same-sex marriage is now legal in 30 countries after almost two-thirds of voters in Switzerland give their approval to marriage equality.

Soweto Pride marked its 17th year on Saturday with a scaled-down edition held under the theme of “safety, justice, freedom are our rights”.